Software Engineer

Summary

Praetorian is an expert-driven offensive security company dedicated to preventing breaches before they occur. They are seeking a Software Engineer who will take ownership of building and shipping features across their platform, ensuring high standards in code quality and performance while working closely with offensive security engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features across the full stack of the Praetorian Guard platform, from the Go serverless backend to a React frontend used by security teams daily
• Take accountability to overcome the challenges in developing and operating the Praetorian Guard platform
• Write code that is clear, tested, and built to last
• Push the team's engineering standards forward through code review, technical proposals, and leading by example
• Work directly with offensive security engineers to translate real-world vulnerability findings into platform capabilities
• Design systems that handle the complexity of attack surface management at scale: graph databases modeling millions of asset relationships, queue-based architectures processing continuous security scans, and real-time interfaces that make complex data actionable

Skills

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 0–5 years of experience in cybersecurity, startups, or tech companies
• You write Go that is idiomatic, testable, and production-ready
• You understand serverless architectures, API design, and working with databases under real load
• You reason about distributed systems, concurrency, failure modes, and data flow
• You apply software engineering principles to guide AI agents to build responsive, performant UI in maintainable code
• You care deeply about the final user experience and do not stop iterating until it is right
• You have side projects, open-source contributions, or technical writing that shows you build because you want to, not because someone told you to
• You've shipped something real outside of a classroom

Qualifications

Must Haves

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 0–5 years of experience in cybersecurity, startups, or tech companies
• You write Go that is idiomatic, testable, and production-ready
• You understand serverless architectures, API design, and working with databases under real load
• You reason about distributed systems, concurrency, failure modes, and data flow
• You apply software engineering principles to guide AI agents to build responsive, performant UI in maintainable code
• You care deeply about the final user experience and do not stop iterating until it is right
• You have side projects, open-source contributions, or technical writing that shows you build because you want to, not because someone told you to
• You've shipped something real outside of a classroom