Software Engineer II - Data Security & AI Platform

Teleskope; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Office in NYC

Flexible vacation

Job summary

Teleskope in New York City is seeking a software engineer to own end-to-end features on the core platform, collaborating with engineers who focus on distributed systems, ML, and scale.

You will tackle hard data security problems, ship production-grade solutions, and help drive fast growth at a startup backed by top-tier investors. The role includes working from our Financial District office three days a week and enjoying a competitive salary with meaningful equity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong back-end skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Solid background in databases, data modeling, and schema design.
• You take open-ended problems, drive them to clarity, and ship the solution to production.
• You use AI tools to move faster, and you want to get better at using them well.
• Frontend experience a plus.
• Must be based in NYC and able to work from our Financial District office 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own customer-facing features end to end, from design decisions to daily use at companies like Polymarket and The Atlantic
• Turn ambiguous problems into shipped features, and own how they get built
• Debug live production systems and solve problems that only exist at petabyte scale
• Take on the hardest problems in data security, from architecture to implementation
• Raise the bar for the team through code review, design feedback, and mentoring engineers earlier in their careers

Skills

Go

Python

Databases

Schema design

Open-ended problems

AI tools

Frontend

Job description

Teleskope in New York City is seeking a software engineer to own end-to-end features on the core platform, collaborating with engineers who focus on distributed systems, ML, and scale.

You will tackle hard data security problems, ship production-grade solutions, and help drive fast growth at a startup backed by top-tier investors. The role includes working from our Financial District office three days a week and enjoying a competitive salary with meaningful equity.