Endor Labs

<h2>About Us</h2> <p>Endor Labs is building the Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate—enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster. </p><p>Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting edge Bazel Monorepos. Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures.</p><p>Sound interesting? Let’s talk if you want to be part of the next big leap in security innovation!</p><h2>How You'll Make an Impact</h2> <p>As a Senior Technical Customer Success Architect at Endor Labs, you own our most strategic, highest-ARR accounts, acting as the senior relationship owner and trusted advisor to security and engineering leadership on the customer side. You're technical enough to understand everything happening in a modern AppSec program, but your primary value is strategic: aligning our platform to enterprise security and business outcomes, orchestrating multiple workstreams across teams, and getting ahead of risk before it threatens the relationship.</p><ul><li><strong>Own Strategic Accounts:</strong> Own a defined, high-ARR book of business, responsible for driving adoption, retention, expansion, and overall customer satisfaction, and building multi-threaded relationships across security, engineering, and executive stakeholders.</li><li><strong>Act as a Strategic Partner:</strong> Orchestrate cross-functional internal teams and engage executive, technical, and business stakeholders to understand customer goals and translate them into a clear, deliverable value narrative.</li><li><strong>Confirm and Communicate Value:</strong> Proactively build and maintain executive relationships, run structured business reviews, and analyze adoption and usage trends to quantify value delivered, identify gaps, and drive financially grounded commercial recommendations and expansion opportunities.</li><li><strong>Coordinate Complex Workstreams:</strong> Create and manage account plans covering the entire customer journey, and use project management skills to plan, track, and deliver customer enablement and success initiatives across multiple stakeholders.</li><li><strong>Guide Rollout and Adoption:</strong> Assist customers with creating and delivering rollout plans, security policies, and integrated SDLC processes; onboard AppSec and development teams; and run consultation calls and enablement sessions to drive adoption and utilization.</li><li><strong>Customer Enablement:</strong> Guide and train your customers in using the Endor Labs Platform.</li><li><strong>Manage Risk Proactively:</strong> Identify technical, organizational, and relationship risk early, ensure critical issues are well-documented and escalated expeditiously with management, and drive resolution before issues threaten the relationship.</li><li><strong>Coordinate Escalations:</strong> Coordinate responses to questions, issues, and escalations by working closely with Support, Product Management, Sales, Professional Services, and other teams, providing oversight to ensure a consistently positive customer experience.</li><li><strong>Provide High-End Consulting:</strong> Bring a point of view on AppSec strategy, prioritization, and program maturity, understanding the technologies, constraints, and challenges connected with implementing an application security program; act as a trusted advisor rather than a ticket-solver.</li><li><strong>Stay Current and Educate:</strong> Stay current on platform and product releases, educate customers on new features and capabilities, and help them apply these to their environments and use cases.</li><li><strong>Serve as Customer Advocate:</strong> Capture customer feedback and report requests to Product Management and Engineering, and share account health via regular reporting to management and internal stakeholders.</li><li><strong>Collaborate with Sales:</strong> Partner with the Sales team on account strategy, identifying opportunities for expansion and additional products or services within your accounts.</li><li><strong>Elevate Team Practices:</strong> Manage your time to focus on the activities that most move the needle for satisfaction, renewal, and growth, and share best practices with teammates to raise the bar for the whole team.</li></ul> <h2>What You Bring to the Table</h2> <ul><li><strong>Proven Strategic Account Experience:</strong> 8+ years in customer success, account management, or consulting roles managing enterprise, high-ARR accounts, ideally in B2B SaaS or security.</li><li><strong>Technical Fluency:</strong> A strong technical foundation; comfortable discussing application security, software supply chain, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices, and understanding the technologies and constraints of an application security program, without needing to be the one implementing fixes.</li><li><strong>Executive Presence:</strong> Demonstrated ability to build trust and influence at the VP/C-level, running business reviews and navigating complex, multi-stakeholder organizations.</li><li><strong>Program, Account &amp; Risk Management:</strong> A track record of building account plans, coordinating multi-workstream initiatives with strong project management discipline, managing competing priorities, and identifying and mitigating account risk before it escalates.</li><li><strong>Data-Driven:</strong> Comfortable analyzing adoption and usage data to extract insights, quantify value delivered, and turn findings into concrete commercial recommendations.</li><li><strong>Consultative Mindset:</strong> A strategic advisor's instinct; able to diagnose a customer's broader security program maturity and guide them toward outcomes, not just answer the immediate question.</li><li><strong>Exceptional Communicator:</strong> Able to translate technical detail into business language for executives, and business priorities into technical direction for engineering teams.</li><li><strong>AI-Augmented Efficiency:</strong> Comfortable using AI agents and tools such as Claude to research accounts, prepare for meetings, and streamline day-to-day workflows, freeing up more time for high-value customer engagement.</li></ul> <h2>Why Endor Labs</h2> <p>We’re building at the intersection of developer productivity and security — one of the fastest-growing spaces in software. Our dev-loved platform has real ROI, strong momentum, and customers who care about doing things right.</p><p>At Endor Labs, we think big, start small, and learn fast. We take ownership, move with purpose, and always start with the customer’s success. We debate with data, make the complex simple, and challenge each other with kindness and candor. We celebrate wins, learn from misses, and have fun along the way — because when our customers win, we all win.</p><p><strong>Endor Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.</strong> We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Even if you don't fit every requirement above, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and experiences, so we encourage all talented individuals to apply—there's no one-size-fits-all here.</p>

