Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><div> </div> <div><br></div></div><p> <br><strong>Who We Are:</strong><br>Aviatrix® is pioneering the Cloud Native Security Fabric — the architecture the Containment Era requires. The Cloud Native Security Fabric governs every workload communication path across every cloud, every VPC, every Kubernetes cluster, and every serverless function, from a single policy plane. One rule. Universal propagation. Enforced at the workload, not at a chokepoint. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. For more information, visit <a href="http://aviatrix.ai" target="_blank">aviatrix.ai</a>. </p> <p><strong>About the Role - Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering</strong></p> <p>Aviatrix PaaS delivers intelligent, multi-cloud network and security services as a managed offering. We are seeking a Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering to lead the design and delivery of Golang-based microservices, large-scale data engineering pipelines, and enterprise SaaS platform operations on AWS. You will set technical direction, raise the engineering bar across the team, and drive platform reliability and scalability at enterprise scale.</p> <p><strong>Position Responsibilities</strong></p> <p>Architecture & Technical Leadership</p> <p>• Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of major backend platform capabilities; break down complex problems into well-scoped engineering efforts and guide execution.</p> <p>• Define next-generation architectures for distributed Golang microservices and high-throughput data pipelines on AWS; establish standards the broader engineering org adopts.</p> <p>• Write design proposals and technical documents that articulate trade-offs and long-term platform direction for engineering and product leadership.</p> <p>• Drive improvements to platform reliability, security posture, and engineering quality across the team.</p> <p>Golang Microservices Engineering</p> <p>• Lead design and implementation of production-grade Golang microservices; establish team-wide service patterns, API conventions, and coding standards.</p> <p>• Architect synchronous (gRPC, REST) and asynchronous (event-driven) inter-service communication with a focus on fault tolerance and operational simplicity.</p> <p>• Drive SLO/SLA definition, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and capacity planning across the microservices estate.</p> <p>• Set a high bar through rigorous design and code reviews; mentor engineers on idiomatic Golang, testability, and production readiness.</p> <p>Data Engineering & Pipelines</p> <p>• Architect and deliver large-scale data engineering pip