Senior Backend Engineer

Accelerate Your Career in Cybersecurity!Join Pentera and take your career to the next level in cybersecurity. As a leader in Automated Security Validation, we help businesses around the world safely emulate real-world attacks to uncover their vulnerabilities, just like the world’s best red teams. At Pentera, you will be at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, working on advanced tools that challenge organizations' defenses and push the limits of security testing.With over 350 team members and 1,300 customers in more than 60 countries, Pentera is a growing company supported by top investors such as Insight Partners, K1, and The Blackstone Group.If you want to grow your skills, make an impact, and be part of an innovative team, Pentera is the place for you.About the role:We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us at a moment when AI is reshaping how software gets built and how attackers operate. You'll ship production code in a core engineering team, own features end-to-end, and help push our engineering org to be genuinely AI-native, both in what we build and in how we build it.This is a hands-on role for someone who wants real ownership, works well with product and research, and is excited to use AI as a daily force multiplier.Responsibilities:Design, build, and ship features across our platform, from architecture through productionOwn components end-to-end: performance, reliability, security, and long-term maintainabilityPartner with product managers, security researchers, and other engineers to turn hard problems into shippable productsLead the integration of AI capabilities (LLMs, agents) into the product where they create real user value, not just where they look good in a demoDrive the adoption of modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) as part of your daily workflow, and actively mentor the team to level up their AI-driven developmentRaise the bar on code quality, review culture, and technical decisionsMentor other engineers and contribute to how the team works, not just what it ships