Dioptra (an Icertis Company) — Senior Software Engineer
$180,000–$280,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Architect and build core AI agent systems from scratch, focusing on security-critical components like encryption, key management, and SOC 2 controls. Design robust workflows integrating LLMs, APIs, and external tools while establishing engineering best practices in a high-velocity, founder-led environment. Stand up and scale cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure, including meaningful DevOps work, to support production-grade Python ML and agentic infrastructure. Translate ambiguous enterprise security requirements into concrete systems and self-direct the end-to-end delivery of these critical features.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years building and shipping production backend systems
- A track record of shipping production systems in a startup or other high-ownership environment
- Time spent at a small startup (under 100 people) as a founder, founding engineer, or early hire
- Experience designing or implementing security-sensitive systems such as encryption, key management, and authentication
- Hands-on experience building or deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered agents in production
- Strong, production-grade Python for ML and agentic infrastructure
- Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS or Azure, including DevOps
- Production experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
- Ability to build agentic systems end to end and reason about agent orchestration and MCP at a systems-design level
- High agency: you self-direct, identify problems, and solve them independently
- Comfort translating ambiguous enterprise security requirements into concrete systems
- Willing to work on-site 5 days per week in New York or San Francisco
Desired Qualifications
- Experience at a larger, established technology company alongside your startup chapters, for balance
- Background building or securing systems in a regulated domain (for example fintech or health tech)
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