Backend Software Engineer
Backend Software Engineer
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Nightfall AI www.nightfall.ai is the unified platform that prevents data leaks and enables secure collaboration by protecting sensitive data and controlling how its shared. For decades legacy data leak prevention (DLP) solutions have failed to adequately protect sensitive information. Traditional DLP is outdated intrusive and complex it wasnt designed for todays modern enterprise where users continuously share data across interconnected SaaS applications endpoints and now generative AI. Nightfall AI is the first AInative DLP solution. We leverage AI to achieve twice the accuracy with a fraction of the false positives that overwhelm security teams. Nightfall does this without disrupting modern work patterns. Our AInative platform spans sensitive data protection across SaaS email data exfiltration prevention on SaaS endpoints and data encryption. Nightfalls Developer Platform provides an open flexible environment for developers to integrate our data classification and protection capabilities anywhere including establishing trust boundaries for AI model building and consumption.
As a Backend Engineer at Nightfall youll enable us to deliver our platform reliably securely and at a massive scale. Youll help architect low latency realtime microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.
Responsibilities
- Building highly available and secure authentication and API services.
- Maintaining and evolving missioncritical internal databases and services.
- Optimizing and operating high volume autoscaling streaming data services.
- Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer.
- Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.
Requirements
- Expertise in one or more systems/highlevel programming languages (e.g. Python Go Java C) and the eagerness to learn more.
- Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9s) 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 largescale 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 realtime complex data processing pipelines using Kafka Hadoop Hive Storm or Zookeeper
- 8 years of experience
About Nightfall:
Nightfall is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping organizations secure and manage their sensitive data. As a leading enterprise technology company our product affects the personal data that people entrust businesses to store & process with care every day. Critical data in modern organizations is often sprayed across a broad set of cloud data silos and its a herculean task for security & compliance teams to monitor manage and protect this highly sensitive data. Via machine learning our product makes it easy for organizations to discover classify and protect this sensitive data across their cloud footprint such as their corporate SaaS data infrastructure and even their own apps. In doing so we prevent data leakage provide unprecedented data visibility & protection across the cloud and enable compliance. Were a technology startup founded in San Francisco wellfunded by leading institutional investors like Bain and Venrock and a cadre of security & IT leaders from Okta Salesforce Atlassian Splunk FireEye and more. Learn more on our website www.nightfall.ai or by reaching out via email at
Employment Type
Full Time
