New Grad Backend Engineer — AI Security Platform, Equity

Prophet Security; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Meaningful equity participation

Fun, inspiring environment and culture

Job summary

Prophet Security is seeking a New Graduate Software Engineer to help build and evolve the core backend systems that power our security platform.

You will work closely with experienced engineers, product, ML, and cybersecurity experts on services that ingest, process, and reason over large security data sets, contributing to scalable integrations and high‑quality software from day one.

Qualifications

• Recently completed or pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with Python or Go through coursework, internships, or personal projects.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, testing, and system design.
• Demonstrated software-building experience through academic, internship, research, open-source, or personal projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to collaborate in a fast-moving environment and learn quickly.
• Interest in building high-quality products and solving customer problems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core backend systems powering Prophet’s platform.
• Collaborate with product, ML, and cybersecurity experts to ingest, process, and reason over security data.
• Develop scalable integrations with third-party security systems and SIEM/EDR platforms.
• Design storage, indexing, and access patterns for real-time and historical analyses.

Skills

Python

Go

Backend services

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

Prophet Security is seeking a New Graduate Software Engineer to help build and evolve the core backend systems that power our security platform.

You will work closely with experienced engineers, product, ML, and cybersecurity experts on services that ingest, process, and reason over large security data sets, contributing to scalable integrations and high‑quality software from day one.