Software Engineer, Detection (TOR)

Doppel; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free lunch and dinner

Flexible PTO

Quarterly team offsites

Job summary

Doppel, located in Toronto, is seeking passionate engineers to build and operate backend systems aimed at protecting users from digital threats. As part of our team, you'll have comprehensive ownership of projects, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive effective solutions. We offer a mission-driven culture, flexible PTO, and various perks like free meals in the office. If you’re interested in making the internet a safer place, we’d love to meet you.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building production backend services or full-stack features.
• Strong mastery of at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or Node.
• Experience architecting scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Operational experience with large data pipelines.
• Deep practical experience with backend concerns including databases and caching.
• Strong observability, debugging, and incident response skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate backend systems at scale.
• Focus on high-throughput ingestion and threat-linking infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Operations, Customer Success, and Sales teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and make key product decisions.

Skills

Production backend services

Python

System design

Data pipelines

Databases (SQL + NoSQL)

Observability and debugging

Cross-functional communication

Job description

Why Join Doppel

Doppel is built to outsmart one of the great threats AI presents: mass-manufactured social engineering. Countless scams, deepfakes, and other social engineering attacks are surging across every digital channel: websites, social media, ads, encrypted messaging apps, mobile, and more. Our mission is simple but bold: make the internet a safer place by outsmarting the world’s fastest-evolving digital threats.

Backed by a16z and Bessemer and trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands (OpenAI, United Airlines, Coinbase, etc.), Doppel is growing fast. If you’re driven to solve real-world problems with bold technology, we’d love to meet you.

What We're Building

We're building the AI-native social engineering defense platform.

This means we're designing scalable systems that monitor billions of domains, social media accounts, apps, dark web forums, etc., and leverage AI agents to identify and neutralize digital threats.

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for passionate engineers who love building and operating backend systems at scale - someone who can take ambiguous detection/product problems and deliver reliable production services and UIs that help our ops and customers find and remediate threats. You’ll focus on high-throughput ingestion, enrichment, scoring and alerting pipelines, APIs and dashboards, threat-linking infrastructure, and reliable automation that the stakeholder teams use every day.

• Hands‑on experience building production backend services or full‑stack features (or equivalent). Proven record of shipping end‑to‑end: design → implementation → testing → monitoring → oncall.
• Strong mastery of at least one backend language (Python, Go, Java, or Node) and comfort with web APIs, async processing, and service frameworks.
• Solid system design skills: experience architecting scalable, fault‑tolerant systems (sharding, caching, queueing, idempotency, backpressure).
• Experience building and operating large data pipelines (batch or streaming), working with warehouses or OLAP systems for analytics, and designing efficient schemas for scale.
• Deep practical experience with backend concerns: databases (SQL + NoSQL), caching, message queues, rate limiting, retries, and cost/latency tradeoffs.
• Strong observability, debugging and incident response skills: structured logging, tracing, dashboards, SLOs/alerts, and the ability to triage and fix production issues.
• Product ownership and excellent cross‑functional communication — you’ll collaborate with Operations, Customer Success, Sales, to deliver measurable outcomes.

As part of our Toronto team, you’ll:

• Work on a wide range of asks that protect billions of people from digital impersonation
• Have complete end to end ownership - from directly collecting customer requirements to continuously iterating on shipped releases.
• Mentor junior engineers, make key product decisions, and foster a high‑performing team culture

What We Offer

A mission‑driven culture with low ego, high ownership, deep customer obsession, and exceptional talent density

Free lunch and dinner in the office

Flexible PTO

Quarterly team offsites

Join Doppel

Doppel is the first platform built to dismantle digital deception at scale. We scan over 150 billion entities daily and deploy continuously adaptive AI SOC agents, paired with expert human analysts, to uncover and disrupt the infrastructure behind phishing, impersonation, and online fraud before attacks can spread. Our Threat Grid turns every customer signal into shared intelligence, making each disruption smarter, faster, and more effective.

We’re not just another cybersecurity company. We’re defining the future of social engineering defense, where trust is protected, and deception becomes unprofitable. Backed by top‑tier investors and trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands, Doppel is growing fast. If you’re driven to solve real‑world problems with bold technology, we’d love to meet you.