Backend Engineer – Cybersecurity / AI
Location: India | Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
Shinobi Security is an applied AI company building autonomous offensive security technology. We are looking for a Backend Engineer to design and build the systems that control, secure, orchestrate, and monitor autonomous security agents operating in real customer environments.
This is a system design and backend engineering role with significant ownership.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services for autonomous security engagements.
- Develop traffic interception/proxy systems, including scope enforcement, rate limiting, and request/response capture.
- Build secure credential-brokering systems with scoped and revocable credentials.
- Design agent orchestration for long-running jobs, including queues, scheduling, retries, state management, and cancellation.
- Build audit and evidence systems that reliably record agent activity.
- Ensure strong multi-tenant isolation, authorization, and security controls.
- Debug production issues and work directly with customers to resolve technical problems.
Must-Have Requirements
Please apply only if you meet the following core requirements:
- Strong production experience with TypeScript or Python.
- Proven experience designing and architecting backend systems, not just implementing predefined designs.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems — queues, workers, state machines, retries, idempotency, and long-running jobs.
- Good understanding of HTTP, TLS, proxies, and networking.
- Strong security mindset, including least privilege, authorization, and credential security.
- Working knowledge of AWS and containers.
- Ability to take ownership of technical problems and work directly with customers.
Good to Have
Experience with Kubernetes, Envoy/mitmproxy, secrets management (Vault/OpenBao), LLM agent orchestration, penetration testing, or offensive security is a strong advantage.
Important: The strongest candidates will have demonstrated experience designing production systems from the ground up and working across backend engineering, distributed systems, and security.
Send your Cvs @ [email protected]
Benefits:
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Work from home
Application Question(s):
- Which programming language are you strongest in for production backend development: TypeScript or Python? Please mention your years of experience with i
- Describe one production backend system you personally designed or architected from the ground up. What was your role, and what key technical decisions did you make?
- What is your hands-on experience with distributed systems, including queues, workers, retries, state management, and long-running jobs? Please provide a brief example.
Work Location: Remote
