Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

Intuition Machines uses AI/ML to build enterprise security products like our hCaptcha security suite. We apply our research to systems that serve hundreds of millions of people, with a team distributed around the world. Our approach is simple: low overhead, small teams, and rapid iteration.

In Short

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and algorithms
• Implement DevSecOps practices: security protocols, monitoring, metrics, and automated alerts
• Write clean, well-documented, production-quality code with thorough test coverage
• Strengthen engineering practices through code reviews, testing automation, and on-call support
• Translate complex requirements into actionable sprint tasks

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in a similar role.
• Expertise in backend development in Python and at least one of: Golang, Rust, C++.
• Experience with Kubernetes, metrics-driven deployment, containerization, and microservices.
• Experience in implementing and using monitoring and tracing solutions.
• Experience with key-value stores and SQL databases and optimizing their performance.
• Experience with high traffic, low latency distributed systems: queue-first arch, sharding, etc.
• Interest in clean architecture (gather requirements, problem solve and recommend).

Benefits

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
• An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world.
• Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often.
• High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D.
• Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams.