Staff Software Engineer - Backend
LookoutHyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted November 17, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Lookout, Inc. is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader delivering advanced protection for the most vulnerable element of any enterprise security strategy — human error and manipulation.
Job Description
Lookout, Inc. is seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer - Backend to design and implement large-scale, low-latency microservices, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to evolving the architecture of the company's backend system.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field/degree
- Professional programming experience with Golang, Python, Scala, Java and/or Ruby+Rails
- Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals and algorithms
- Experience with event streaming frameworks, technologies, patterns and architectures
- Experience with implementing secure, scalable API services
- Experience with transactional databases and data modeling
- Cloud development experience (especially AWS)
- Pragmatic and curious problem-solver
- High-ownership collaborator with keen attention to detail
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge product and service on a large scale
- Chance to contribute to evolving the architecture of the company's backend system
- Mentorship and coaching opportunities for junior engineers
- End-to-end service ownership with on-call duties
- Improvement of automated testing (unit, integration, functional etc)