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<p>This role is based in Palo Alto, California, and follows a hybrid work model. If you’re excited about helping build a large-scale SaaS platform at an early-stage company and the qualifications below align with your background, we’d love to connect!</p><h2>About Us</h2> <p>Endor Labs is building the Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate—enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster. </p><p>Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting edge Bazel Monorepos. Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures.</p><p>Sound interesting? Let’s talk if you want to be part of the next big leap in security innovation!</p><h2>The Role</h2> <p>We are looking for a Principal Member of Technical Staff to join our engineering organization as a cross-cutting technical leader. This is a pure individual contributor role with significant architectural influence. You will work across teams to tackle our hardest backend scaling, reliability, and security product challenges.</p><p>As a Principal MTS, you will set technical direction, drive architecture evolution, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization. You will partner closely with engineering leadership, product, and other senior technologists to translate business and customer needs into scalable, high-performance systems.</p><p>This role is ideal for someone who has built and scaled security products before, thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, and has the rare combination of deep backend expertise and strong product instincts.</p><h2>How You'll Make an Impact</h2> <ul><li>Architect and evolve the core backend platform, including microservices, async processing pipelines, and data infrastructure.</li><li>Drive technical strategy and make high-impact design decisions that affect the entire product and engineering organization.</li><li>Design and build high-performance, reliable SaaS services that process security data at scale with low latency and high throughput.</li><li>Lead cross-team technical initiatives, collaborating with and through other senior engineers to ship complex features.</li><li>Mentor and elevate senior engineers through architecture reviews, design discussions, and hands-on pairing.</li><li>Partner with product leadership to shape the technical roadmap, balancing customer needs with long-term platform health.</li><li>Identify and resolve systemic performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and technical debt across the stack.</li><li>Contribute directly to code in Go, working within our Kubernetes-based infrastructure backed by MongoDB and Postgres.</li></ul> <h2>What you Bring to the Table</h2> <ul><li><strong>15+ years of software engineering experience</strong> with a strong backend focus. You have designed and built distributed systems, microservices architectures, and async workload processing at scale.</li><li><strong>Security product expertise.</strong> You have built or architected application security products before. Deep familiarity with AppSec, DevSecOps, or software supply chain security is strongly preferred.</li><li><strong>Strong product sense.</strong> You understand how to build SaaS products that are performant, reliable, and solve real customer problems. You think beyond the code to the user experience and business impact.</li><li><strong>Proficiency in Go</strong> with production experience in Kubernetes, MongoDB, and/or PostgreSQL. Familiarity with React on the frontend is a plus.</li><li><strong>Technical leadership at scale.</strong> You have set technical direction for engineering organizations, driven architecture decisions, and worked effectively with and through other senior technical leaders.</li><li><strong>Excellent communication and collaboration skills.</strong> You can motivate engineers, build consensus on technical approaches, and clearly articulate complex trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul> <p><strong>Bonus Points</strong></p><ul><li>Experience as a founding engineer or early-stage startup employee, where you built systems from zero to production.</li><li>Track record of building and scaling developer-facing products or platforms.</li><li>Background in startup environments with the scrappiness and ownership mindset that comes with it.</li><li>Contributions to open-source security tooling or research.</li></ul> <h2>Why Endor Labs</h2> <p>We’re building at the intersection of developer productivity and security — one of the fastest-growing spaces in software. Our dev-loved platform has real ROI, strong momentum, and customers who care about doing things right.</p><p>At Endor Labs, we think big, start small, and learn fast. We take ownership, move with purpose, and always start with the customer’s success. We debate with data, make the complex simple, and challenge each other with kindness and candor. We celebrate wins, learn from misses, and have fun along the way — because when our customers win, we all win.</p><p><strong>Endor Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.</strong> We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Even if you don't fit every requirement above, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and experiences, so we encourage all talented individuals to apply—there's no one-size-fits-all here.</p><p><strong>Compensation</strong></p><p>For candidates who receive an offer for this position, the compensation range is expected to be between $220,000 - $300,000. This may include additional incentives such as commission targets, restricted stock units, and/or bonuses, depending on the role.</p>

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