Software Engineer - Backend (Product)

• Design and ship backend APIs and services, from 0-to-1 prototypes through enterprise rollout.
• Own a product area end to end: data modeling, API design, performance, reliability, and operational health.
• Partner with product, design, and frontend to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical plans.
• Tune performance and reliability under real production load, including peaks from real-time alert pipelines.
• Build the monitoring, logging, and alerting needed to catch issues before customers do.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, code reviews, and team standards.

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with meaningful time on user-facing web or mobile products.
• Strong Python skills and production experience with Flask, Django, or FastAPI.
• Solid API design instincts across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC, and a clear point of view on what makes an interface clean.
• Comfort modeling data across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and vector stores, with a sense of the tradeoffs between them.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• A track record of debugging hard production issues and shipping the fix.

• Real-time systems experience: WebSockets, server-sent events, pub/sub, or streaming pipelines.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript and a modern frontend framework like React or Vue, enough to read frontend code and reason about end-to-end flows.
• Background in any of: video infrastructure, computer vision applications, notification and alert routing, or LLM and agentic applications.
• Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS into large enterprise deployments.

• We are creating an entirely new category within a 180+ billion-dollar physical security industry and looking for team members who are also passionate about our mission to prevent every security incident possible
• We partner with an incredible customer roster of F500 companies, including Adobe, TikTok, Gap and SentinelOne
• Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of our company
• Comprehensive health + welfare package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, Legal Services, 401k plan)
• We offer flexible time off to rest and recharge, including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s for most roles, depending on customer demand)
• The latest tech and awesome swag will be delivered to your door
• Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers
• We love to hike https://www.alltrails.com/us/california/redwood-city, are foodies, and love music! Check out our most recent Ambient Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kx8dM5h65Tac5UOo0kuWr?si=cebFZmkHQhKEvnoall2rcQ

We’ve found that in-person time meaningfully supports collaboration, creativity, and team alignment. Our talent, engineering, product, design, and marketing teams work from our Redwood City office three days a week. All other Bay Area employees join on Fridays to stay connected and close out the week together.

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