Backend Engineer – Evidence & Audit Pipeline (Senior)

Backend Engineer – Evidence & Audit Pipeline (Senior)

Experience band: 7–10 years

Builds the tamper-evident audit trail that regulators and auditors will inspect.

Responsibilities

• Builds a Kafka consumer service that canonicalises request records, hash-chains them and writes them to write-once object storage

• Integrates with the client SIEM (syslog, CEF or Splunk HEC) and builds chain-verification tooling

• Designs retention, legal hold and cryptographic purge for personal data

Must have

• 7+ years in backend engineering (Go, Java or Python)

• Kafka, S3-compatible object storage, PostgreSQL

• Applied cryptography basics: hashing, signing, key management

Nice to have

• Experience with audit or compliance data in banking or financial services

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