Software Engineer

Obiguard; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OBIGUARD SDN. BHD. is seeking a Software Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to own the inspection layer, design and ship detectors, and improve latency. This forward-deployed role may have on-site pilots at client offices for up to three weeks.

You will build detectors for PII, prompt injection, and policy rules, work with customers during pilots, and collaborate with the AI Safety Research team to turn new research into production-ready tooling.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship detectors for the inspection pipeline (PII, prompt injection, toxicity, policy rules).

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Observability

Production debugging

Job description

Careers / Software Engineer

ENGINEERINGKuala Lumpur

• Remote within KL, onsite when needed
• Full-time

Own the inspection layer. Design and ship detectors, improve latency, and work directly with customers debugging production incidents.

About The Role

Obiguard’s inspection pipeline sits in the critical path between customer applications and their LLMs - every prompt and response passes through it in single-digit milliseconds. As a Software Engineer, you’ll build and harden this pipeline: the detectors, the policy engine, and the audit ledger that enterprise security teams depend on in production. This is a forward-deployed engineering role - during pilots, you may be deployed on-site at client offices for stretches of up to three weeks at a time, debugging integration issues and production incidents in person.

AI risk governance for organizations shipping LLMs in production. Built by veterans of security, identity, and ML platform.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and ship detectors for the inspection pipeline - covering PII, prompt injection, toxicity, and framework-specific policy rules.
• Improve p50/p99 latency on the synchronous, in-path inspection layer without compromising detection accuracy.
• Own services end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and on-call.
• Work directly with customers during pilots to debug production incidents and edge cases in real deployments.
• Collaborate with the AI Safety Research team to turn new attack research into shipped detectors.
• Contribute to the audit ledger and framework-mapping systems that back our compliance guarantees.

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years building production backend systems, ideally in Go, Python, or Rust.
• Comfortable working in the critical path of a low-latency system - you think in milliseconds, not seconds.
• Experience with distributed systems, observability, and debugging production incidents under pressure.
• Solid understanding of security fundamentals; prior application security or infra security experience is a strong plus.
• Bias toward shipping - comfortable owning a feature from design doc to production rollout.
• Comfortable with extended client-site deployments - this is a forward-deployed role, with on-site stints of up to three weeks at a time during active pilots.

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating LLM-adjacent infrastructure (RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, model gateways).
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF).
• Open-source contributions to security or infra tooling.

Location and Type

• Location: Kuala Lumpur
• Remote within KL, onsite when needed
• Full-time
• Open to part-time arrangements, and we welcome internship applications for this role.

Eligibility

You must be based in Kuala Lumpur / Klang Valley and already have the right to work in Malaysia. Day-to-day work can be remote within KL, but you'll come into our KL office when the business needs it. We do not sponsor visas or relocation.

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