KnowBe4 · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - AI Engineering (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $200K/yr
9+ years expKnowBe4 is a cybersecurity company focused on redefining security awareness training through its AI-driven Human Risk Management platform. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define the technical direction of AI systems, mentor engineers, and establish best practices for building safe and scalable AI solutions.
ComputerCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Architecture: Define and evolve the technical vision for AI and agentic systems across products
Scalability: Design orchestration, data, and serving patterns that handle global scale with reliability
Partnership: Collaborate with AI Research to turn prototypes into extensible, governed production frameworks
Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and guide cross-team engineering initiatives
Standards: Establish best practices for observability, testing, and secure, explainable AI systems
Collaboration: Align teams around shared architectural principles and long-term technical goals. Partner closely with Product Management to align engineering designs with product requirements
Balance: Drive innovation responsibly, delivering systems that stay measurable, maintainable, and safe
Domain Expertise: Stay deeply engaged with the cybersecurity landscape, understanding emerging threats, evolving compliance requirements, and industry standards, to ensure our solutions directly address the real-world evolving security challenges our customers face
Qualification
Required
9+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, or AI-driven systems
Proven technical leadership defining architecture and design patterns across multiple teams or domains
Expertise in Python and backend/API frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask
Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred), event-driven systems, and distributed scalability, leveraging CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (we use GitLab and Terraform)
Experience building or integrating AI/ML platform features - model serving, orchestration, vector search, or MLOps frameworks
A habit of turning new discoveries into reusable knowledge for the team
Preferred
Experience designing agentic or retrieval-based architectures at scale
Strong experience in observability, reliability, and incident response
Benefits
Company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets
Employee referral bonuses
Adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Certification reimbursement
Certification completion bonuses
Company
KnowBe4
KnowBe4 is a security platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing attacks.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.15BKey Investors
JP Morgan Chase,Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.Goldman Sachs Growth Equity
2025-06-24Debt Financing· $1.46B
2023-06-12Debt Financing· $300M
2022-10-12Acquired
Leadership Team
Bryan Palma
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Patton
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2026-01-20
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