Software Engineer

In this role, you will help build and operate the backend and platform services behind ACRA: our secure Kubernetes platform for controlled compute, data governance, and AI-driven security operations. You will work mainly in Go, building services across backend engineering, Kubernetes, platform infrastructure, and security. This includes systems designed for reliability, scale, and security from the start, including how AI can help define, enforce, and reason about security controls. You will join a focused engineering team that values ownership, direct feedback, and support. You will start with clear areas of work, then take on more autonomy over services and platform direction as you build context. This is a strong fit for someone who wants to become excellent across backend, platform, Kubernetes, and security, and help build a serious security platform from an early stage.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services, APIs, and platform components using Go.
• Own services from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, and secrets management.
• Build platform features for workload isolation, policy enforcement, audit logging, and identity-aware communication.
• Design event-driven distributed systems for resilience and scalability.
• Improve metrics, logging, tracing, and incident response.
• Work with engineering and product teams to turn requirements into technical solutions.
• Own specific platform areas and contribute independently.
• Improve how the team reviews code, deploys changes, and learns from incidents.

Requirements

• Backend engineering experience, with some exposure to Go.
• Experience building APIs, backend services, or microservices.
• Experience working with Docker and containers.
• Experience deploying to, developing on, or building with Kubernetes.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with GitOps, Argo, container registries, secrets, or deployment security.
• Understanding of event-driven architecture, asynchronous workflows, or distributed systems.
• System design knowledge around reliability, scalability, observability, and failure handling.
• Ability to debug issues across applications, services, and infrastructure.
• Interest in why the platform is being built, not just what needs to be implemented.
• Ownership, curiosity, and ability to work independently.
• Willingness to learn across backend, platform, infrastructure, and DevOps.

Ideally You Will Have

• Security, regulated, or high-trust environments such as defence, government, fintech, healthcare, critical infrastructure, or sovereign cloud.
• Kubernetes security areas such as zero trust, workload isolation, identity-aware systems, network policy, service mesh, or policy enforcement.
• Platform security practices such as secrets management, supply-chain security, admission control, auditability, and operational evidence.
• Observability and operations, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, incident response, and debugging production systems.
• Experience in startup, platform, infrastructure, or product engineering environments with broad ownership.
• You do not need to have worked with all of these. They are areas you may learn and build with us.