Cylake
Backend Engineer
$150K–$250K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Full-time · Posted Mar 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years as a backend or full-stack engineer.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment offers are conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws and regulations without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Designs and builds the management layer for a distributed embedded system, including its policies, configuration, secrets, and supporting engines.
What you'll do
- Design policy structures, configuration storage and reliability, and secret management.
- Build engines and deliver a performant, robust management system.
- Design, build, and secure highly available RESTful or gRPC-based APIs.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in a subset of modern backend programming languages, such as Go, Python, Node.js, or Rust.
- Deep understanding of database technologies, performance characteristics, and use cases.
- Proven experience designing, building, and securing modern RESTful or gRPC-based APIs for highly available systems.
- Experience with Policy Engines and policy-as-code frameworks; strong understanding of security and secret storage technologies.
Nice to have
- Frontend experience.
- Modern cloud provider and DevOps experience; IoT and embedded systems experience is a nice-to-have.
Pay
$150,000 – $250,000 per year (USD, base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Node.js, Rust, RESTful APIs, gRPC
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