Staff Software Engineer: Infra & Telemetry for Cybersecurity

BranchFactor; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 240 000 - 250 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Top of market health insurance

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid role (NYC)

Résumé du poste

Latent Defense is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to move its infrastructure from MVP to GA-ready. You’ll own customer deploys (Kubernetes, Docker), the telemetry platform, and the hardening and scaling work for production environments.

Based in New York City, this role offers significant autonomy in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll collaborate with the engineering director to set architecture and deliver high-quality, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with real infrastructure/backend depth.
• Fluency with TypeScript, Python, and Postgres.
• Experience deploying and supporting software directly in customer-owned infrastructure, not just centrally-hosted SaaS.
• A track record of redesigning or hardening systems as they scale, not just building new features.
• Comfortable operating with minimal direction in a small, fast-moving team.
• Agent-native — uses AI coding tools fluently, but has the underlying engineering instinct to know when to trust them and when not to.
• Experience at a seed-stage startup; founder experience is a strong plus.
• Nice to have: cybersecurity/security-adjacent experience.
• Nice to have: telemetry/observability/hardening systems experience.
• Nice to have: agent orchestration frameworks or MCP-style protocols.
• Nice to have: BYOC and on-premises deployment experience.

Responsabilités

• Own deployment of Latent Defense's product into customer infrastructure, including Kubernetes and Docker-based environments.
• Build and harden the telemetry platform that lets the team measure and improve system-wide reliability and efficacy.
• Redesign infrastructure and backend systems as the company moves from an early MVP to a scaled, GA product.
• Operate with significant autonomy — take on ambiguous infrastructure problems and drive them to resolution without heavy direction.
• Use AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow, while keeping the underlying engineering judgment that agents can't replace.
• Partner with the rest of the engineering team (currently more junior) to raise the technical bar and unblock hard problems.
• Work closely with the Director of Engineering on architecture, technical direction, and delivery rigor as the team scales.

Connaissances

7+ years software engineering

TypeScript

Python

Postgres

Customer infra deployment

Autonomy in small teams

AI coding tools

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

Description du poste

Latent Defense is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to move its infrastructure from MVP to GA-ready. You’ll own customer deploys (Kubernetes, Docker), the telemetry platform, and the hardening and scaling work for production environments.

Based in New York City, this role offers significant autonomy in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll collaborate with the engineering director to set architecture and deliver high-quality, scalable systems.