Senior Backend Engineer

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Hybrid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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2 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Backend Engineer Tel Aviv, Israel | Hybrid | Remote We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Sightline detection engineering team. You will design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency backend services that score and protect web and API traffic against automated abuse, working at the core of HUMAN's real-time detection platform. What you'll do: - High-Scale Engineering: Design, build, and maintain distributed, high-throughput backend services processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second with strict tens-of-milliseconds latency targets. - End-to-End Ownership: Own services from architecture and implementation to deployment and reliability. This includes full-stack instrumentation (monitoring, alerting, and tracing) to detect and mitigate production issues. - Product Innovation: Implement and evolve real-time detection and decisioning flows within the Sightline Cyberfraud Defense platform, collaborating with security researchers, data science, and product teams. - Cloud-Native Operations: Build and operate services in a Kubernetes environment using a modern GitOps stack (Go, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, BigQuery, ArgoCD, Pulumi, Crossplane), ensuring robust rollout strategies and safe migrations. - AI-Forward Engineering: Demonstrate a deep passion for the AI-first development frontier and an expert-level ability to leverage assistants and agents to radically accelerate the entire lifecycle - from architectural scaffolding to automated tasks, skills, and complex debugging/testing. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with adjacent teams to design end-to-end flows that balance security, performance, and customer experience. - Technical Leadership: Contribute to technical design reviews and code reviews, raising the bar for quality and operational excellence across the team. Who you are: - Experie

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