Backend Software Engineer

• 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, Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and experience in cybersecurity, high-growth startups, or quantitative and trading environments.

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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 team’s technical standards.
• Partner with company leadership to evolve the core detection platform.