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# Senior Software Engineer (Athena)

- **Company:** REMOTE HAND
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $157,000.0 - $184,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Architectural Patterns, Code Review, Fault Tolerance, Open Source Technology, Parsing, Unstructured Data, Data Processing, Google Cloud, Backend, Virtual Agents, Terraform, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pmw1nm53fu

## About the Role

* Proven backend engineering experience with production system development and maintenance
 * Strong proficiency in Go programming language; experience with Google Cloud Platform and Terraform
 * Analytical approach to handling unstructured data challenges such as parsing, validating, and deduplicating
 * Experience with operational excellence practices including monitoring, alerting, and graceful degradation
 * Ability to independently scope and deliver features
 * Familiarity with Agentic AI workflows
 * Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is advantageous
 * Knowledge of security or infrastructure domains
 * Preferred: Experience with security vulnerability management, coordinated disclosure, or CVE publication processes

## Description

The SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (ATHENA) will contribute to building and maintaining Athena, a system designed to secure the open source supply chain at enterprise scale. This role focuses on developing core backend components, handling complex data processing, and implementing scalable architectural solutions. The position directly impacts the reliability and effectiveness of security workflows, supporting enterprise customers in remediation efforts., * Develop and maintain backend systems in Go on Google Cloud Platform, including customer onboarding, entitlement logic, and data pipelines

 * Own and drive ambiguous problems and specific features from design through to production with testing and observability
 * Collaborate with senior engineers to implement scalable architectural patterns
 * Process unstructured data from enterprise customers into validated, structured outputs
 * Design and operate automated workflows for complex multi-step tasks across production systems
 * Participate in on-call rotations and incident response activities
 * Lead multi-engineer efforts for core subsystems over extended periods
 * Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve engineering standards
 * Develop infrastructure-as-code and operational tools using Terraform and GCP-native solutions