Backend Software Engineer

Join a small cybersecurity engineering team building an AI-powered platform that detects account compromise in real time. You will own critical backend and distributed systems infrastructure as the platform scales.

• Design and build systems for real-time signal ingestion behavioral analysis and AI-powered decision-making.
• Architect backend infrastructure to support significant growth in scale.
• Ship machine learning and AI-integrated systems into production.
• Establish engineering patterns and contribute to raising the teams technical standards.
• Partner with company leadership to evolve the core detection platform.

• Four to eight years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering.
• Experience building high-stakes data-intensive systems end to end such as real-time ingestion pipelines databases or distributed processing systems.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems architecture and database scaling ideally in a startup environment with broad ownership.
• Ability to scope design and ship projects independently.
• Proficiency in performance-oriented languages such as TypeScript Python Go Rust Java or C.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and experience in cybersecurity high-growth startups or quantitative and trading environments.

Base salary: $190000 to $275000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site in San Francisco United States.