Software Engineer – Platform/Infrastructure

Recruiting From Scratch • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our client is building next-generation cybersecurity infrastructure focused on human risk intelligence. Their AI-native platform identifies behavioral security risks and automatically deploys interventions that improve enterprise security posture at scale. Backed by leading venture investors and founded by proven operators from category-defining security companies, they are rapidly scaling a highly technical engineering organization. This is an opportunity to build the infrastructure backbone powering large-scale data ingestion, processing, and real-time decisioning systems.

Requirements

• 4–8 years of backend/platform engineering experience
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals
• Production infrastructure ownership
• Real-time systems experience
• Data pipeline / ETL systems experience
• Cloud infrastructure expertise (AWS/GCP)
• Kafka / streaming systems exposure
• Strong systems design capability
• Platform scalability experience
• Infrastructure reliability mindset

Nice To Haves

• High-growth startup platform engineering
• Data infrastructure ownership
• Real-time event-driven systems
• Backend platform scaling experience
• Strong observability / reliability practices
• Cross-functional collaboration with ML/data teams
• Cloud cost optimization experience
• Internal tooling development
• Secure infrastructure design
• Infrastructure abstraction building
• Fast-moving engineering environments
• High autonomy

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend infrastructure systems
• Build and operate real-time and batch data processing systems
• Develop platform services supporting high-throughput data workflows
• Build compute, storage, orchestration, and platform tooling
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance
• Collaborate closely with data and ML teams
• Support production data ingestion and serving infrastructure
• Optimize systems for scalability and cloud efficiency
• Build internal abstractions and developer tooling
• Drive infrastructure consistency and engineering velocity
• Contribute to secure, compliant infrastructure design
• Help scale platform architecture as product adoption accelerates

Benefits

• Competitive equity
• Health / dental / vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• High ownership
• Technical autonomy
• Fast-moving engineering culture
• Opportunity to build foundational infrastructure

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed