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Nightfall AI · 1 month ago

Backend Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Nightfall AI is an AI-native platform focused on data loss prevention and insider risk management. The Backend Engineer will be responsible for delivering a reliable and secure platform by architecting low latency, real-time microservices that process sensitive data at scale.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData Center AutomationMachine LearningSaaS

No H1B

Responsibilities

Building highly-available, secure and scalable APIs and services

Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services

Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data and AI/ML services

Instrumenting streaming data and AI/ML services for visibility into utilization per customer

Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services

Participating in oncall rotation for ensuring operational excellence

Qualification

PythonGoAWSDockerKubernetesPostgresCassandraRedisKafkaSnowflakeData ProcessingComplex Problem SolvingMicroservices ArchitectureTeam Leadership

Required

Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more

Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9's) 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 large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. Postgres, MySQL, Redis, 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 real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Snowflake, Hadoop, or Zookeeper

3+ years of experience

Prior authorization to work in the US. We are not offering visa sponsorship for students on OPT at this time