Backend Engineer; Go​/Security Platforms

Title
:
Senior Backend Engineer (Go / Security Platforms)

Location
:
Brooklyn Park, MN | Hybrid

Job Type
:
Contract (12 months – W2 only)

Compensation
: $70 – $112 per hour (W2)

Industry
:
Retail

Requires Skills
:
Go (Golang), Vault, KMS, Pattern Engines, Postgres, Docker, Open Telemetry

We are partnering with a large, technology-driven consumer enterprise to hire a Backend Engineer who will help advance a highly scalable, security-focused detection platform. This role sits within a core engineering team responsible for building secure, high-throughput backend systems that protect sensitive data at enterprise scale. The ideal candidate will have strong Go experience and a passion for designing resilient, secure, and observable systems.

In this role, you will design, build, and maintain backend services that support detection pipelines, secrets management, and asynchronous orchestration. You will work closely with platform, data, and security engineers to deliver scalable and secure solutions used across a large, distributed organization.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and enhancing a high-performance backend detection platform, including consumer rule processors, event producers, APIs, and asynchronous workflows
• Owning secrets management workflows backed by Vault and KMS-style encryption services, including reviewing and hardening key usage and lifecycle management
• Designing and optimizing Postgre
  
  SQL schemas, migrations, and queries to support high-throughput workloads
• Troubleshooting and scaling event-driven pipelines using Kafka and similar stream-processing tools, with a focus on idempotency, back pressure, and reliability
• Implementing and improving observability through logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
• Strengthening engineering practices through improved test coverage, CI/CD pipeline enhancements, and optimized container-based development workflows

Required

• 4+ years of hands-on experience building production services in Go, including modules, testing, and deployment
• 3+ years of experience working with Postgre
  
  SQL, including schema migrations, indexing strategies, and performance tuning
• 2+ years designing/operating Vault integrations and KMS-style key handling, including secure key life cycles.
• Practical experience with detection or pattern-matching engines such as YARA, or similar pattern engines
• Streaming experience with Kafka (or similar) stream-processing patterns; comfort with Benthos or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Docker, Docker Compose, and containerized development workflows, including Docker file optimization
• Familiarity with observability concepts such as Open Telemetry, distributed tracing, and metrics instrumentation
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively in Agile environments and understands the downstream impact of technical decisions

Preferred

• Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or similar tools
• Exposure to search technologies such as Solr or Lucene and performance tuning techniques
• Experience integrating authentication or identity solutions such as LDAP or OIDC
• Knowledge of pattern matching algorithms and performance trade-offs (e.g., Aho–Corasick)
• Background working in large-scale, high-availability systems supporting high throughput and low latency

Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits

Summary:

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