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This is your opportunity to play a crucial role in building secure serverless platform and other parts of Acronis technological stack. As well as building a great team of software engineers in Acronis US office.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Design, develop and maintain backend services (Go/Python) for new and currently existing features of Acronis Cyber Protect & Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud solutions
Translate software requirements into stable, quality, high performance code; write tests, perform code reviews
Collaborate closely with other team members and teams
Manage a group of junior/middle/senior backend engineers: planning, work decomposition, progress tracking, quality control, mentoring, driving/adjusting processed in the team, making decisions, tech. leadership
Develop and maintain scalable and resilient cloud solutions using Go Lang and Python.
Perform code reviews and implement security enhancements to align with industry best practices.
Work closely with the security team to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the Acronis Cyber Cloud platform.
Analyze, optimize, and ensure the performance and reliability of solutions.
Guide and mentor team members in adopting secure software development practices.
WHAT YOU BRING
8+ years of backend development experience in commercial projects
6+ years of Go/Python development experience
4+ years of small/medium size team management experience
Hands-on HTTP/Authentication/WebServices/REST API knowledge
Work experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/MSSQL)
TCP/IP stack knowledge & network related programming experience
Multi-threaded programming experience
Linux advanced user
Hands-on Docker+Kubernetes experience
Work experience with Redis, RabbitMQ (or similar solutions)
Understanding of distributed systems problems and solutions
Git advanced user
Good written and spoken English to communicate efficiently with other teams and team members
Work experience with Cassandra is desired
C/C++ basic knowledge
Atlassian stack (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence)
*Please submit your resume and application in English
WHO WE ARE
Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), enterprise IT departments and home users. Our all-in-one solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. We offer the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with our unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis offers over twenty years of innovation with 15 offices worldwide and more than 1800 employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.
Our corporate culture is focused on making a positive impact on the lives of each employee and the communities we serve. Mutual trust, respect and belief that we can contribute to the world everyday are the cornerstones of our team. Each member of our “A-Team” plays an instrumental role in driving the success of our innovative and expanding business. We seek individuals who excel in dynamic, global environments and have a never give up attitude, contributing to our collective growth and impact.
Our Interview Practices
To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process.
Use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during live interviews may be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process and a full criminal, education and identification background check is required for all new hires.
Acronis is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
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