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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Ambient Inc.
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Apache ActiveMQ, Adobe Creative Cloud, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Signals Intelligence, Cyber Security, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Database Design, DevOps, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Language Modeling, MySQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Performance Tuning, Systems Development Life Cycle, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cloud Services, Smart Devices, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Web Services, Scripting, Google Cloud, Data Storage Technologies, ReactJS, Indexer, Backend, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Restful APIs, Cisco, Servicenow, Microservices
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/sr-software-engineer-full-stack-redwood-city-ca--6cc655d2-146b-4e62-abbf-141fadbb7c70

## About the Role

* BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background
 * At least 4+ years of experience building scalable and available web services.
 * Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages, like Python, Django, and React.js, would be required
 * Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems
 * Write clean and maintainable code
 * Design and implement complex systems including communication between several services (pub-sub paradigm, microservices architecture)
 * Manage service reliability, including any cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud)
 * Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar tools/technologies will be highly preferred
 * Experience building SaaS product offerings will be a huge advantage., Access Control, Adobe Product Family, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache ActiveMQ, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cisco Network Systems, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Computer Security, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Database Design, DevOps, Django, Federal Laws and Regulations, Fortune 500 Customers, Genetics, GraphQL, Legal, LinkedIn, Machine Tool, Marketing, Microservices, Military, Modeling Languages, MySQL, Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Languages, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Physical Security, PostgreSQL, Product Design, Product Development, Python Programming/Scripting Language, REST (Representational State Transfer), RabbitMQ, React.js, Redis, Scalable System Development, Security Infrastructure, ServiceNow, Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Software Engineering, Software as a Service (SaaS), Team Player, Web Design, Web Services, YouTube

## Description

We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale the core systems that power Ambient.ai's real-time AI security platform. In this role, you'll work on software that ingests, processes, and interprets massive volumes of video and event data in real time - transforming raw signals into actionable intelligence for some of the world's largest enterprises.

You can expect to regularly take on technically challenging problems in a fast-moving, collaborative environment and to see your work deployed in mission-critical customer environments.

What you'll do:

 * Build and maintain full stack features using React, TypeScript and Python
 * Partner with product and design to translate user needs into intuitive interfaces and high quality workflows
 * Create and maintain APIs and backend services. This includes working with data flows between edge devices, cloud services and client applications
 * Optimize performance across the stack with a focus on responsiveness, reliability and scalability
 * Contribute to architectural decisions including data storage, caching, service boundaries and partitioning
 * Review code, mentor other engineers and promote strong engineering practices
 * Work with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps tooling
 * Participate in planning, design reviews and cross-team collaboration


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