Senior AI & Secure Data Infra Engineer

FORT; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

A national security startup is looking for a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to build and support mission-critical backend services. In this role, you'll leverage AI to enhance data security and collaborate across teams to solve complex problems. Ideal candidates will have 5–15 years of backend engineering experience, strong Python skills, and a history of delivering effective engineering solutions in fast-paced environments. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful national security projects.

Qualifications

• 5–15 years of backend engineering experience with strong depth in Python.
• Proven track record shipping agentic services using LLMs.
• Experience handling and securing large-scale, sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and support mission-critical backend services.
• Launch agentic systems leveraging LLMs into production.
• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

ML development

Job description

A national security startup is looking for a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to build and support mission-critical backend services. In this role, you'll leverage AI to enhance data security and collaborate across teams to solve complex problems. Ideal candidates will have 5–15 years of backend engineering experience, strong Python skills, and a history of delivering effective engineering solutions in fast-paced environments. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful national security projects.