Backend Engineer

🌍 We're making security suck less for developers.
Security tools haven't kept pace with modern software development. They interrupt teams, slow releases, and turn security into a bottleneck. Aikido is changing that. We build developer-first security products that reduce real risk without getting in the way of shipping software. We focus on what matters, automate the rest, and make security a capability, not a blocker.
Founded in 2022 by third-time founders, Aikido has $85M in the bank and the runway to build for the long term.

Following our acquisition of Root.io in June 2026, the team formed Agentic Factory: the business unit moving beyond vulnerability detection to automated remediation.

We are looking for an Backend Engineer to build and own the systems that drive this.

Responsibilities

• Write modular, testable, and efficient code using Golang, Javascript, PHP and other languages.

• Managing Argo pipelines in K8s and lambda deployments.

• Research complex optimization problems.

• Understand the fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

• Really comfortable in a very entrepreneurial environment.

• Can think along with architectural and impactful decisions.

• Willing to learn new languages when the product requires it.

• Comfortable researching and tackling hard problems and algorithms (eg parsing with ASTs).

• Willing to experiment (and also willing to perhaps throw away some code)