Staff Software Engineer — Real-Time AI Compliance Backend

ZeroDrift, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401(k)

Job summary

ZeroDrift is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help build the infrastructure that lets AI apps query policy in milliseconds. You will own connecting agents to ZeroDrift, the policy backend, and the low-latency backend that enforces rules in real time.

This hands-on IC role offers early equity, a hybrid NYC office three days a week, and the chance to shape a new category in enterprise AI safety.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backends at scale.
• Strong in a modern backend language (Go, Python, Java, or Node).
• Solid with APIs, distributed systems, databases, queues, and caching.

Responsibilities

• Build the layer that connects AI agents and developer frameworks to ZeroDrift: proxies, SDKs, and agent tooling.
• Own the policy backend: the connectors, the ingest of rule sources and restricted lists, and the engine that tracks when rules change.
• Build the controls that decide what each agent is allowed to do.
• Hit low latency and high reliability under enterprise load, since we sit in the path of every message.
• Hold a high bar for security and data protection on sensitive content.

Skills

Backend development

Go/Python/Java/Node

Distributed systems

Latency focus

Cloud & CI/CD

Job description

ZeroDrift is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help build the infrastructure that lets AI apps query policy in milliseconds. You will own connecting agents to ZeroDrift, the policy backend, and the low-latency backend that enforces rules in real time.

This hands-on IC role offers early equity, a hybrid NYC office three days a week, and the chance to shape a new category in enterprise AI safety.