Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time AI Enforcement Platform

ZeroDrift, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ZeroDrift, Inc. is hiring a hands-on backend engineer to build the systems that connect AI agents and developer frameworks to ZeroDrift in milliseconds, ensuring strict security and low latency in every message path.

You will own the policy backend, the ingest of rule sources, and the engine that tracks changes, while shaping architecture as one of the first engineers. This full-time hybrid role is based in New York City with three days in the office and the rest remote.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and running production backends at scale
• Strong in a modern backend language (for example Go, Python, Java, or Node)
• Solid with APIs, distributed systems, databases, queues, and caching
• Comfortable with cloud, containers, and CI/CD
• You care about latency, reliability, and clean code in equal measure

Responsibilities

• Build the layer that connects AI agents and developer frameworks to ZeroDrift: proxies, SDKs, and agent tooling
• Own the policy backend: the connectors, the ingest of rule sources and restricted lists, and the engine that tracks when rules change
• Build the controls that decide what each agent is allowed to do
• Hit low latency and high reliability under enterprise load, since we sit in the path of every message
• Hold a high bar for security and data protection on sensitive content

Tools

Go

Python

Java

Node

Job description

ZeroDrift, Inc. is hiring a hands-on backend engineer to build the systems that connect AI agents and developer frameworks to ZeroDrift in milliseconds, ensuring strict security and low latency in every message path.

You will own the policy backend, the ingest of rule sources, and the engine that tracks changes, while shaping architecture as one of the first engineers. This full-time hybrid role is based in New York City with three days in the office and the rest remote.