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Backend Engineer (Go / Security Platforms)
Posted: 02/02/2026
Employment Type:
Contract
Category: Information Technology
Job Number: 28927
Pay Rate: $70.00 - $112.00 per hour (W2)
Job Description
Title: Senior Backend Engineer (Go / Security Platforms)
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.-based)
Job Type: Contract (12 months - W2 only)
Compensation: $70Â - $112Â per hour (W2)
Industry: Retail
Required Skills: Go (Golang), Cybersecurity, Temporal Workflows, Data Pipelines & Event?Driven Systems, Secure Storage & Cryptography
About the Role
We are partnering with a large, technology-driven consumer enterprise to hire a Backend Engineer who will help advance a highly scalable, security-focused detection platform. This role sits within a core engineering team responsible for building secure, high-throughput backend systems that protect sensitive data at enterprise scale. The ideal candidate will have strong Go experience and a passion for designing resilient, secure, and observable systems.
Job Description
In this role, you will design, build, and maintain backend services that support detection pipelines, secrets management, and asynchronous orchestration. You will work closely with platform, data, and security engineers to deliver scalable and secure solutions used across a large, distributed organization.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and enhancing a high?performance backend detection platform, including consumer rule processors, event producers, APIs, and asynchronous workflows
- Owning secrets management workflows backed by Vault and KMS-style encryption services, including reviewing and hardening key usage and lifecycle management
- Designing and optimizing PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and queries to support high?throughput workloads
- Troubleshooting and scaling event-driven pipelines using Kafka and similar stream-processing tools, with a focus on idempotency, backpressure, and reliability
- Implementing and improving observability through logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Strengthening engineering practices through improved test coverage, CI/CD pipeline enhancements, and optimized container-based development workflows
Qualifications
Required
- 4+ years of hands-on Go development with goroutines, channels, and experience building high concurrency systems
- 2+ years of cyber security engineering experience (Threat Intelligence, SIEM, SOC automation, YARA / Sigma)
- 2+ years building data movement or pipeline platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, pub/sub, event-driven architecture, stream processing)
- Experience with secure storage and cryptographic platforms (AWS KMS or Vault), HMAC signatures, least privilege IAM policies, secrets management
- Experience building Temporal Workflows (Temporal SDK, Workflows, Activities, determinism best practices)
Benefits
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.
How to Apply
Take the first step on your new career path! To submit yourself for consideration for this role, simply click the apply button and complete our mobile-friendly online application. Once we’ve reviewed your application details, a recruiter will reach out to you with next steps!
Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!
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