Backend Engineer
Posted 9 Apr 2026
Advertised as “Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
No salary listed for this role.
Who We Are:
Aviatrix® is pioneering the Cloud Native Security Fabric — the architecture the Containment Era requires. The Cloud Native Security Fabric governs every workload communication path across every cloud, every VPC, every Kubernetes cluster, and every serverless function, from a single policy plane. One rule. Universal propagation. Enforced at the workload, not at a chokepoint. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. For more information, visit aviatrix.ai.
About the Role - Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering
Aviatrix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) delivers the intelligence, network, and security services of Aviatrix's multi-cloud platform as a managed offering, built on modern microservices architecture. We're seeking a Staff Engineer for our SaaS Platform team to bring technical depth to backend engineering, contribute to distributed microservices and cloud-native infrastructure design on AWS, mentor junior engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, performance, and security.
Responsibilities
Architecture & Technical Contribution
- Own design and delivery of backend platform features, breaking down complex projects into scoped tasks
- Contribute to architecture discussions on scalability, fault tolerance, multi-tenancy, and operational simplicity
- Collaborate on core platform services using AWS-managed services (Aurora, MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse)
- Evaluate trade-offs on technology choices, system boundaries, and API contracts; write clear design docs
Backend Engineering Excellence
- Design high-performance microservices using gRPC, REST, and event-driven patterns (Golang preferred)
- Reinforce best practices for observability, resiliency, and SLO-driven operations
- Contribute to supportability (runbooks, diagnostics) and apply security best practices across service boundaries
- Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and incident retrospectives
Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and 1-on-1s
- Collaborate with Product Management; participate in on-call and incident RCA; support recruiting as needed
Requirements
Experience & Education
- 7+ years software engineering experience, with some mentoring experience