Senior Software Engineer

Upwind Security

About the role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team and work on a cross-platform security product. The role combines backend development, systems programming, and operating-system integrations, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production services and components in Go
• Build reliable and scalable backend functionality
• Work with operating-system APIs and cross-platform components
• Design and maintain APIs and communication between services
• Work with relational databases and persistent storage
• Troubleshoot complex production and system-level issues
• Participate in architecture and technical design decisions
• Write maintainable, well-tested production code

Requirements

• Strong production experience with Go
• Strong understanding of concurrency and multithreaded programming
• Experience building backend systems and APIs
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Good understanding of SQL, transactions, indexes, schema design and database performance
• Experience with long-running services, agents, daemons or desktop/system software
• Understanding of operating-system concepts: processes, IPC, permissions, filesystems and networking
• Experience with at least one of Windows, macOS or Linux system APIs
• Experience designing reliable distributed systems: retries, idempotency, failure handling and persistence
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Advantage

• Endpoint security / EDR experience
• Cross-platform development experience
• gRPC / Protobuf
• SQLite
• MDM platforms such as Intune or Jamf
• Code signing and software packaging
• Windows Services, launchd or systemd