Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Point Wild develops cybersecurity solutions that help customers monitor, manage, and protect their identities and personal information in the digital world. The VPN Backend Architect will lead the backend team while writing Golang code, defining technical direction, and designing secure, scalable distributed services for millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architecture of our backend platform serving connections from millions of users
- Design and build highly available distributed services in Golang while setting technical direction on scalability, reliability, and performance targets
- Lead code reviews and champion testing discipline, clean architecture, and engineering best practices across the team
- Partner with the SDK team to integrate client features cleanly into backend systems and deliver end-to-end functionality
- Mentor engineers and grow the technical depth of the team while collaborating with security, infrastructure, and product teams
- Drive the team to meet performance targets and ship reliable products that protect users at scale
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years of backend engineering & architecture experience with 5+ years in Golang
- Proven track record designing and operating distributed systems at scale with deep understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS)
- Hands-on experience with VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPsec), tunneling, NAT traversal, and low-latency networking
- Production experience on AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, Aurora/RDS) with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and strong Linux development background
- Working knowledge of cryptography fundamentals, threat modeling methodologies, secure coding practices, and strong API design skills
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Network performance tuning and optimization experience with knowledge of Python and Java
- Experience with NoSQL databases and familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement (#LI-REMOTE)
- Opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment
- Opportunity to see individual impact and have contributions valued
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