Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Menlo Park) Job at Greylock, Mountain View, CA

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  • Greylock
  • Mountain View, CA

Job Description

One of Greylock's Series A investments in data privacy/governance is looking to grow their team. The founding and executive team are repeat founders with have over 70 patents between them and are backed by one of the top investors in cybersecurity. They are expanding the engineering team and are hiring across a few open roles.

The company is building a graph powered metadata lake that will allow enterprises far deeper visibility, security and control over their data assets than exist on the market today. With agentic AI workflows, the platform will allow seamless interaction, insights and querying across data all whilst keeping security and compliance as the primary focus.

Location: Menlo Park, hybrid 3 days

Stage: Series A

Team: ~20 people

Ideal profile: 5 to 10+ yrs of software engineering experience (sorry, no new grads at this time)

Technical Skills & Experience:

  • Extensive experience in backend software engineering , with a focus on distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and building scalable, high-performance systems.

  • Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Java, Go, Python, C++, or similar, with a deep understanding of language-specific best practices, performance optimization, and concurrency.

  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts such as fault tolerance, CAP theorem, consistency models, partitioning, replication, and event-driven architecture.

  • Experience with microservices architecture , containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Mesos).

  • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), including services like EC2, S3, RDS, and managed Kubernetes services.

  • In-depth understanding of data storage systems , including SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, and distributed data stores.

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About Greylock:

Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable company exits including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, Palo Alto Networks, among others. More can be found about us here:

About the Greylock Recruiting team and me:

As full-time, salaried employees of Greylock, our team provides free candidate referrals/introductions to our active investments to help them grow/succeed (as one of the many services we provide). Our recruiting team, combined, has over 125 years of in-house recruiting experience at successful startups through FAANG’s and over 30 years of VC Talent.

My particular focus within our recruiting team is back end, infrastructure engineers. Over the past ten years, I have helped teams and organizations grow their back-end engineering teams across a range of expertises from traffic infrastructure, compilers, distributed computing, large scale caching systems, security infrastructure and more.

How We Work:

I will contact anyone who looks like a potential match and work to schedule a call with you immediately. Once contacted, I'll explain our VC Recruiting model, spend some time getting to know you better, and discuss various opportunities as well.

Job Tags

Full time, Immediate start,

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