Senior Software Engineer, Protect (Contract Position)
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15 hours ago
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Job Summary
Who We Are
Pindrop is redefining trust in the digital age. Our patented voice and video authentication fraud detection and deepfake detection technologies protect some of the worlds largest banks insurers retailers and healthcare leaders. As AI-driven threats evolve in the form of synthetic voices deepfakes face swapping and more our solutions stay ahead helping ensure that the real human and the right human are recognized.
Pindrop is trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises to secure voice interactions and with $100M ARR were entering our next phase of innovation and growth backed by world-class investors including Andreessen Horowitz IVP and CapitalG.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer with strong backend fundamentals and hands-on experience supporting machine learning this role you will design build and maintain high-performance cloud-native services and APIs.
Golang is our primary backend language and you will work extensively with Go-based services in production. At the same time this role operates at the intersection of backend engineering and ML operationsyoull collaborate closely with ML engineers and research teams integrating models into scalable systems and supporting ML workflows often using Python.
We welcome candidates with prior backend experience in languages such as Java Scala or Python who are eager to ramp up in Go while working across both backend and ML-driven systems.
What Youll Do
Design develop test deploy and monitor high-performance backend services and APIs
Build and productionize backend services primarily in Golang
Work with Python-based ML and ML operations workflows including model integration and inference support
Collaborate closely with ML engineers and research teams to take models from experimentation to production
Develop and maintain services using AWS (Kinesis DynamoDB S3) and GCP native services
Deliver production-ready features end-to-end with a strong focus on scalability performance and security
Diagnose and resolve production issues using tools such as Prometheus Grafana Google Logging and Cloud Trace
Review code to uphold quality standards and promote best practices
Contribute to evolving backend and ML platform architecture
Participate in on-call rotation including required night and weekend coverage
Who You Are
A backend-focused engineer who enjoys working close to ML systems and data
Comfortable owning production services written in Go while collaborating across ML workflows
Able to bridge research prototypes and real-world scalable backend systems
Confident context-switching between writing backend code supporting ML pipelines and troubleshooting production issues
Highly aware of cloud scalability and operational impact when designing systems
Collaborative resilient and adaptable in fast-changing environments
Accountable and dependable with a strong track record of delivering production-quality systems
Your Skill Set
Must Have
7-10 years of software development experience
Strong backend engineering experience with exposure to ML systems or ML operations
Experience building production backend services in Golang (or strong backend experience in another language with willingness to ramp up in Go)
Proficiency in Python particularly in the context of ML data processing or ML operations
Experience designing and implementing scalable cloud-based APIs
Solid understanding of data structures algorithms concurrency and system design
Experience supporting ML model deployment inference pipelines or ML-backed services
2 years of DevOps experience deploying SaaS services using CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions)
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with AWS services such as Kinesis DynamoDB and S3
Familiarity with Redis MySQL or similar data stores
Strong Linux proficiency
Nice to Have
Prior experience transitioning from another backend language (Java Scala Python) to Go
Experience with RabbitMQ and Nginx
Comfort contributing to frontend tasks or JavaScript when needed
Whats In It for You
As a Pindropper youll join a rapidly growing company making technology more human through the power of voice.
Within 30 Days Youll
Gain a foundational understanding of product architecture and system design.
Ramp up on development processes and internal workflows.
Build relationships across the team.
Participate in grooming and planning meetings.
Complete onboarding and New Employee Orientation.
Tackle your first small bug fix or feature implementation.
Within 60 Days Youll
Actively contribute to team discussions and engineering rituals.
Begin working on larger projects or features.
Deliver small code changes through the complete software development lifecycle.
Within 90 Days Youll
Take ownership of tasks coming out of planning meetings.
Help drive task breakdown during grooming and planning.
Deliver a major feature design or implementation.
Teach the team something newsharing your expertise or insights.
What We Offer
As part of Pindrop youll directly influence our portfolio of products and help shape the future of voice security. We hire exceptional people and empower them to do their best work.
Competitive compensation including equity for all employees
Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
Remote-first culture
This position is contracted through Alcor BPO.
What we live by
At Pindrop our Core Values are fundamental beliefs at the center of all we do. They are our guiding principles that dictate our actions and behaviors. Our Values are deeply embedded into our culture in big and small ways and even help us decide right from wrong when the path forward is unclear. At Pindrop we believe in taking accountability to make decisions and act in a way that reflects who we are. We truly believe making decisions and acting with our Core Values in mind will help us to achieve our goals and keep Pindrop a great place to work:
- Audaciously Innovate - We continue to change the world and the way people safely engage and interact with technology. As first principle thinkers we challenge standards take risks and learn from our mistakes in order to make positive change and continuous improvement. We believe nothing is impossible.
- Evangelical Customers for Life - We delight inspire and empower customers from day one and for life. We create a partnership and experience that results in a shared passion. We are champions for our customers and our customers become our champions creating a universal commitment to one another.
- Execution Excellence - We do what we say and say what we do. We are accountable for making the tough decisions and necessary tradeoffs to deliver quality and effective solutions on time.
- Win as a Company - Every time we win we win as a company. Every time we lose we lose as a company. We break down silos support one another embrace diversity and celebrate our successes. We are better together.
- Make a Difference - Every day we have the opportunity to make a positive impact. We operate with dedication passion and uncompromising integrity creating a safer more secure world.
Not sure if this is you
We want a diverse global team with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great but youre not sure if you qualify apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you find another team that might be a better fit keep in touch for future opportunities or thank you for your time.
Pindrop is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Here at Pindrop it is our mission to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. As an equal opportunity employer all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race color age religion sex gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetic information disability marital and/or veteran status.
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- Express.js
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