Senior Backend Engineer (Runtime Team)

Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'.

Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500.

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior Backend Engineer to join the Runtime team - one of the most critical backend teams at Torq. We are at a breakthrough stage, building our dream team with the most passionate and professional people in the industry.

The Runtime team owns the execution layer of all Torq automations - the core of our product. We operate at a significant scale: hundreds of millions of steps and millions of security events every single day, in systems that simply cannot break. This creates constant challenges around scale, reliability, and forward-thinking design - always asking what could break next and how to prevent it before it happens. Beyond maintenance, there's a lot of innovation here, including supporting all of our AI-powered capabilities.

What Will You Do?

• Take part in all development aspects - from design to production - of our high-scale automation runtime
• Lead the design and implementation of features and architectural changes that keep our platform reliable at massive scale
• Drive significant cross-team projects and influence decisions beyond your immediate team
• Lead production incidents and post-mortems, raising the bar for stability and operational excellence
• Mentor team members, take part in interviews, and help grow the team and its standards
• Work with modern AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code) as a core part of the workflow - focusing more on design, review, and impact, while maintaining deep understanding and high-quality standards through hands-on code review
  
  

• Experience building scalable backend systems in production environments
• Proven seniority - someone who can lead a design discussion, present a solution clearly and simply, and explain the "why" behind technical decisions
• Experience leading meaningful projects end-to-end
• Experience with production ownership: leading incidents, driving cross-team influence, and improving processes outside of pure coding
• Track record of mentoring, interviewing, or acting as a go-to engineer on a team
• Hands-on experience with Go (an advantage)
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure and services
• Exposure to CI/CD/DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring technologies
• Strong testing mindset - considering both automated testing and monitoring to improve team efficiency and reliability of production services
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing, with a passion to mentor, lead, and guide others
• Extensive Can-Do attitude