Senior Backend Engineer/Research Engineer

Cyberhaven; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyberhaven is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer/Research Engineer to drive product innovation using cutting-edge AI technology. This role involves developing prototypes and solving complex technical challenges in a hybrid work environment located in the Bay Area, focusing on scalable backend applications and leveraging AI technologies.

Benefits

Competitive salary and stock options

100% paid health benefits options

Flexible time off

Career advancement opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in building backend applications at scale.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Go or Python.

Responsibilities

• Build prototypes of products focusing on AI/ML technologies.
• Work with large-scale systems processing billions of events.
• Collaborate with a world-class applied research team.

Skills

Backend Application Building

Microservices

Kubernetes

AI/ML Technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Python

Kubernetes

React

Job description

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Joining Cyberhaven offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of revolutionizing data protection through cutting-edge AI technology. Cyberhaven is dedicated to overcoming the challenges faced by traditional data security products, ensuring robust protection of critical data against insider threats in a rapidly evolving work environment. With a unique approach to data lineage, tracing data from its origin for better classification and protection, Cyberhaven combines the functionality of traditional data protection security tools into a single, more effective solution.

About The Role

We’re looking for an experienced backend developer to help drive and evolve our product, focusing on high-impact innovation projects as part of our Labs team. You will be working on cutting-edge technology and ideas and building prototypes of breakthrough products and features with a substantial impact on the product and the company. You will be solving multiple exciting technical challenges!

Please Note: Candidates must be located in Bay Area (Hybrid)

What You’ll Do

• You’ll be building prototypes (both standalone and as part of our product) with a world-class applied research team focusing on cutting-edge AI/ML and related technologies — including LLMs and various domain-specific neural networks.
• You'll work with a large-scale, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant system that handles large graph datasets at enterprise scale in realtime. Instances of our product are processing billions of events from tens of thousands of endpoints in real-time with subsecond latency requirements.
• You get to work with a modern and constantly evolving microservices-based software stack which includes:
• Go, Kubernetes, Bigquery, etc. on the backend
• Typescript, React, MUI, etc. on the frontend
• Python, Pytorch, Huggingface libraries in the ML stack
  

Who You Are

• You love innovation and have an entrepreneurial mindset, eager to solve challenging real-world problems with breakthrough technology
• You have a strong track record in building backend applications that are actively used at scale
• You have experience developing large applications in Go or Python
• You have hands-on experience with microservices and Kubernetes (both development and DevOps)
• Experience with agile development and SCRUM
• You have some experience or willingness to quickly learn basic frontend development
• You have some experience or willingness to quickly AI/ML technologies
  
  

What You Can Count On

• Competitive salary and stock options
• 100% paid health benefits options
• Flexible time off (paid)
• Career advancement opportunities
• Hybrid Opportunity - twice a week in Bay Area office
  
  

Compensation Range: $180 - $240k

Please note that ranges showed encompass the entire US market, from higher rate cities like NYC, Bay Area and Seattle, to all the US Metro Area.

Cyberhaven is the AI-powered data security company revolutionizing how companies detect and stop the most critical insider threats to their most important data. We've raised over $250M from leading Silicon Valley investors like Khosla and Redpoint. Cyberhaven is also backed by founders, executives, and security leaders who have built transformational technologies at Crowdstrike, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, Slack, and others.

Our company values are:

• Think Deeply and Use Sound Reasoning
• Step Up and Take Ownership
• Continuously Learn and Grow
• Obsess About Customers
• Enjoy the Journey
• Reach for Ambitious Goals
  
  

Cyberhaven is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security

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