We are looking for an experienced software engineer to design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable backend infrastructure that powers Cyberhaven's data security platform.
You will work on technically challenging problems involving distributed systems, asynchronous processing, high-throughput data pipelines, storage systems, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Our team builds and operates core platform services that process large volumes of data across distributed environments. We focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and efficient resource utilization while continuously evolving our architecture to support new capabilities and growing workloads.
This is a hands-on engineering role with significant architectural ownership and opportunities to influence technical direction across the platform. We value engineers who understand how complex systems behave under load, reason about failure scenarios, and make pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
What you’ll doDesign, build, and evolve scalable distributed backend systems and high-throughput data processing pipelines.
Develop reliable, high-performance services with a strong focus on concurrency, efficiency, and fault tolerance.
Design and improve event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, and distributed coordination mechanisms.
Solve complex engineering challenges involving consistency, retries, idempotency, deduplication, backpressure, and failure recovery.
Make architectural decisions involving distributed storage, messaging systems, and data processing strategies.
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, improving throughput, latency, resource utilization, and infrastructure cost efficiency.
Drive architectural improvements and modernization of existing systems while maintaining production stability.
Own critical services end-to-end, from technical design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and production operations.
Lead technical design discussions, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and establish engineering best practices.
Collaborate across engineering teams to define technical direction, develop platform capabilities, and solve complex cross-service challenges.
Strong software engineering experience designing, building, and operating complex production backend systems.
Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, concurrency, asynchronous processing, consistency, and fault tolerance.
Strong proficiency in Go, or comparable backend programming experience with the ability to become productive in Go.
Experience designing and operating systems using messaging technologies such as Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, or AWS SQS.
Joining Cyberhaven means joining the team building Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise. Traditional tools fall short. 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.
Backed 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.
AI 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. When AI-assisted interview note taking is used, candidates are notified in advance and have the option to opt out of the AI-assisted interview note taking.
Cyberhaven is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Skills Required
- Strong software engineering experience designing, building, and operating complex production backend systems
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, concurrency, asynchronous processing, consistency, and fault tolerance
- Strong proficiency in Go or comparable backend programming experience with the ability to become productive in Go
- Experience designing and operating systems using Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, or AWS SQS
Cyberhaven Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cyberhaven and has not been reviewed or approved by Cyberhaven.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as flexible or “unlimited,” with paid holidays and sick time, alongside remote‑friendly scheduling.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans via major carriers, with mentions of mental‑health resources, wellness days, and even pet insurance in some listings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks include monthly phone/internet stipends and home‑office support, plus professional development opportunities such as mentorship, conferences, and employee awards.
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What We Do
Cyberhaven was founded by computer scientists and security experts from MIT and EPFL to rethink data security. Instead of stopping threats at the perimeter, we trace the full lineage of sensitive data, where it originates, how it moves, and who uses it. This breakthrough became the foundation of our data lineage platform, now powering Cyberhaven’s leadership in data detection and response and protecting enterprises from insider threats and data loss. Our Data Detection and Response solution transforms how enterprises protect their data with a unique technology called data lineage. Cyberhaven records every event for every piece of data – every move, copy, edit, and share to fully understand how data moves throughout your company. We developed an architecture that achieves complete visibility of your data, including as it transits unmanaged cloud apps and unmanaged devices. As data moves throughout your company, from person to person and application to application, it fragments and gets combined with other data. We calculate the lineage for every piece of data starting with its origin through every step it takes. Our product allows you to define what is risky for your organization, enforce actions to protect data, and educate your workforce in real time.
Why Work With Us
Cyberhaven is a Series D unicorn in AI-driven data security, protecting 300+ customers like Motorola, Reddit, and Snowflake. We solve next-gen DLP by tracing full data lineage and enabling real-time insights. As a value-driven company with remote and hybrid work, you’ll grow alongside bold thinkers, making real impact.
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