Senior Software Engineer - Middleware

Dropzone AI

33d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer, Middleware will design and deliver the control-plane capabilities that power Dropzone AI’s autonomous investigation platform. You’ll own the systems that orchestrate investigations end-to-end—configuration, policy, scheduling, workflow, reporting—and make it easy for customers and internal teams to operate at scale.

Requirements

6+ years of backend engineering experience, including leading projects from design to production.
Strong Python backend skills (clean, maintainable code; async where it counts) and service/API fundamentals.
Experience building control-plane or platform/middleware systems (workflow engines, schedulers, policy/rules, config).
Solid data modeling and operational chops with Postgres and a queue/stream (e.g., Celery/Redis, Pub/Sub, etc).
Deep understanding of reliability patterns: idempotency, retries, timeouts, rate limiting, consistency trade-offs.
Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution
Being data-driven is part of your DNA.

Responsibilities

Lead design and implementation of control-plane services (APIs, schedulers, workflow/rules engines, config & policy management).
Build features around reporting/analytics, global alert filters/policies, re-investigation flows, and customer-visible auditability.
Evolve multi-tenant, role-aware “organization & permissions” models; ensure safe, idempotent, and rate-limited operations.
Define and version public/internal APIs
Partner with AI Core, Security Integrations, and GTM to prioritize roadmap and translate ambiguity into shipped outcomes.
Provide mentorship and raise the bar on code quality, design reviews, and operational excellence.
Drive quality through automated testing, performance monitoring, and secure coding practices.
Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.