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# Backend Engineer (Go) – AI Security Platform at Pragmatike

- **Company:** Pragmatike
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pragmatike/65546cc8-9599-440d-903b-5297fbdca81f

## Job description

Location: India, Remote-First Employment: Full-Time Start Date: November 2026 onward, with staggered start dates Experience: Mid-Level to Senior Language: Fluent English required Industry: Cybersecurity / Enterprise SaaS / AI Security

## About the Opportunity

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a global enterprise cybersecurity company building a new generation of products to secure AI agents, LLM-powered applications, and the data they access. The engineering organization is scaling rapidly in India, with multiple Backend Engineer openings across several product workstreams. Depending on your experience and interests, you may join one of the following areas:

- Agentic Security: Real-time policy enforcement for AI agent actions, tool calls, and data access.
- AI Security Gateway: High-performance proxy between enterprise applications and LLM providers, covering inline inspection, DLP, rate limiting, and streaming.
- Platform: Shared multi-tenant foundations including identity/RBAC, configuration, event streaming, storage, and internal APIs.
- Data Security Integration: Event-driven integrations between AI security products and existing data security infrastructure.
- Cloud Discovery: Services that discover AI agents, model endpoints, and AI-enabled applications across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and map their access.
- Agentic AI Forensics: Ingestion, indexing, and querying of agent traces and security events for investigation and analysis.
- AI Risk Research: Tooling and testing harnesses that enable security researchers to identify and validate attacks against AI agents.

Across all workstreams, the core stack includes Go, Python, gRPC/REST, event streaming, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms. AI-assisted development is also a core part of the engineering workflow.

## What You’ll Do

- Design, build, and operate production Go services with high standards for performance, reliability, and multi-tenancy.
- Design APIs and data models, owning service contracts, idempotency, retries, and back-pressure.
- Build event-driven pipelines and integrations with cloud providers, internal systems, or AI/agent frameworks.
- Own service reliability through testing, observability, CI/CD, and production readiness.
- Use Python for tooling, testing, migrations, automation, or data workflows.
- Collaborate with AI engineers, security researchers, and product teams on threat models and enforcement logic.
- Use AI coding assistants as part of your daily development, testing, and debugging workflow.

## What We’re Looking For

- 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including 2+ years building production services in Go. Senior roles require 6+ years overall and 3+ years in Go.
- Strong understanding of Go concurrency, networking, and performance, including goroutines, channels, context, and profiling.
- Working knowledge of Python.
- Experience designing gRPC and REST APIs, working with protobuf, and building asynchronous/event-driven systems such as Kafka or equivalent.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases in distributed systems.
- Strong testing discipline and attention to data correctness.
- Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable using modern AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar. This is a must-have.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership in a remote-first, distributed environment.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with API gateways, proxies, policy/authorization engines such as OPA or Cedar, or service meshes.
- Deep knowledge of a major cloud provider's APIs and IAM model.
- Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, ClickHouse, or other search/indexing and columnar data systems at scale.
- Familiarity with LLM agent frameworks, tool-calling protocols, and AI/agent security.
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Background in cybersecurity, security tooling, or trust & safety.
- Experience introducing AI-assisted or agentic development workflows across engineering teams.

AI-First Engineering AI is a core part of how this team builds software. During the interview process, you'll be asked about how you use AI in real-world engineering: the tools you rely on, how you validate their output, and how AI has changed your development workflow. We're looking for engineers who use AI as a force multiplier for quality, productivity, and problem-solving, not simply as an autocomplete tool.

## Why Join

- Build a greenfield product at the intersection of cybersecurity and agentic AI.
- Work on Go services operating at enterprise scale and protecting some of the world's largest organizations.
- Take ownership of a product workstream and influence architecture from an early stage.
- Work alongside a highly technical, distributed engineering team where AI is a core part of the development process.

Pragmatike is committed to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitment process. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. In accordance with GDPR, your personal data will be processed lawfully, fairly, and securely and used solely for recruitment purposes, including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration.

## About Pragmatike

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pragmatike is a remote tech recruitment platform that connects businesses with vetted software engineers, data specialists, and IT professionals across 60+ countries, promising hires within 48 hours.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/early-stage; no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with offices in San Francisco, CA, USA and presence in UAE, Armenia, Turkey)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Grégoire Clement (Co-Founder & CEO), Mathias Guigui (COO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: IT Services and IT Consulting / Talent Recruitment
- **Target customers**: Remote-first companies of all sizes – from startups and scaleups to large enterprises – primarily in SaaS and Fintech, but open to all industries (excluding defense, medical, weaponry)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Simplify IT talent recruitment … score top remote developers and tech professionals. Easy peasy!”

## Products & Services
- **Recruitment-as-a-Service**: End-to-end hiring process with human-picked vetting (no AI screening). Clients submit requirements, get matched within 48 hours, and receive a dedicated personal manager for the duration of the engagement.
- **International Payroll & Compliance Management**: Handles contracts, IP protection, and local labor law compliance for remote hires across 100+ countries.
- **Talent Pool Access**: Database of 50K+ candidates globally; specializes in niche technologies (AS400, Erlang, Scala, Elixir, cybersecurity, IoT, ML) as well as standard stacks (React, Node, Python, Swift, etc.).
- **Roles Covered**: Full-stack developers, data engineers, mobile developers, DevOps, product managers, marketing, finance, sales – all fully remote.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Reports 10,000+ vetted specialists in network; trusted by 50+ brands; currently posting 283 active job openings
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No investors disclosed; client logos not individually named but described as “unicorns, small businesses, large enterprises”
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Year-over-year job postings growth: **+1079.2%**
  - Operates in 60+ countries
  - Stages talent in 2 offices (Paris, San Francisco) with remote workforce spanning 20+ locations

## Competitive Advantages
- **100% Remote DNA**: The company was built for remote hiring, focusing on international talent – unlike traditional local staffing agencies.
- **Human Vetting, No Fake AI**: Claims a rigorous human selection process (communication, English proficiency, technical test, client validation) rather than automated screening.
- **Speed**: Guaranteed match within 48 hours; trial period offered at €0.
- **Cost Advantage**: 30–50% cheaper than local market rates for freelance developers, with no hidden fees.
- **Flexible, Project-Based Pricing**: No subscriptions or packages; pricing per hour (€31–€59) tailored to client budget.
- **Niche Expertise**: Able to source rare specialists (AS400, Erlang, etc.) often inaccessible via traditional channels.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Growing presence in EMEA, UAE, and Americas; actively posting jobs across time zones.
- **Quality Over Quantity**: Emphasizes human-curated matches over automated algorithms.
- **SaaS & Fintech Concentration**: Primary verticals, while remaining industry-agnostic for broader reach.
- **Cost Leadership**: Maintaining price advantage to undercut larger competitors like Toptal or Upwork.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “young startup” that “pampers clients like bees nurturing honey” – high-touch, service-oriented environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Fully remote operations; employees work from physical offices in Paris or San Francisco as needed, but the company is built for remote work.
- **Team**: Small team of ~7 employees (down 25% YoY, likely due to strategic refocus), with HR as the largest department (33%).
- **Growth Opportunity**: Working at a fast-growing platform that tripled job postings in a year offers exposure to global tech talent markets and recruitment ops.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but flexible, project-based environment with international exposure.

## Sources
1. [pragmatike.com](https://www.pragmatike.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pragmatikee)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/pragmatike)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pragmatike)
5. [pragmatike.com/business](https://www.pragmatike.com/business)

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