Backend Engineer
DepthFirstApplication Security company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Lead backend engineering for AI-native platform to find and fix software vulnerabilities.
- •We’re seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to lead the charge in building the world’s first AI-native platform that autonomously finds and fixes software vulnerabilities in code.
- •Key Responsibilities Be a Technical Leader: Provide mentorship, set technical direction, and define best practices for backend engineering at depthfirst.
- •Architect and Scale complex coding agent pipelines that scan and execute very large codebases to find the most intricate vulnerability.
- •Build, Maintain and Evolve evaluation benchmarks for AI agents that reflects the problems our users face Take Ownership of our product, contributing to its architecture, performance, and long-term success Work on a Product that Solves a Critical Problem
- •and we already have a handful of customers who have found it valuable in fixing some eye-opening vulnerabilities within the first few days of using our product.
- •Requirements 3+ years of full-time experience in backend software engineering A passion for programming and solving problems with code.
- •Building reliable and stable products to solve real user problems Familiarity with multiple languages is a plus.
- •Our stack is Typescript/Python A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems Capable of solving complex problems with simple solutions.
- •Building reliable and scalable products, making right trade-offs along the way A tendency to leave things in a better way than you found it
Required skills
TypeScriptPythonEngineering Management
Nice-to-have skills
A/B TestingAgile
Domain expertise
cybersecurity
Benefits & perks
Competitive Salary with meaningful equity, Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance, Office lunch and dinner (when working from our San Francisco office)
Tech stack
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsPostgreSQLRedisLLMsAWS