Staff Software Engineer - Real-Time Backend, Equity, Hybrid

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k)

Job summary

ZeroDrift is hiring a senior backend engineer to scale our enforcement infrastructure and own the integration layer that lets AI agents talk to ZeroDrift. You will shape the architecture and own the policy backend, with equity upside and visibility across the company.

This is a hands-on IC role with a focus on latency, reliability, and secure handling of sensitive data; three days per week in the New York City office (4 World Trade Center) and the rest remote, in a flexible hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and running production backends at scale.
• Proficiency in a modern backend language (Go, Python, Java or Node).
• Experience with APIs and distributed systems.
• Comfort with cloud, containers and CI/CD.
• Focus on latency, reliability and clean code.
• Experience with low-latency or real-time systems.
• Experience handling sensitive or regulated data.

Responsibilities

• Build the layer that connects AI agents and developer frameworks to ZeroDrift: proxies, SDKs, and agent tooling.
• Own the policy backend: connectors, rule ingestion, and the engine that tracks rule changes.
• Build controls determining what each agent can do.
• Ensure low latency and high reliability under enterprise load.
• Maintain strong security and data protection for sensitive content.

Skills

Back-end systems

Backend languages

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud

Containers

CI/CD

Latency

Reliability

Low latency

Real-time

Regulated data

Job description

ZeroDrift is hiring a senior backend engineer to scale our enforcement infrastructure and own the integration layer that lets AI agents talk to ZeroDrift. You will shape the architecture and own the policy backend, with equity upside and visibility across the company.

This is a hands-on IC role with a focus on latency, reliability, and secure handling of sensitive data; three days per week in the New York City office (4 World Trade Center) and the rest remote, in a flexible hybrid setup.