Backend Software Engineer

The role

You will architect low latency, real-time microservices that process and detect sensitive data at scale. You will build authentication and API services and maintain mission-critical internal databases and services.

What you will do

• Building highly available and secure authentication and API services.
• Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services.
• Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services.
• Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer.
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.

Required qualifications

• Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++)
• Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9’s) systems.
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
• Experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
• 5+ years of experience

About the company

Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. It is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures, Venrock, WestBridge Capital, and Pear VC.