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Our AI Security team builds the backend systems that give enterprises real-time visibility and control over how their data flows into and out of LLMs, GenAI applications, and autonomous agents. We're looking for a Staff/Principal Backend Software Engineer to be one of the most senior technical voices on this team: an early contributor with substantial influence over the architecture of a new and rapidly evolving product line, solving multiple exciting technical challenges along the way.\nWhat you'll do\nArchitect, extend, and optimize a large-scale, highly scalable, fault-tolerant system that handles large graph datasets at enterprise scale processing billions of AI-related events from hundreds of thousands of endpoints in real time, with sub-second latency requirements.\n\nSet technical direction for how Cyberhaven secures data flowing into and out of AI models, GenAI applications, and agents, shaping architecture decisions that will define this product line for years to come.\n\nArchitect and implement security features that protect customer data end-to-end.\n\nSolve real-world scaling problems that require thorough performance analysis and troubleshooting.\n\nWork with a modern, constantly evolving microservices based stack including Go, Kubernetes, BigTable, BigQuery, Spanner, Redis, Docker, and Etcd.\n\nDesign and build connectors that integrate at the API level with SaaS and AI platforms commonly used in the enterprise (e.g. ChatGPT, Copilot, and other GenAI tools).\n\nWrite secure-by-design, hardened software that withstands real-world attacks while processing untrusted data and communicating with hundreds of thousands of endpoints over the internet.\n\nRaise the technical bar across the team through architecture reviews, mentorship of senior/staff engineers, and setting patterns others follow.\n\nWho you are\nYou have a strong track record building backends that are actively used at scale, and you've contributed significantly to and extended their architecture, not just shipped features.\n\nYou have deep, hands-on experience developing large applications in Go.\n\nYou've operated databases at very large scale. 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Cyberhaven traces the full lifecycle of your data, adapting protection to changing context, so protection moves with the way people actually work, not against it. AI Changed Work. We Protect It.\nBacked by $250M from leading investors like Khosla and Redpoint, our team includes leaders who built industry-defining technologies at CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, and more. This role lets you shape the future of data security, working alongside people driven to protect workflows, not just data, for customers who cannot afford to slow down to stay safe.\nAI Tools Disclosure: As part of Cyberhaven's hiring process, we use recruiting tools that include AI-powered features to help with tasks like scheduling, note-taking, workflow automation, and other recruiting activities (\"AI Tools\"). The AI Tools may process information you provide during the application and interview process. 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