Endor Labs
Backend Software Engineer (Mid-Senior)
Palo Alto, CA · Senior
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About the role
- This role is based in Palo Alto, California, and follows a hybrid work model.
- The bottleneck now has moved from code generation to security and safety - AI agents write code faster than any team can review it, and over 65% of the lines of code produced by them are insecure.
- Vulnerabilities are piling up 16x faster than companies can fix them, and adversaries are able to exploit these new vulnerabilities within hours.
Responsibilities
- Own Core Product Functionality: Own the core functionality at the heart of Endor's AppSec platform. Design and deliver features that secure source code end to end, from IDE to deployment, fueling the next generation of AI-driven software development.
- Elevate Core Services: Drive the development and optimization of vital core services like our API Gateway and API servers, ensuring robust and scalable infrastructure.
- Maintain diverse scan environments - Enhance our dynamic cloud scan platform by supporting the ever-growing build and tool chain requirements.
- Innovate with Autonomy: Embrace the freedom to design and build top-tier tools that will be leveraged across all teams at Endor, making a significant impact on our operations.
- If you're excited about helping build a large-scale SaaS platform at an early-stage company and the qualifications below align with your background, we'd love to connect!
Requirements
- Engineering Expertise: Bachelor's in engineering and 3-5 years of experience.
- Golang Mastery: Showcase ~3 years of experience in Golang programming, with a deep focus on microservices and distributed architecture, to drive our cutting-edge solutions.
- Effective Communicator: Leverage your ability to discuss architectural trade-offs and guide teams towards the most effective solutions, ensuring alignment and forward momentum.
- Cloud-Native Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda functions, or other cutting-edge cloud-native technologies.
- Security Savvy: Knowledge of security, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection to tackle real-world challenges and safeguard our systems with cutting-edge solutions.
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills
Skills
- AI Code security
- Be at the forefront of securing customer code with bleeding edge AI code security solutions.
- Maintain diverse scan environments
Compensation
- For candidates who receive an offer for this position, the compensation range is expected to be between $150,000 - $200,000.
Benefits
- This may include additional incentives such as commission targets, restricted stock units, and/or bonuses, depending on the role.
Company info
- AI coding is the largest use case of enterprise AI adoption today, as is evident from the success of Anthropic on Claude Code, Cursor's $60B exit to SpaceX, and Cognition's $48B valuation.
- The bottleneck now has moved from code generation to security and safety - AI agents write code faster than any team can review it, and over 65% of the lines of code produced by them are insecure. Vulnerabilities are piling up 16x faster than companies can fix them, and adversaries are able to exploit these new vulnerabilities within hours.
- AURI by Endor Labs closes that gap. It runs inside the harness where coding agents work, through hooks, skills and MCP, so the controls sit outside the model and every agent action is visible. Underneath is our patented code context graph, which maps code, open source, containers and infrastructure. It shows which vulnerabilities can actually be reached and exploited, then delivers fixes that won't break the application. Security teams get evidence instead of noise, and developers get fixes instead of tickets.
- The companies building AI trust us to secure it - our customers include OpenAI, SpaceX, DoorDash, Dropbox, Atlassian, MongoDB, Snowflake, Robinhood and Peloton to name a few.
- Endor Labs is the third company from Founder & CEO Varun Badhwar, who built Prisma Cloud, the platform that helped define cloud security, from $0 to $300M ARR at Palo Alto Networks.
- We've raised $163M from Lightspeed, Coatue, DFJ Growth, Salesforce Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital.
- Software runs everything around our lives today - banking, hospitals, airports and power grids.
- AURI by Endor Labs closes that gap.
- It runs inside the harness where coding agents work, through hooks, skills and MCP, so the controls sit outside the model and every agent action is visible.
- Underneath is our patented code context graph, which maps code, open source, containers and infrastructure.
- It shows which vulnerabilities can actually be reached and exploited, then delivers fixes that won't break the application.
- Security teams get evidence instead of noise, and developers get fixes instead of tickets.
- AI now writes more of it every day, and our mission is to make sure the world can trust that software.
- Come build that future with us.
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