Senior Java Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Vulnerability

NinjaOne; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid remote

Job summary

NinjaOne's Vulnerability Management team is building a real-time, AI-driven engine to help IT teams find and fix security exposures fast. As a Senior Java Backend Engineer, you will design and scale the backend services that power continuous vulnerability detection, CVE correlation, and remediation workflows across millions of endpoints.

You'll work at the intersection of security data, high-throughput distributed systems, and AI-assisted risk prioritization, partnering with product and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years experience in Java software development for product applications or equivalent. Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a stand out candidate.
• 4+ years experience working with highly scalable software systems.
• Experience working on systems at scale and finding solutions to scale systems.
• Working knowledge of a breadth of OOP design principles.
• Expertise in scaling data structures and object-oriented design.
• Knowledge of API best practices and REST service development using frameworks like Jersey or Spring.
• Relational Database design and development experience.
• Experience creating both client and server-side development, for responsive messaging.
• Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis will make you a stand-out.
• Expert knowledge of quality testing practices.

Responsibilities

• Java and Kotlin Software Development– use your expertise to contribute to the development of large-scale software applications. Make quality an invariant part of your work and help your fellow engineers continue to meet our quality-first standards.
• Committing Code and Shipping Products – you will be one of our most trusted engineers committing code. Responsible for implementing design patterns and working on enterprise level software challenges, in a startup environment. Impact product more hands on than at other companies, building software of scale that runs on millions and millions of endpoints.
• Other duties as needed.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Caching Redis

Relational DB

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IT or equivalent

Tools

Jersey

Spring

SQL

Job description

NinjaOne's Vulnerability Management team is building a real-time, AI-driven engine to help IT teams find and fix security exposures fast. As a Senior Java Backend Engineer, you will design and scale the backend services that power continuous vulnerability detection, CVE correlation, and remediation workflows across millions of endpoints.

You'll work at the intersection of security data, high-throughput distributed systems, and AI-assisted risk prioritization, partnering with product and