Staff Engineer - Backend Engineering

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
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience on a SaaS/PaaS product with high-availability, multi-tenancy exposure; comfortable with ambiguity

Backend & Microservices

• Strong Golang preferred; production-grade gRPC microservices experience a plus
• Solid grasp of distributed systems (consistency, fault tolerance, service discovery, circuit breaking, back-pressure)
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, OS, and systems programming
• API design/versioning experience (REST and gRPC), backward compatibility

SaaS Platform & AWS Managed Services

• Experience with multi-tenancy and high-availability design patterns
• Familiarity with AWS-managed services (Aurora, MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse); event-driven systems (SQS, SNS) a plus

Production Deployment & Supportability

• Experience deploying/operating production services, release management, and operational readiness
• Understanding of observability, alerting, diagnostics, and runbooks; incident response and RCA experience

AWS & Cloud Infrastructure

• Experience with AWS as primary cloud platform; familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS)
• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and CI/CD for cloud-native services

Nice to Have

• Monitoring/logging/tracing or platform-management tooling experience
• Additional AWS services (RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda); multi-cloud (Azure, GCP) exposure
• Network security, cloud networking, or SASE/SD-WAN background; open-source contributions or technical writing

Interpersonal & Communication

• Strong written/verbal communication; effective in collaborative, distributed teams; skilled at mentoring and building consensus

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