Backend Software Engineer

Job Description

Nightfall AI is seeking a Backend Engineer to contribute to their unified platform that prevents data leaks and enables secure collaboration. The engineer will help deliver the platform reliably, securely, and at a massive scale. They will architect low latency, real-time microservices that process and detect sensitive data at scale. The company is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping organizations secure and manage their sensitive data.Responsibilities include:

• Building highly available and secure authentication and API services.
• Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services.
• Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services.
• Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer.
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.

Requirements include:

• Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.
• Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9’s) systems.
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
• Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
• 8+ years of experience

Nightfall AI offers:

• Opportunity to work on a platform that protects sensitive data and enables secure collaboration.