Backend Engineer – Philippines

Bitdefender

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Manila remote Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 21, 2025 Last posted March 21, 2025
Job description
We are looking for motivated backend software engineers to join our engineering team as part of a high-growth B2B SaaS company. You will be designing and building in the Cloud, processing data at scale, analysing real-world cloud data for security vulnerabilities and risks and delivering high fidelity alerts to our customers.

You have a strong interest in cloud technology and enjoy the fast-paced and dynamic culture of building in the Cloud. You have a builder mindset and are always curious about emerging cloud technology. You enjoy using open-source tools, appreciate containerisation technology, and have a strong interest in security in the cloud.

You are an individual who is humble, values feedback, is curious and eager to be part of a winning team that is distributed in Europe and Asia to build a SaaS product that secures cloud infrastructure across the top Cloud Service Providers like AWS, GCP and Azure.

About the Role

  • Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle with Agile Scrum methodology and deliver new features on a continuous basis, while maintaining and scaling existing features
  • Design and implement event-driven services in AWS with Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, Neptune)
  • Development on our data ingestion and processing pipelines that handle massive data processing workload
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize the performance of our backend data processing services
  • Optimize our application framework that runs security rules written by our cybersecurity specialists
  • Own internal API and data query services that provides data access across internal teams

About You

  • You have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
  • You have at least 2 years of experience in software engineering with a proven record of accomplishment of building in the cloud
  • You are experienced with designing and building applications in AWS and building serverless with CDK and Serverless-Stack
  • You are proficient in backend development using Python
  • You enjoy working in an Agile environment that practices 100% Continuous Integration and Delivery
  • You think about how to test codes before writing them
  • You believe in our philosophy of "You Built It, You Deploy It"

Bonus Points if You Have

  • AWS and/or GCP cloud certifications
  • Golang experience
  • NoSQL experience
  • Relevant Information security certifications, e.g. CCSP, OSCP, CISSP, SANS
  • Prior experience in cybersecurity or intelligence fields
Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumer, enterprise, and government environments, Bitdefender is one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy, digital identity and data, and enabling cyber resilience.

With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers hundreds of new threats each minute and validates billions of threat queries daily. The company has pioneered breakthrough innovations in antimalware, IoT security, behavioural analytics, and artificial intelligence and its technology is licensed by more than 180 of the world’s most recognized technology brands.

Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has customers in 170+ countries with offices around the world. For more information, visit https://www.bitdefender.com
About this role

Summary

Design and build cloud applications, process data, and optimize backend services.

Job title

Backend Engineer

Experience level

2+ years

Industry

cybersecurity

Location requirements

Located in Manila, remote work not allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

computer sciencesoftware engineeringAWSserverlessPythonAgile

Preferred skills

AWS certificationGCP certificationGolangNoSQLinformation security

Specializations

cloudbackendsecurityAWSAgile
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

On-site City
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