Senior Backend Engineer

• Equity / ownership upside

You will help build the enforcement infrastructure that ensures AI-driven communication is safe and compliant delivering low-latency reliable systems used across the organization. You will work as an individual contributor with significant architectural ownership collaborating closely with engineering peers and product stakeholders. Hybrid (3 days onsite) in the New York City area.

• Build the layer that connects AI agents and developer frameworks: proxies SDKs and agent tooling
• Own the policy backend including connectors ingest of rule sources and restricted lists and the engine that tracks rule changes
• Build controls that determine what each agent is allowed to do
• Design and operate systems to meet low latency and high reliability under enterprise load
• Maintain a high bar for security and data protection when handling sensitive content

• 5 years building and running production backends at scale
• Strong experience in a modern backend language (Go Python Java or Node)
• Solid knowledge of APIs distributed systems databases queues and caching
• Experience with cloud environments containers and CI/CD
• Focus on latency reliability and writing clean code

• Experience with low-latency or real-time systems
• Experience building SDKs proxies or developer-facing infrastructure
• Experience working with sensitive or regulated data

$160000 - $180000/year

This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.

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