Senior / Principal Software Engineer (Cybersecurity) Portalegre

Senior / Principal Software Engineer (Cybersecurity)
Portalegre
Portalegre, Portalegre District, Portugal

Location: Remote (EU, UK or compatible time zones)

About us

At Slash
ID, we’re building a
- generation identity platform that helps organizations secure all identities—human and
- human—across complex,
- cloud environments. Our Identity Protection product detects and prevents
- based threats by continuously monitoring credentials, privileges, and activity across cloud and Saa
S systems.

Security, scalability, and reliability are core to everything we build. Our customers rely on our systems for critical infrastructure protection, and we aim to deliver
- availability,
- latency services that meet
- grade expectations.

We’re a startup operating with lean processes, fast
- making, and a collaborative mindset. You’ll join a small, highly skilled team solving complex technical challenges with
- world impact.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior or Principal Software Engineer with experience building backend systems for security or infrastructure products. This is a full-time , hands-on engineering role focused on designing and developing Slash
ID’s Identity Protection platform.

As an engineer at Slash
ID, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain
  - performance backend services for
  - time identity threat detection and response pipelines
• Develop and scale infrastructure that processes identity data and security events from multiple cloud environments
• Implement systems to track, correlate, and analyze activity across credentials, tokens, permissions, and roles
• Define detection logic, enforce policy controls, and prevent misconfigurations
• Create monitoring, logging, and alerting systems that provide deep visibility into service health and user activity
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and write clear design documentation
• Take part in code reviews and
  - call rotations
• Partner with frontend engineers to expose backend capabilities in the Slash
  ID Console
• Write
  - facing and
  - facing documentation as needed

You will use:

• Go (Golang)
• GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• Neo4j
• Big
  Query
• Postgre
  SQL and My
  SQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Terraform

You are a good fit if you:

• Want to build great products, and not just backend features
• Have experience building scalable, secure backend systems in production environments
• Have a strong understanding of
  - native architecture and distributed systems
• Have worked on
  - focused products, such as identity, access control, threat detection, or SIEMs
• Have experience with Neo4j or other graph databases
• Have a deep understanding of application security, including authentication, authorization, and secrets management
• Are comfortable building data pipelines and services that process large volumes of events in
  - real time
• Care about engineering best practices, test coverage, observability, and performance optimization
• Work well in
  - paced environments with a high degree of autonomy
• Are thoughtful in code and communication, with attention to user and developer experience
• Are confident writing
  - quality Go code (or are comfortable picking it up quickly)

Please note: 

• The role level (Senior or Principal) will depend on your experience and interview performance
• The team is based in Europe and we’re looking for candidates in compatible time zones
• Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor VISAs at this time
• Slash
  ID is a
  - first company with flexible working arrangements
• For candidates outside the US, employment is via B2B contract or employer of record