Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Nightfall AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. Nightfall AI is the unified platform that prevents data leaks and enables secure collaboration by protecting sensitive data and controlling how it's shared. The Senior Backend Engineer will play a crucial role in delivering Nightfall's platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale to enable secure collaboration by protecting sensitive data. This is a hybrid role based out of their San Francisco office.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to identify customer needs and build innovative solutions.
• Design and implement new features and lead the shipping of these features into production
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services
• Implement best practices in a fast-paced engineering environment
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to ensure that product quality and performance SLAs are consistently met.

Requirements:

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on technical development experience
• Experience programming in Go, C++, Java or related language
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
• Experience designing and building systems in a microservices-based architecture
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
• A foundational understanding of multi-threaded programming, concurrency primitives, and data structures
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Nightfall offers:

• Hybrid work environment