Staff Software Engineer — Secure, Scalable Infrastructure & Telemetry

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

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Healthcare benefits

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid work schedule

Résumé du poste

Latent Defense, a seed-stage cybersecurity startup, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to move the product from MVP to GA readiness. You’ll own customer deployments (Kubernetes, Docker), the telemetry platform, and the hardening needed to bring real customers into production.

The role offers significant autonomy in a small team and collaboration with founders and the Director of Engineering. This NYC-based position requires 3+ days/week in the Nomad office and involves redesigning systems as

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering with real infrastructure/backend depth.
• Fluency with TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience deploying and supporting software directly in customer-owned infrastructure.
• Track record of redesigning or hardening systems as they scale.
• Comfortable operating with minimal direction in a small, fast-moving team.
• Agent-native — uses AI coding tools fluently, but maintains engineering judgment.
• Seed-stage startup experience or founder experience is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Own deployment of Latent Defense's product into customer infrastructure, including Kubernetes and Docker-based environments.
• Build and harden the telemetry platform for system-wide reliability and efficacy.
• Redesign infrastructure and backend systems as the company scales to GA.
• Operate with significant autonomy to resolve ambiguous infrastructure problems.
• Use AI coding agents as part of workflow while retaining engineering judgment.
• Partner with the engineering team to raise technical bar and unblock hard problems.
• Collaborate with the Director of Engineering on architecture and delivery rigor.

Connaissances

Backend infrastructure depth

TypeScript

Python

PostgreSQL

Customer deployments

Outils

Docker

Kubernetes

Telemetry platform

Description du poste

Latent Defense, a seed-stage cybersecurity startup, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to move the product from MVP to GA readiness. You’ll own customer deployments (Kubernetes, Docker), the telemetry platform, and the hardening needed to bring real customers into production.

The role offers significant autonomy in a small team and collaboration with founders and the Director of Engineering. This NYC-based position requires 3+ days/week in the Nomad office and involves redesigning systems as