Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a lean, high-output core engineering team at an AI-first startup building the next generation of physical threat intelligence and critical event management. The platform combines real-time AI-powered 911 radio monitoring with OSINT from major social networks to deliver verified, actionable threat alerts to enterprise security operations teams — in seconds. The company has strong early traction, meaningful ARR, and is backed by top-tier seed investors.

We're adding 1–2 Senior / Staff Backend Engineers to the core team. You'll own critical platform functionality end-to-end and help shape features the industry hasn't seen yet.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own core backend platform features end-to-end — from concept and architecture through deployment and iteration

- Build and maintain low-latency, highly available backend services that power real-time threat detection

- Collaborate cross-functionally in a fully remote, distributed team environment

- Integrate external data sources and OSINT-style data feeds into the platform pipeline

- Contribute to AI pipeline architecture and agentic workflow systems

- Drive 0→1 feature development with a high degree of autonomy and accountability

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required:

- Senior or Staff-level backend engineering experience

- Demonstrated 0→1 ownership — founding a product, or owning a large feature/product end-to-end from concept through production

- Experience building low-latency, highly available distributed backend systems

- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable collaborating asynchronously across a remote team

- Proven ability to work with flexibility across different engineering specialties in a lean team

Nice to Have:

- Experience building user-configured workflow or automation systems

- Experience designing or maintaining AI / ML pipelines

- Experience integrating external data sources or OSINT-style feeds (threat intelligence, social data, radio/dispatch data, etc.)

- Early-stage startup experience (sub-10-person engineering team)

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Salary: $180,000 – $205,000 per year

- Fully remote position

- Visa sponsorship: Not available

LOCATION

Fully remote. Open to candidates based anywhere in the United States.

Similar jobs

• Senior / Staff Backend Engineer — Aescape · Remote
• Senior/Staff Backend Engineer — Blackbird-labs-inc · New York
• Senior/Staff Back-end Engineer — Arbor · Boston
• Senior Staff Backend Engineer — Coupang · Mountain View, USA; Seattle, USA
• Senior / Staff Product Engineer, Backend — Radar · New York
• Senior Backend Engineer (Staff) — Safetykit · San Francisco
• Senior / Lead Backend Engineer — Medal · New York City
• Senior Staff Back-end Engineer — Coupang · Bengaluru; Mountain View, USA; Seattle, USA