Lead Python + Go Engineer

N-iX is a global company with Ukrainian roots that helps businesses across the world develop successful software products. Founded in 2002, N-iX has come a long way and increased its presence in nine countries spanning Europe, the US, and Latin America. Today, we are a strong community of 2,000+ professionals and a reliable partner for global industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. 

We are looking for a skilled Lead Python + Go Engineer to join our team in India.

Our client is defining the future of cybersecurity through an innovative cybersecurity platform that automatically prevents, detects, and responds to threats in real time. This cybersecurity platform ingests data and leverages their patented AI models to deliver autonomous protection. With this solution, organizations gain full transparency into everything happening across the network at machine speed – to defeat every attack at every stage of the threat lifecycle.

We are a values-driven team where names are known, results are rewarded, and friendships are formed. Trust, accountability, relentlessness, and ingenuity define the pillars of our collaborative and unified global culture. We're looking for people that will drive team success and collaboration across the company. If you’re enthusiastic about innovative approaches to problem-solving, we would love to speak with you about joining our team!

Our team is responsible for the backend part of the main product line, securing tens of millions of devices across the globe of all kinds of OS (Windows, Linux, macOS), and processing billions of security events every day.

• We are building services (e.g. gateways, caching, threat data ingestion etc) that process traffic & serve for two-way interaction between Agents on the protected devices and our cloud-based Management console (a large-scale distributed system, with a client facing, data-heavy & complex web application).
• We also enable features in this console that allow tens of thousands of users on IT security teams of our clients to manage our security SW deployed on endpoints in client's environments (e.g. investigating threats & notifications from protected devices; creating blocklists, exclusions, policies etc.).

You'll be joining a team with a significant impact on how our customers' environments are protected, how they interact with agents, gain visibility into their security posture, and understand the risks and act upon them. As a core team, we're heavily involved in every end-to-end effort, features development and are key contributors to the design and build of the right architecture of the cybersecurity solution to match the scale & hyper-growth of our business.

Design, develop and support backend system serving for endpoint security

• Help us with initiatives around moving our services to a new deployment model.
• Tuning and adjusting our services to work with new CPU architectures.
• Improving the observability for our services.

Responsibilities: 

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with product, validation, and front-end engineering teams to deliver and maintain high-quality features.
• Code Quality and Maintenance: Write clean, maintainable code. Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in backend technologies and security best practices.
• Innovation and Creativity: Bring creativity to the table. Explore new solutions and technologies to improve our product continuously.
• Lead code reviews, establish coding standards and best practices 
• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and Security teams to align on requirements, release timelines, and operational concerns.

• 7+ years of experience with Python and Go.
• Ability to quickly dive into new products and understand their inner working.
• Self-driven individual.
• Experience with Docker, Helm & Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with AWS and/or other cloud platforms.

Nice to have:

• 2+ years of experience in a Lead role.
• Familiarity with DevOps tasks.

Your main tools: Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Marshmallow) and Golang (we're using for new development); AWS & GCP; PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka; Kubernetes, Docker; GitHub etc.