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title: 'Senior Backend Software Engineer at Atolio'
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# Senior Backend Software Engineer at Atolio

- **Company:** Atolio
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/atolio/09c923c0-c965-417b-a7ef-14baf16a033c

## Job description

About Us: At Atolio, we are a fully remote, well-funded startup founded by experienced leaders from Splunk and PagerDuty. We’re on a mission to make organizational knowledge instantly accessible regardless of which app, service, or platform it lives in. We’re an early series startup combining cutting-edge machine learning and AI to solve some of the most complex challenges in enterprise search: indexing, retrieval, and scaling across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure). With a collaborative culture, robust tools, and comprehensive benefits, Atolio is a place where innovation and creativity thrive. About the Role: As a Senior Backend Engineer you’ll help create distributed backend services deployed in Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, or Azure, powering enterprise grade applications with integrations like Okta. In addition, you’ll build scalable, cloud-native systems using Golang. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast paced, ambiguous environments, enjoys solving complex infrastructure and systems challenges, and communicates effectively on a fully remote team. What You’ll Do:

- Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, cloud-native backend services using Golang in a modern microservices architecture.
- Apply deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, operating systems, and distributed systems to solve complex, real world problems.
- Deploy and operate services in Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance.
- Integrate with enterprise systems and security protocols, including SSO/IdP providers like Okta, to support large-scale deployments.
- Lead projects from 0 to1
- Responsible for leading architecture and design of new product features and services
- Collaborate across teams to define technical requirements, shape architecture, and deliver high-impact solutions in a fast-moving, startup environment.
- Work across the stack when needed, especially at the intersection of backend services and other infrastructure layers.

What We’re Looking For:

- Strong understanding of core computer science principles, including algorithms, data structures, operating systems, distributed systems, networking, and concurrent programming.
- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable cloud services and microservices architectures.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages specifically, Golang experience is required.
- Experience working in a Kubernetes environment, within AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Comfort working across the stack, with a focus on backend systems.
- Experience building applications for large enterprises, with familiarity in SSO/IdP systems like Okta.
- Enthusiasm for working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with minimal documentation and established processes.
- Collaborative mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity to tackle complex challenges.
- Excellent communication skills for working effectively within a remote team.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

- Make an impact from day one: your work will directly support client success
- Autonomy and ownership: we empower you to make key technical and operational decisions
- Flexible hours and remote-friendly culture: work in a way that fits your life
- Transparent founders and mission-driven team: help build meaningful technology with real-world impact management. If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you!

Compensation & Benefits:

- Competitive salary and early-stage equity
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Home office stipend
- Flexible PTO policy

## About Atolio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Atolio provides an AI-powered enterprise search platform that is fully self-hosted inside a customer's own cloud environment, enabling secure, permission-aware knowledge discovery across workplace applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: David Lanstein (CEO) and Gareth Watts (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Search
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises and hypergrowth companies (Global 2000), as well as government and defense organizations (e.g., U.S. Air Force) with strict security, compliance, and data residency requirements.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To fix how teams manage and share information by providing a secure, AI-powered search that keeps enterprise data under the customer's control.

## Products & Services
- **Atolio Enterprise Search Platform**: A self-hosted AI search engine that indexes data from workplace apps (Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Office 365, etc.) with document-level permissions. Users can ask questions and get answers, find documents, and identify subject matter experts, all within their own cloud perimeter.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: $24M total funding raised (Series A, closed approximately 9 months ago as of mid-2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IBM Ventures, Translink Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Acorn Pacific Ventures, Parameter Ventures (and 5+ additional investors). Also awarded a $1.25M U.S. Air Force SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract.
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring for multiple engineering and deployment roles (Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Engineer, Connector Software Engineer, IT Systems Engineer). They have a clear focus on expanding into government/defense sectors and serve both fast-growing companies and the Global 2000.

## Competitive Advantages
- **100% Self-Hosted**: Unlike SaaS competitors like Microsoft Copilot or Glean, Atolio is deployed entirely within the customer's own cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, or on-premises with Red Hat OpenShift). Data never leaves the customer's infrastructure — a technical guarantee, not just a contractual one.
- **Model Agnostic**: Customers can bring their own LLM (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, AWS Bedrock, IBM watsonx.ai, or self-hosted models like Llama), avoiding vendor lock-in.
- **Permission Mirroring**: Enforces access controls from source systems in real-time, ensuring users only see content they are already authorized to view.
- **Cross-Ecosystem Search**: Connects across the full tool stack, not just Microsoft or Google ecosystems, surfacing knowledge and expertise from Slack, Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and more.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities and direction for growth**: Scaling the team to meet demand from large enterprises and government clients. Deepening integrations with enterprise systems. Expanding deployment flexibility (GovCloud, hybrid cloud, on-premises). Continuing to improve AI relevance and search analytics. Winning more defense and regulated-industry contracts (as evidenced by the Air Force SBIR award).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Founded by veterans of Splunk and PagerDuty. The team is described as "growing with big ambitions" and dedicated to improving workplace efficiency. The founders emphasize building "the company we've always dreamed of."
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Fully remote-first culture. The team is distributed across Toronto, Nashville, Vancouver, San Francisco, Halifax, Denver, and beyond. The company has two physical offices (likely Denver and one in Canada) but employees work remotely. The founders note they "always worked remote" and designed the company to be distributed from the start.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Engineers work on a technically challenging product (AI, search, security, cloud infrastructure). The company is model-agnostic, meaning engineers get exposure to multiple LLMs and cloud providers. The self-hosted nature means deep work on infrastructure, security, and performance. Small, growing team offers significant ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [atolio.com](https://www.atolio.com/)
2. [atolio.com/about](https://www.atolio.com/about-atolio)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Atolio)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/atolio)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/atolio)

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