Staff Backend Engineer (Go) - Build AI Safety and Governance Tools - High Growth SaaS Startup

Qualifications

• Strong experience writing production Go
• Clear understanding of distributed systems and scaling challenges
• Experience with microservices, containers, and cloud platforms
• Ability to design clean APIs and build services that stay reliable under load
• A practical engineer who likes to take ownership and think through problems
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL systems helps
• No up to date resume required

Responsibilities

• You would work on core backend services written in Go, build new features, and shape how their system handles performance, reliability, and safety
• You would partner closely with other engineers to ship real product, solve production issues, and make the platform stronger as usage grows

Full Description

This AI startup is building security and governance tools that help large companies use modern LLMs safely.

They sit at the intersection of backend engineering and real world AI adoption.

Their platform handles high traffic, fast decisions, and strict security needs, so they care a lot about engineers who can design and scale strong backend systems.

The team is small, sharp, and looking for a staff level Go engineer who wants to have a serious impact.

You would work on core backend services written in Go, build new features, and shape how their system handles performance, reliability, and safety.

You would partner closely with other engineers to ship real product, solve production issues, and make the platform stronger as usage grows.

What we're looking for:

• Strong experience writing production Go

• Clear understanding of distributed systems and scaling challenges

• Experience with microservices, containers, and cloud platforms

• Ability to design clean APIs and build services that stay reliable under load

• A practical engineer who likes to take ownership and think through problems

• Experience with SQL or NoSQL systems helps

This is the type of role where you get to influence architecture, own important pieces of the system, and help build a product that companies depend on as they adopt AI at scale.

Want to join a team that is building tools companies actually rely on and help shape how AI is used safely across the industry?

This is your chance.

No up to date resume required.