depthfirst

depthfirst

Backend Engineer

San Francisco · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 310 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsPostgreSQLRedisDatabricksAWSTemporalLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationMentoring

About the role

  • You will work on infrastructure that powers our security AI agents.
  • You'll play a central role in designing a scalable infrastructure, solving challenges from code execution at scale, complex agent orchestration, evaluation benchmark and training pipelines.
  • You're excited about this role because you will…

Responsibilities

  • Build, Maintain and Evolve evaluation benchmarks for AI agents that reflects the problems our users face

Requirements

  • A passion for programming and solving problems with code. Building reliable and stable products to solve real user problems
  • Familiarity with multiple languages is a plus. Our stack is Typescript/Python
  • Capable of solving complex problems with simple solutions. Building reliable and scalable products, making right trade-offs along the way
  • A tendency to leave things in a better way than you found it
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  • What We Offer

Nice to have

  • Architect and Scale complex coding agent pipelines that scan and execute very large codebases to find the most intricate vulnerability.
  • Take Ownership of our product, contributing to its architecture, performance, and long-term success
  • 3+ years of full-time experience in backend software engineering
  • A passion for programming and solving problems with code.
  • Familiarity with multiple languages is a plus.
  • Our stack is Typescript/Python
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems

Skills

  • Typescript, Python
  • Temporal, React, NextJS
  • Postgres, Temporal, Redis
  • LLMs everywhere
  • Competitive Salary with meaningful equity
  • Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
  • Office lunch and dinner (when working from our San Francisco office)

Compensation

  • Competitive Salary with meaningful equity

Company info

  • About depthfirst
  • We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization - yet vulnerabilities threaten its integrity, security, and resilience.
  • We are on a mission to solve security.
  • depthfirst is building intelligence to detect and remediate critical software vulnerabilities.
  • We are training and scaling security AI agents to discover zero-days vulnerabilities across large customer codebases and popular open source software.
  • Our founding team includes deep expertise in data, infrastructure, security and LLMs with technical leaders from DeepMind, Databricks, Square, and Faire.
  • We are looking for strong technical people who are interested in working at the intersection of AI, Security, and Infrastructure.
  • depthfirst does not accept agency resumes.
  • Please do not forward resumes to depthfirst employees. depthfirst is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.
  • Work on a Product that Solves a Critical Problem - and we already have a handful of customers who have found it valuable in fixing some eye-opening vulnerabilities within the first few days of using our product.

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