Software Engineer Remote
California, CA - USA
Job Summary
Job Title: Software Engineer
Job Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Job Summary:We are looking for experienced software engineers to help train and evaluate next-generation AI systems through real-world software engineering tasks. This role is best suited for developers who can reason through unfamiliar codebases explain engineering decisions clearly and solve practical backend full-stack systems or infrastructure-related problems.
A Cybersecurity/SecOps background or exposure is highly preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work on challenging software engineering tasks across backend full-stack infrastructure and systems-related projects.
- Review debug improve and explain code across different technical environments.
- Design or evaluate practical solutions involving APIs databases services integrations testing and deployment workflows.
- Identify tradeoffs around scalability maintainability performance reliability security and developer experience.
- Communicate technical reasoning clearly in writing including why a solution works and what alternatives were considered.
- Collaborate with the customers team on technical reviews implementation decisions and problem-solving exercises.
- Adapt quickly to new codebases frameworks and technical requirements.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 3 years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Strong experience in at least one backend or full-stack engineering environment such as Python JavaScript/TypeScript Java C Go or Rust
- Experience building maintaining or reviewing production-level applications APIs services databases or integrations.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including debugging testing code quality architecture and technical tradeoffs.
- Ability to explain complex engineering decisions clearly and objectively.
- Comfortable reading and reasoning through unfamiliar code or technical requirements
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS GCP or Azure.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps workflows containers monitoring or production operations.
- Experience with frontend frameworks such as React Angular Vue or React Native.
- Open-source contributions public GitHub work technical writing or strong examples of past engineering work.
- Experience mentoring engineers reviewing code or making architecture decisions.