Software Engineer - Backend (Product)
About The Position
Ambient.ai is a leader in Agentic Physical Security, using its Ambient Pulsar reasoning Vision-Language Model to integrate with security cameras and access control systems. The platform enhances monitoring, access control, threat assessment, response, and investigations, leading to significant improvements in efficiency and response times. The company has experienced substantial growth, processes a vast amount of video data daily, and serves major clients. Founded in 2017 and backed by prominent investors, Ambient.ai aims to prevent security incidents. This role focuses on designing and building the backend systems that power Ambient.ai's product for enterprise security teams. The APIs and services developed will be directly used by operators in Fortune 500 companies for security event management. The engineer will own a core product area from concept to scaled production, collaborating with cross-functional teams and working on both new features and existing systems.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with meaningful time on user-facing web or mobile products.
- Strong Python skills and production experience with Flask, Django, or FastAPI.
- Solid API design instincts across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC, and a clear point of view on what makes an interface clean.
- Comfort modeling data across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and vector stores, with a sense of the tradeoffs between them.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- A track record of debugging hard production issues and shipping the fix.
Nice To Haves
- Real-time systems experience: WebSockets, server-sent events, pub/sub, or streaming pipelines.
- Working knowledge of TypeScript and a modern frontend framework like React or Vue, enough to read frontend code and reason about end-to-end flows.
- Background in any of: video infrastructure, computer vision applications, notification and alert routing, or LLM and agentic applications.
- Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS into large enterprise deployments.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship backend APIs and services, from 0-to-1 prototypes through enterprise rollout.
- Own a product area end to end: data modeling, API design, performance, reliability, and operational health.
- Partner with product, design, and frontend to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical plans.
- Tune performance and reliability under real production load, including peaks from real-time alert pipelines.
- Build the monitoring, logging, and alerting needed to catch issues before customers do.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, code reviews, and team standards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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