Senior Agentic Engineer, AI Platform
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Job Summary
About Nightfall:
Nightfall is the AI-native unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps GenAI tools email endpoint devices and more. Hundreds of customers spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.
Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec) Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare) WestBridge Capital Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash) and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta) Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay) Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard) Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant) and many others.
About the role:
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Nightfall youll enable us to deliver our platform reliably securely and at a massive scale. Youll help architect low latency real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.
Responsibilities
Building highly available and secure authentication and API services.
Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services.
Architecting optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling reliable real-time data infrastructure and services for supporting semantic and classic search.
Architecting agentic systems to perform highly concurrent workflows while optimizing LLM accuracy cost and scalability.
Building Observability at scale for detailed insights into customer usage and performance.
Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.
Requirements
Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming languages (e.g. Python Go Java C) and the eagerness to learn more.
Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9s) systems.
Solid experience with building Search and Agentic AI systems at massive scale: ingestion text summarization semantic and classic search and agent orchestration. Experience with evals is a plus.
Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment monitoring and reliability.
Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL e.g. Postgres Cassandra)
Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka Flink Snowflake Hadoop or Zookeeper
8 years of experience with proven technical leadership and prowess in scalable distributed architectures
Environment
Nightfall AI takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit qualifications and business needs.
Compensation
Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance level of experience specialization of skills and market rate. During the offer discussion your recruiter will review the finalized base salary bonus (for applicable roles) benefits & perks and stock options as theyll be reflected in the offer letter.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Nightfall uses AI to protect sensitive data like secrets and PII where today’s end-users work: across Gen AI apps, SaaS, email, and device. Data loss protection for the AI era.
