Senior Software Engineer - Cloud (Cybersecurity)

Greylock Partners; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Greylock Partners in Boston is seeking a backend engineer to help scale an AI-native cybersecurity cloud platform. You will architect data pipelines, ensure robustness, and contribute to a secure, high-performance infrastructure trusted by customers.

You will join an exceptional engineering team built entirely in Boston, with founders who have led $3B+ companies and a strong track record in cybersecurity. This role offers the opportunity to influence the foundation of our platform and grow with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud architectures for scalable systems.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale foundational data pipelines and processing engine for our AI-native cybersecurity cloud platform.
• Drive architecture decisions and deliver resilient, clean solutions for high-stakes security problems.
• Ensure scalability, reliability and performance across our cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Backend development

Cloud architecture

Security-minded design

Job description

If you're a software engineer in Boston that wants to work on a frontier agentic platform, this job is worth reviewing.

The company rapidly scaling (larger contracts, complex customer infrastructure needs etc) and a critical need is to expand their platform team. You'll be responsible and trusted to ensure the platforms robustness, scalability and security as this will be the foundation of the companies success.

And, you'll be joining an exceptional engineering team, built entirely in Boston.

Founders

Founded by proven cybersecurity leaders with prior $3B+ companies they built from scratch. Experts in their domain and track record of selling into the toughest CISO orgs

Domain

agentic cybersecurity

Stage

Series A

Team size

130

Desired Qualifications

• Architect and scale foundational data pipelines and processing engine for our AI-native cybersecurity cloud platform
• Drive architecture and technology decisions, engineering resilient, clean solutions for high-stakes security problems
• Guarantee scalability, reliability, and performance across our cloud infrastructure
• 5+ years of backend development experience and practical cloud architecture know-how
• Excel with a high-velocity, proactive mindset, paired with strong problem-solving and communication skills

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About Greylock

Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable companies including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, Palo Alto Networks, among others. More can be found about us here: https://greylock.com/