Senior Software Engineer (Capture) US - Remote

Pindrop; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Competitive compensation

Annual learning stipend

Healthcare plans

Pindrop On-sites

Job summary

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Capture team, you will design, build, and operate the distributed services that form Pindrop's real-time ingestion layer, handling audio, video, and telephony metadata across provider platforms.

You will focus on low-latency pipelines, provider integrations (Zoom, Teams, Webex, Google Meet, Amazon Connect, Genesys), and production

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building and operating distributed backend services in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a comparable language with Linux/Unix, networking, concurrency, and performance tuning fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP), containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and DevOps practices (Terraform/CDK, CI/CD pipelines).
• Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex issues in distributed systems, including on-call production support.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate distributed Go microservices and media pipelines for low-latency processing and high availability.
• Build and evolve integrations across communication technologies and protocols (SIPREC, RTP, WebRTC, WebSockets).
• Lead projects from architecture and design through implementation, testing, and production support.
• Diagnose complex distributed systems issues using logs, metrics, traces, and tests to improve reliability and security.
• Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.

Skills

Go

Linux

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

FFmpeg

GStreamer

WebRTC

SIPREC

RTP

Job description

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. Powered by the Pindrop Intelligence Network, our unified trust platform helps enterprises answer three critical questions:

Is this identity synthetic? Detect AI-generated and manipulated voice and video.
Is this identity risky? Identify fraud, suspicious behavior, and other risk signals.
Is this identity known? Authenticate identities using voice, device, behavioral, and other signals.

Pindrop brings this intelligence together across purpose-built trust engines to help organizations make informed decisions in real time — protecting customers, workforce interactions, and emerging AI-driven interactions.

Pindrop protects billions of high-risk interactions for enterprises, including leading financial institutions, insurers, and healthcare organizations. Its technology is informed by more than 8 billion real-world interactions annually and protected by 300+ patents.

Recognized by TIME as one of the 10 Most Influential Software Companies of 2026 and by Inc. for Best in Business for Innovation, Pindrop is backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Capture team, you will design, build, and operate the distributed services that form Pindrop's real-time ingestion layer. You will engineer systems that acquire, normalize, and deliver real-time and recorded audio, video, and telephony metadata across provider platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet, Amazon Connect, Genesys) into Pindrop’s downstream analytics, fraud detection, and authentication engines.This is a product-engineering role focused on real-time media ingestion, low-latency streaming pipelines, provider integrations, and production reliability. It is not an ML model-development or model-scoring role.

More specifically, you will:

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate distributed Go microservices and media pipelines optimized for low-latency processing, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Build and evolve integrations across communication technologies and protocols, including SIPREC, RTP, WebRTC, WebSockets, and enterprise contact center platforms.
• Lead projects from architecture and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, documentation, and production support.
• Diagnose complex distributed systems issues using logs, metrics, traces, and system tests; improve service reliability, capacity, and security.
• Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, architecture decisions, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Partner closely with Product, System Test, Infrastructure, SRE, and adjacent analytics teams to deliver seamless data ingestion.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation after completing team training and production-readiness onboarding.

Who you are

• Resilient & Adaptable: You are optimistic in the face of ambiguity and change, turning complex engineering challenges into scalable solutions.
• Accountable Owner: You take end-to-end responsibility for outcomes, under-promising and over-delivering on commitments.
• Analytical Problem Solver: You possess strong analytical skills and enjoy driving technical design, project leadership, and mentorship.
• Clear Communicator: You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to cross-functional partners and make decisions understandable across teams.

Must Have

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building and operating distributed backend services in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a comparable compiled language, with strong Linux/Unix, networking, concurrency, and performance tuning fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP), containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and DevOps practices (Terraform/CDK, CI/CD pipelines).
• Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex issues in distributed systems, including participation in on-call production support.

Nice to Have

• Experience with real-time communication protocols and streaming frameworks (SIPREC, VoIP, SIP, RTP, WebRTC, WebSockets, FFmpeg, GStreamer).
• Experience integrating with telephony, contact-center, CPaaS, or meeting platforms (Amazon Connect, Genesys, Zoom, Teams, Webex).
• Experience with event-driven messaging systems (Apache Kafka/MSK), distributed caching, or service-to-service API design (REST/gRPC).
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and security best practices in compliance-sensitive cloud environments.

What You’ll Gain

Build Pindrop's "front door"—the real-time ingestion layer for communication data from global providers like Zoom, Teams, Webex, and Verizon. Your work directly feeds the deepfake detection and voice security engines that protect billions of interactions for the world's top financial institutions and enterprises. You will solve high-impact distributed systems puzzles at enterprise scale alongside world-class engineering, security, and AI minds.

• Work with experienced engineering leaders and teammates who value technical excellence, curiosity, thoughtful debate, and continuous improvement.
• Work on technology operating at enterprise scale that determines whether the person—or AI—on the other side of an interaction can be trusted.
• With Audaciously Innovate as our core value, you’ll incorporate AI into your development workflow, experiment with emerging tools, and help define modern AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and SRE to challenge assumptions, influence technical direction, and turn complex requirements into scalable systems.
• Expand your influence through architecture, technical decision-making, mentorship, and cross-functional leadership.

What we offer

As a part of Pindrop, you’ll have a direct impact on our growing list of products and the future of security in the voice-driven economy. We hire great people and take care of them. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits we offer:

• Competitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees, so everyone shares in our long-term success.
• Remote-first environment - giving you flexibility and autonomy in how you structure your day.
• While we work flexibly, we prioritize meaningful in-person moments through regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings that foster connection, collaboration, and shared success.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Generous health and welfare plans to choose from - including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan!
• Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution
• Low-cost vision and dental plans for you and your family, providing comprehensive coverage and peace of mind.
• Paid Parental Leave - Including birth, adoptive & foster parents
• One year of diaper delivery for your newest addition to the family! It’s our way of welcoming new Pindroplets to the family!
• Recurring monthly phone and internet allowance to help cover essential connectivity costs and support flexible work.
• Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits to support family-building journeys and personalized health needs.
• Annual Learning & Development stipend to support your professional growth, skill-building, certifications, and continued education.

Please note that the base pay range is a general guideline only. Pindrop considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills, as well as market and business considerations, when extending an offer.

US Base Pay Range

$130,000 - $170,000 USD

Not sure if this is you?

We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.

AI - A Transformative Force

At Pindrop, we view artificial intelligence as a transformative force that, when harnessed responsibly, can unlock unprecedented value for our customers, partners and society and enable and empower us to continue to deliver cutting-edge technology to combat fraud and unblur the lines between what it means to be human versus machine.

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Here at Pindrop, it is our mission to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, marital and/or veteran status.

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