📝 Senior Backend Software Engineer, are you there?

Hey there! We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer for Obsidian Security, a cybersecurity company focused on securing SaaS applications and protecting organizations from identity, access, and data threats across their SaaS environments. If you are analytical, collaborative, and experienced building scalable backend systems with Golang or Python, keep reading!

🌎 100% Remote
💵 Salary in USD
📍 LATAM – Reporting to PST
🕒 Full Time
🇬🇧 Advanced English

About our client 🤓

You will be working with Obsidian Security, a fast-growing cybersecurity company that helps organizations secure their SaaS ecosystems by detecting threats, identifying misconfigurations, and protecting critical business applications. Their platform analyzes activity, identities, and integrations across SaaS environments to surface risks and stop security incidents before they escalate.

In this role, you will help design and build scalable data infrastructure systems, including management control planes, SaaS data retrieval connectors, and distributed data processing pipelines. Your work will contribute to improving system reliability, scalability, and performance while collaborating closely with Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams.

About Athyna 🙋🏻

Athyna is a Global Talent Platform that connects top-tier talent with incredible job opportunities around the world.

We’re passionate about the future of work, so we’re a fully remote, globally distributed team across 5 continents. We believe in people, value freedom, integrity, and quality, and strive to make an impact that matters.

At Athyna, we genuinely care about everyone on our team and are committed to creating a positive, supportive environment where everyone can thrive.

In your day-to-day, you will 👇🏼

Design and develop scalable backend APIs to support frontend applications and customer onboarding workflows
Architect and build data retrieval connectors for multiple SaaS platforms with high reliability and extensibility
Design and implement distributed data processing pipeline components running in Kubernetes environments
Develop and maintain management control plane services for data orchestration and governance
Partner with DevOps to implement GitOps-driven infrastructure automation and CI/CD best practices
Optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency across cloud environments
Collaborate with Engineering and Product leadership to align technical solutions with business objectives while maintaining system reliability and user experience
Contribute to architectural decisions, technical strategy, and engineering best practices

Skills you have 🚀

7–10 years of professional experience in backend or systems engineering
Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Python
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and gRPC services
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized distributed systems
Experience building scalable data processing systems or pipelines
Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, concurrency, and performance optimization
Experience operating in AWS and/or GCP
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset
Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Skills that will make you stand out 💥

Experience with SaaS integrations
Experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka
Experience with platform or control plane design
Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Experience with security or compliance-driven systems
Understanding of AI/ML concepts such as LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, inference, and evaluation
Experience integrating AI/ML APIs and building AI-ready data infrastructure such as RAG systems
Ability to effectively leverage AI-powered developer tools in engineering workflows