Senior Backend Engineer, Autonomous Defense

Role overview

Build the production platform that lets autonomous security agents run reliably and safely across customer environments. This senior backend role focuses on distributed systems and platform engineering: durable agent workflows, controlled access to security tools, guarded changes, tenant isolation, and traceable operations. It partners with AI researchers and security specialists to move agent capabilities from prototypes into dependable product features.

Responsibilities - Design and operate an agent runtime that supports long-running, resumable workflows, checkpoints, cancellation, idempotent steps, and timeouts. - Build a versioned tool registry with schema checks, tenant-level configuration, and authorization enforced by backend services. - Develop connectors for security products and services such as endpoint protection, firewalls, identity systems, SIEM, and cloud IAM. - Implement safeguards for proposed changes, including simulations, impact assessment, approvals, staged rollout, rollback, and immutable audit records. - Strengthen tenant isolation for agents that can make changes, covering execution boundaries, outbound access, quotas, and shared data stores or logs. - Create data pipelines and product APIs for agent context, run history, remediation status, and research datasets; add tracing and per-tenant cost accounting.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field. - At least seven years of professional software engineering experience with a modern programming language. - Experience designing and operating distributed systems and applications on a cloud platform. - Strong SQL proficiency and experience with containers such as Docker and Kubernetes. - Ability to build production systems with appropriate authorization, reliability, observability, and tenant isolation. - Effective collaboration with research, engineering, and product partners to shape and deliver platform capabilities.

Benefits and work setup

The listing describes the organization as remote and gives a base salary range of $170,000–$235,000 annually, with the final amount based on location and qualifications. Full-time roles are eligible for stock options; the listing also mentions health insurance, flexible vacation, and parental leave.