Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time, Low-Latency Systems (Hybrid)

Engg; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k)

Job summary

ZeroDrift is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to build the layer connecting AI agents and developer frameworks to our platform. You will own the policy backend, engine, and controls, ensuring low latency and high reliability in an enterprise environment.

Three days per week will be in our New York City office at 4 World Trade Center, with the rest remote. You will work on security‑minded, scalable backend systems using Go, Python, Java, or Node, with cloud, containers, and CI/CD in scope.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and running production backends at scale.
• Strong in a modern backend language (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.

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.
• Build the controls that decide what each agent is allowed to do.
• Hit low latency and high reliability under enterprise load.
• Maintain a high bar for security and data protection.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Python

Java

Node.js

APIs

Distributed systems

Databases

Caching

Cloud

CI/CD

Containers

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

ZeroDrift is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to build the layer connecting AI agents and developer frameworks to our platform. You will own the policy backend, engine, and controls, ensuring low latency and high reliability in an enterprise environment.

Three days per week will be in our New York City office at 4 World Trade Center, with the rest remote. You will work on security‑minded, scalable backend systems using Go, Python, Java, or Node, with cloud, containers, and CI/CD in scope.