Senior Cloud Engineer- Backend

Why join us NOW

APIs form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every web and mobile app depends on APIs. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot innovate rapidly. Salt Security has delivered the only patented solution to identify and prevent API attacks, using Big Data and AI to thwart this top threat to businesses today.

We are backed by the best investors in the world (YCombinator, S-Capital, Tenaya, Sequoia, Capital G, and more) and recently achieved a $1.4B valuation.

We’re at a unique sweet spot in a startup’s lifecycle - the demand from customers is huge, yet our team is small and super high quality.

We are growing fast, and the opportunity window to join as a member of the core team is closing.

Our organizational structure is constantly evolving to meet our business needs, creating many opportunities for growth.

About the position

Our engineering team is made of strong, all-around players. We work across the full lifecycle of our solutions — from researching capabilities in GCP, Azure, and AWS to building and testing systems in Go and deploying them in client environments.

We develop solutions for API-capable platforms, integrate with third-party services, and extend them with our own add-ons. Quality is key — we test thoroughly to ensure stability and reliability in real-world deployments.

Salt’s engineers are curious, independent, and focused on delivering well-crafted, impactful software.

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Why should I join your team?

• Meaningful work that directly impacts client production systems
• Diverse and high-impact work across multiple cloud platforms and APIs
• True ownership of full solution lifecycle from research to deployment
• Fast learning and skill growth through varied and evolving tech challenges
• Collaborative and success-oriented team culture
• Opportunity to leverage modern AI tools to boost productivity and innovation

Who are you?

• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider - MUST (GCP or Azure preferred)
• Development experience in Java/ GO/ Node
• Understanding of core cloud services (compute, networking, storage, IAM)
• Ability to research, understand, and integrate third-party APIs
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Familiarity with testing strategies to ensure production safety
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment with a collaborative company culture
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Preferred (but not mandatory) experience

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Understanding or experience with Kubernetes environments
• Openness to using AI tools to support development and problem-solving