Senior Software Engineer

Job description

# Senior Backend Engineer ## **Who We Are** Vivid is building the first Resilience Posture Management platform. Our AI continuously maps your full recovery stack - across backups, infrastructure, recovery plans, and dependencies to provide real-time visibility into what will recover and what won’t, tests your recovery capabilities, and proactively identifies and fixes risks before it’s too late. For the first time, organizations can truly understand and manage their recovery risk - transforming resilience from a wishful assumption into a managed capability. ## About the Role **Mission:** Build the scalable backend engine that powers Backup Posture and the Detection Engine. We are seeking a **self-sufficient Senior Backend Engineer** with extensive experience to join our team. You will take ownership of critical architectural components and **lead initiatives**, own the data highways and the logic layer, ensuring our platform processes telemetry from thousands of assets efficiently. ## Core Responsibilities - **Technical Leadership:** Lead backend initiatives and provide technical guidance to other engineers, driving high standards in code quality and architecture. - **Posture Management Logic:** Build the core logic for the "Overview Dashboard" — calculating Scores, violations, and Aggregated Statuses across AWS/Azure/Veeam. - **Data Pipelines & Ingestion:** Architect the server-side ingestion pipelines that receive data from collectors (On-prem/Cloud). - **Detection Engine Integration:** Build the "serving layer" for the AI models — running the detection jobs, managing queues, and exposing the results (Misconfigurations) via REST APIs. - **Platform Engineering:** Ensure the backend supports multi-tenancy, RBAC (Azure AD), and high availability. ## Requirements - 5+ years of hands-on programming in **Python**, **Node.js**, or **Go** (you know one well, and you’re comfortable picking up the others). - 3+ years working with **AWS**, **Kubernetes**, and **RDS** (you know your way around cloud-native deployments, scaling, and persistence). - Significant experience building data-intensive applications and designing APIs for frontend and external consumers. - **Cyber Security B2B SaaS:** Proven experience in Cyber Security B2B SaaS startups is highly preferred. - **Technical Leadership:** Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers. - Startup Experience - a plus. ## Why Join - **Unsolved problem** with a an extreme market demand. - **Real ownership** — you’ll build core systems, not edge features - **High impact** — your work directly shapes how companies secure and understand their backup environments - **Complex challenges** — distributed systems, multi-cloud, high-scale data - **Strong team** — work with experienced engineers who care about quality and speed - **Fast pace, low bureaucracy** — ideas move quickly from concept to production