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Nightfall AI · 1 month ago

Backend Software Engineer (Recent Grad)

Palo Alto

Full-time

Hybrid

New Grad, Entry Level

Nightfall is an AI-native platform focused on data loss prevention and insider risk management. The Backend Engineer role involves building scalable APIs and services, maintaining internal databases, and optimizing AI/ML services for high-volume data processing.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData Center AutomationMachine LearningSaaS

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Working with team leads to build highly-available 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

PythonGoMicroservicesSQLNoSQLAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformKafkaSnowflakeData StructuresAlgorithmsNetworkingCybersecurityMachine Learning

Required

Coding fluency in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) with solid understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms

Internship or other industry experience with large-scale microservices, distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra)

BS/MS in Computer Science with rigorous coursework in Distributed Systems, Databases, Networking, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning with top grades

Recent graduate with authorization to work in the US

Company

Nightfall AI

Nightfall AI the AI-native, all-in-one data loss prevention platform.

Founded in 2018

San Francisco, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.nightfall.ai

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (3)

2024 (5)

2023 (5)

2022 (3)

2021 (2)

2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$60.3M

Key Investors

WestBridge Capital

2022-08-10Series B· $40M

2019-11-07Series A· $20.3M

2018-11-26Seed

Leadership Team

Rohan Sathe

Co-Founder & CEO

Isaac Madan

Co-Founder & President

Recent News

baincapitalventures.com

Nightfall: Bain Capital Ventures

2026-01-20

Venrock

Venrock Portfolio

2025-12-23

PR Newswire

Nightfall Unveils Industry-First AI-Powered File Classifiers to Close the Blind Spot Legacy DLP Misses: IP Exfiltration

2025-11-19

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