Software Engineer, Backend (Early-to-mid Career)

Job Description

Anzenna

• Salary: $140K – $180K
• Hybrid work policy: 3 days in-office in Redwood City, CA. Remote is not an option.
• Hiring Count: Looking to hire 2 candidates for this role
• Equity: Competitive equity
• Visa sponsorship details: Not open to any visas (e.g. US citizen, Green Card holders)
• Additional visa sponsorship details: No
• Location: Bay Area (3 days in-office in Redwood City, CA. Remote is not an option)
• Job Type: Full-time

About this role

Anzenna (security startup, Redwood City) is hiring a junior backend Software Engineer who wants real customer impact, not just backlog tickets. You’ll build integrations and custom detections in Go/Python/TypeScript, work directly with customer security teams during onboarding, and fold what you learn back into the platform.

This is a real engineering role: not pre-sales, and not a live-at-the-customer FDE gig. Great fit for an early-career engineer who wants ownership and customer exposure, or a security analyst who codes and wants to move into engineering. Direct access to both co-founders.

Why candidates should join

• Top-of-market pay for the level: $140K – $180K + Competitive equity (base + equity higher for exceptional candidates).
• Hybrid, real balance: 3 days/week in Redwood City, 2 remote. Customer exposure without living on-site.
• Real engineering, not pre-sales: ship integrations and custom detections in Go/Python/TypeScript to production from month one. Not ticket triage, not demos.
• Your work moves the product in days: what you hear on a customer call becomes a merged PR the same week.
• Learn directly from operators: founding team shipped security products at Google, Atlassian, Yahoo, and Microsoft; backed by 8VC. You work with both co-founders, not through layers.
• Hot wedge, real depth: insider risk + AI agents running investigations, 100+ enterprise integrations (Okta, CrowdStrike, Slack), and a rare on-ramp for security analysts to cross into a true engineering seat

Requirements

• Seniority

Required: 1 -​ 4 years of experience backend-​leaning engineering

• Work experience

Must have: Junior software engineer (startup preferred) who has worked directly with customers — or shows strong evidence they want customer-​facing work

Required: Must mention security in the resume -​ either interest / experience.​ It cannot be empty words.​

Alternately:​ security analyst (SOC,​ insider threat,​ DLP,​ IAM) who codes,​ with hands-​on scripting/automation on the job,​ looking to move into engineering

Nice to have: Customer-​facing technical role at a security vendor — Customer Success Engineer,​ Solutions Engineer/Architect,​ Support or Deployment Engineer

• Hard skills

Must have: Writes real code in at least one of Go,​ Python,​ or TypeScript — enough to build a script or debug an integration.​ Fast learner or strong foundation both pass.​

• Soft skills

Must have: Fluent spoken English.​ The role involves constant direct customer conversations and live analysis of their use cases.​

Required: Speaks with structure and a point.​ Gets to the answer without looping.​ Doesn’t fill air when they don’t know.​ When probed,​ they either have a substantive take or say “I don’t know”,​ not both dressed up as one.​

• Miscellaneous

Required: Bay Area,​ hybrid.​ Occasional customer-​site travel — this is not a live-​at-​the-​customer FDE role

• Traits to avoid

Avoid: Pure IC engineer with no customer exposure and no interest in getting some

Avoid: Non-​technical Customer Success Manager or career pre-​sales with no shipped code

Avoid: Senior FDE profiles -​ this a junior role

Avoid: Blanket answer on why they want to join Anzenna.​ Answers like “Wants impact,​ high agency,​ ownership ” reads the same for joining EVERY company in the planet.​

We prefer either not seeing this mentioned,​ or there is a reason specific to Anzenna.​ A generic answer is worse than not having an answer.

Application

Send us your updated CV/Resume to contact@remotetalents.website with the subject: “Software Engineer Backend4000”

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