Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems

Armadin; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Equity ownership

In-Office meals

Haircuts at the Office

Conferences & Events

401(k)

Job summary

Armadin in Palo Alto seeks a senior backend infrastructure engineer to design core systems and scalable AI-enabled platforms. You will own production, build high-throughput pipelines, and empower product teams with robust tooling.

The role emphasizes architecture-to-implementation ownership, operating at scale, and delivering rock-solid software in a security-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in backend infrastructure and scalable production systems.
• Experience operating at scale and navigating failure modes and bottlenecks.
• Execution mindset: turning ambiguous problems into shipped software.
• Ownership mindset: comfortable spanning architecture to rollout.
• AI-native mindset: build infra for AI workloads and models.
• Collaborative approach across boundaries to achieve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design Core Systems: Architect the services, pipelines, and storage engines powering our platform and autonomous agents.
• Scale for AI: Build high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure that scales with data, customers, and agent workloads.
• Own Production: Take end-to-end responsibility for reliability, performance, and cost of critical systems.
• Empower Teams: Build platforms and tooling for agentic and product teams to ship fast.
• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges in consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, and latency.

Skills

Systems Depth

Battle-Testing

Execution

Ownership

AI Fluency

Collaboration

Tools

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

About Us

At Armadin, we're a group of engineers, researchers, and hackers on a mission to redefine what proactive security can do in the AI era. Cyberattacks are becoming autonomous and relentless and we believe defending against threats before they materialize is one of the most powerful ways to protect the institutions the world depends on.

We're building autonomous proactive security from the ground up, reinforcing the tradecraft of elite red teamers into purpose-built security models and agents that discover risk and remediate it before organizations are breached.

Led by Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant ($5.4B exit to Google), our team brings together researchers and engineers from Google, xAI, Meta, Stanford, and MIT to reinvent security for an adversary that never sleeps.

What You'll Do

• Design Core Systems: Architect the services, pipelines, and storage engines powering our platform and autonomous agents.
• Scale for AI: Build high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure that scales with data, customers, and agentic workloads.
• Own Production: Take end-to-end responsibility for the reliability, performance, and cost of critical systems.
• Empower Teams: Build the platforms and tooling that let agentic and product teams ship fast.
• Solve Hard Problems: Go deep on consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, and latency.

What You'll Bring

• Systems Depth: Strong fundamentals in backend infrastructure and scalable production systems.
• Battle-Testing: Experience operating at scale and navigating failure modes and bottlenecks.
• Execution: You turn ambiguous problems into shipped, rock-solid software.
• Ownership: Comfort spanning architecture to implementation and rollout.
• AI Fluency: You build with AI natively and want to build the infrastructure behind it.
• Collaboration: You work across boundaries and care about the outcome, not just your slice.

Even Better With

• Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure), containers, Kubernetes.
• Real-time streaming and large-scale storage.
• Infrastructure for AI/ML workloads (inference, model serving, data systems).
• Enterprise products built for security, scale, and trust.

Location

In-person in our Palo Alto office.

Benefits & Perks

Full Health, Dental, & Vision Coverage

Meaningful Equity Ownership

In-Office Meals

Haircuts at the Office

Company Sponsored Conferences & Events

401(k), HSA, and FSA Plans

Flexible PTO