MTS - Backend Engineer (Principal/Staff)

<p>This role is based in Palo Alto, California, and follows a hybrid work model. 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!</p> <h2><strong>About Us</strong></h2> <p>Endor Labs is building the Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate—enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster.&nbsp;</p> <p>Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting edge Bazel Monorepos. Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures.</p> <p>Sound interesting? Let’s talk if you want to be part of the next big leap in security innovation!</p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for a Principal Member of Technical Staff to join our engineering organization as a cross-cutting technical leader. This is a pure individual contributor role with significant architectural influence. You will work across teams to tackle our hardest backend scaling, reliability, and security product challenges.</p> <p>As a Principal MTS, you will set technical direction, drive architecture evolution, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization. You will partner closely with engineering leadership, product, and other senior technologists to translate business and customer needs into scalable, high-performance systems.</p> <p>This role is ideal for someone who has built and scaled security products before, thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, and has the rare combination of deep backend expertise and strong product instincts.</p> <h2><strong>How You'll Make an Impact</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Architect and evolve the core backend platform, including microservices, async processing pipelines, and data infrastructure.</li> <li>Drive technical strategy and make high-impact design decisions that affect the entire product and engineering organization.</li> <li>Design and build high-performance, reliable SaaS services that process security data at scale with low latency and high throughput.</li> <li>Lead cross-team technical initiatives, collaborating with and through other senior engineers to ship complex features.</li> <li>Mentor and elevate senior engineers through architecture reviews, de