Staff Software Engineer, Cloud API & AI Security

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

Job summary

Cyberhaven is seeking an experienced software engineer to advance our data and AI security product. You will influence architecture as an early contributor and tackle scaling, security, and performance challenges across a cloud-native stack.

You will design secure, scalable systems for data protection across AWS, GCP, Azure, and SaaS, collaborating with distributed teams in Europe, India, and the US. Strong Go or Python/Java/Rust skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of industry experience building high-scale security products.
• Experience building AI agents, agentic applications, or security solutions for AI agents is highly preferred.
• Extensive experience developing distributed applications for public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) or SaaS.
• Skilled in integrating and ingesting large-scale data from third-party SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS APIs.
• Extensive enterprise-scale programming experience, preferably in Go; also proficient in Python/Java/Rust.
• Familiarity with Bigtable/BigQuery or graph databases like Neo4j or AWS Neptune is a plus.
• Experience in RESTful API design and microservices with Kubernetes.
• Strong English communication, comfortable collaborating across Europe, India, and the US.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant solutions to protect data across public clouds and SaaS applications.
• Build security capabilities to control how AI agents access and process data.
• Address real-world scaling problems with performance analysis and troubleshooting.
• Work with a microservices stack including Go, Kubernetes, Bigtable, BigQuery, Spanner, Redis, Docker.
• Write secure-by-design software able to withstand real-world attacks while communicating with hundreds of thousands of endpoints.

Skills

Go

Python/Java/Rust

Distributed systems

Data security

API design

Kubernetes

Performance optimization

Communication skills

Tools

Bigtable

BigQuery

Neo4j

AWS Neptune

Job description

Cyberhaven is seeking an experienced software engineer to advance our data and AI security product. You will influence architecture as an early contributor and tackle scaling, security, and performance challenges across a cloud-native stack.

You will design secure, scalable systems for data protection across AWS, GCP, Azure, and SaaS, collaborating with distributed teams in Europe, India, and the US. Strong Go or Python/Java/Rust skills are required.