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Senior Backend Engineer (Austin, TX)

Torq
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/2/2025
Skeletons, lasers, monster trucks — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we’re growing like crazy, with $70M in Series C funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth in 2024. Fueling Torq’s growth are our game changing agentic AI security solutions, 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. Excited about our vision and ready to make an impact as we grow? We’d love to see what you can bring to the team.

We are looking for an experienced, hands on Senior software engineer to join our fast growing company and in a breakthrough stage where we build our dream team with the most passionate and professional people in the industry. Our team thinks differently and quickly, delivering high quality and unique code using the latest technologies and frameworks. We try new things outside of the mainstream, love to learn from each other, and have a blast while doing so!

What will you do?

  • Take part in all development aspects from design through production of a dynamic hybrid/cloud native product
  • Write high quality, testable and efficient code in Go and/or Java
  • Initiate and promote new ideas for continuous improvement of the product functionality
  • Work closely with other team members and mentor new team members

What should you bring to the table?

  • Significant real-world experience developing software for production systems
  • Extensive Can-Do attitude
  • Hands-on experience and proficiency in Go (preferred), Java
  • Experience with Cloud infrastructure and services
  • Exposure and experience to CI/CD/DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring technologies
  • Ability to take initiative and scope work to deliver value iteratively, making meaningful design decisions, and driving work to completion
  • Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing
  • Strong testing abilities. Consideration of both automated testing and monitoring to improve team efficiency and reliability of production services

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. Torq is building an outstanding company. To achieve our goals, we are focused on hiring great people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to a team defined and empowered by diversity. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Torq will process your personal data in accordance with Torq’s Privacy Policy.

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