Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time.

Ambient.ai is the leading agentic physical security platform built to prevent incidents and modernize physical security operations. Our products help the world’s leading enterprises reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies, along with multiple Fortune 500 organizations, rely on Ambient.ai to protect their people, places and assets.

Our platform uses state-of-the-art AI to seamlessly integrate with existing camera and sensor systems, enabling real-time monitoring and proactive threat detection. By reducing false alarms by over 95%, Ambient.ai allows security teams to focus on real threats and prevent incidents before they occur.

Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is a Series B company on a mission to make every security incident preventable.

Recently, we've ranked #71 out of 500 on the Forbes best start up employers list!

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About the role:

We are bootstrapping our India Technology Engineering division with exponential growth ahead. Working under the leadership of Kiran Palan and Vikesh Khanna, you will contribute majorly to our core platform and security engineering of Ambient.ai and will help in bootstrapping India Technology Centre.

What you'll do:

• Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints

• Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive fault-tolerant microservices

• Core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data

• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of all backend services

• Develop large-size platform problems and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end

• You will work as an important member of the platform team that owns one or more services/product features, end-to-end

• Expect to be challenged and stretch your skills regularly

What you'll bring:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background

• At least 7+ years of experience building scalable and available web services

• Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages like Python, C++, Golang would be required

• Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems

• Write clean and maintainable code

• Design and implement complex systems including communication between several services (pub-sub paradigm, microservices architecture)

• Manage service reliability, including any cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud)

• Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ,ActiveMQ or similar tools/technologies will be highly preferred

• Experience building SaaS product offerings will be a huge advantage

Why join us:

• We are creating an entirely new category within a 180+ billion-dollar physical security industry and looking for team members who are also passionate about our mission to prevent every security incident possible

• We have an impressive customer roster of Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, VMware, and Linkedin

• Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of our company

• We offer generous time off to rest and recharge including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s for most roles depending on customer demand)

• The latest tech and awesome swag delivered to your door

• Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers

Ambient.ai is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Ambient does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. Ambient is an E-Verify participant.