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Founding Engineer, Services
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Posted 13 days ago
Full Time
$160,000 Annually
What You'll Build
You'll own critical parts of the platform across four major areas:
Backend Services
You'll own critical parts of the platform across four major areas:
Backend Services
- Design and build scalable microservices powering scheduling, dispatch, incident management, patrol operations, and compliance workflows
- Architect event-driven systems that operate across cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments
- Develop highly reliable distributed systems supporting real-time operational workflows
- Help define the core data model that powers the platform
- Design relationships, actions, and event schemas across entities such as sites, zones, sensors, alerts, incidents, compliance controls, personnel, and autonomous systems
- Build the foundation that allows AI, automation, and operational workflows to interact consistently across the platform
- Design and evolve versioned APIs and service contracts
- Build integration frameworks for cameras, sensors, access control systems, cybersecurity tools, and other operational technologies
- Create extensible platform services that customers and partners can build upon
- Build the web applications used by security operators and dispatch teams every day
- Develop real-time dashboards, alert management systems, geospatial interfaces, and operational workflows
- Partner closely with product and design to create intuitive experiences for high-stakes environments
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience building distributed backend systems
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Go, Python, or similar languages
- Experience designing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Strong database design experience, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Comfortable working across backend and frontend systems
- Startup mentality with a willingness to operate in ambiguity and move quickly
- React and TypeScript frontend experience
- Graph-based or ontology-driven systems
- Real-time operational software
- Security, defense, critical infrastructure, or compliance-heavy environments
- Geospatial systems and mapping technologies
- AI/ML platform integrations
- Founding team opportunity with meaningful equity
- Build an AI-native platform from the ground up
- Work on problems spanning software, security, infrastructure, AI, and real-world operations
- Significant ownership and influence over product and technical direction
- Small, highly technical team focused on speed, innovation, and execution

