Zania
Founding Senior Software Engineer
Palo Alto, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 186 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsSparkAgentic AIResearchCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- As a Software Engineer, you will be a core member of our engineering team, building the backend systems that power both our core product and our agentic AI platform.
- This is a backend-focused role for engineers who thrive on solving challenges at a massive scale; full-stack experience is a strong plus.
- You will design, build, and deploy the critical infrastructure and services that handle everything from petabyte-scale data retrieval to running thousand-step AI agents.
Responsibilities
- Engineer Core Product Features: Take ownership of building and delivering scalable, secure backend services that directly power our user-facing product.
- Build Petabyte-Scale AI Pipelines: Design and implement robust systems for retrieval over petabyte-scale document troves and engineer pipelines for large-scale data collection.
- Develop Advanced Agentic Systems: Build the backend infrastructure for complex, 1000-step planning agents that help companies with critical processes, and create organizational-level interfaces for human-AI collaboration.
- Python: For building robust backend services and AI pipelines.
- Ownership and Drive: You take full ownership of your projects, demonstrating a strong bias for action and the ability to manage complex priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of delivering complex, high-quality backend systems
- Hands-on proficiency in Python and experience with large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Proven Technical Impact: A demonstrated track record of delivering complex, high-quality backend systems.
- Deep Technical Expertise: You are a hands-on, highly technical backend engineer with proficiency in:
- Large-Scale Systems: Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark), and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Pragmatic Problem-Solving: You are a proactive and resourceful problem-solver who is comfortable with ambiguity and sees immense challenges as opportunities for growth.
- Clear Communication: You can articulate complex technical ideas clearly and persuasively to stakeholders across the organization.
Nice to have
- Experience is a plus for contributing across the stack but is not required.
- This is a backend-focused role for engineers who thrive on solving challenges at a massive scale
- full-stack experience is a strong plus.
- TypeScript and React: Experience is a plus for contributing across the stack but is not required.
Skills
- Contribute to the architecture and management of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
Compensation
- Competitive Compensation & Equity.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation & Equity.
Company info
- Every enterprise spends millions of dollars on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC).
- It's one of the most critical, yet universally painful, parts of running a business.
- For decades, this industry has been dominated by legacy systems with notoriously low NPS scores, making it totally ripe for disruption.
- Zania is building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) to solve this massive problem.
- We are on a rocketship trajectory, creating intelligent agents that automate and augment the most complex risk and compliance workflows.
- We have found exceptional product-market fit and are scaling our team very quickly.
- Our customers are the most notable enterprises in the world, including FAANG, Big 4 firms and a portfolio of top customers.
- Zania is hiring the best.
- Our team includes AI and Security leaders from Airbnb, Microsoft, Bain & Company, Deloitte, PwC, Brex, and Instacart.
- What We're Looking For:
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