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Senior Engineer II, Proxy
About this role
Menlo Security is the leader in Browser Security for human and agentic workforces. Our mission is to enable humans and agents to connect, communicate, and collaborate securely, without compromise. The Menlo Browser Security Platform protects organizations from cyberattacks by stopping threats across the web, documents, and email before they reach the user. With Menlo Agent Runtime Security (MARS), that protection now extends to the AI agents working alongside every employee.
Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, to protect their most valuable asset, their data, and is backed by top-tier investors. We're hiring a senior engineer to join the team that owns the ingress proxy service. The proxy is the primary path into the product for most users. As AI adoption grows, our customers want one set of controls for both people and agents.
The ingress proxy is where those controls start, and you'll help extend it to cover agent traffic. Your decisions here directly affect security, performance. You'll join a small team that values autonomy and ships with little process overhead. You'll own features from design to production, and you'll help shape how the system evolves. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Strong Systems Programming Background: Solid hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems in Rust or Go, with a preference for languages that offer strong safety guarantees in critical applications.
Passion for the Craft: You care about building software the right way. Correctness, scalability, and maintainability matter to you beyond just getting a feature out the door. Focus on Performance Optimization: Demonstrated ability to optimize for latency and throughput in networked applications, using profiling tools and efficient concurrency models to handle demanding workloads. Security-Oriented Engineering Practices: Strong background in implementing secure systems, with a proactive approach to threat modeling, vulnerability mitigation, and ensuring data integrity in distributed environments.
Expertise in Asynchronous Programming: You've built and operated async services that handle high concurrency in production. You understand backpressure, cancellation, and the failure modes that come with non-blocking I/O. Problem-Solving for Legacy Rewrites: Experience uplifting legacy systems while they stay in production, moving traffic over safely and in stages, refactoring into more robust architectures, evaluating trade-offs in language choices while favoring those that align with long-term maintainability and security.