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ZaniaZaniaSan Francisco, CA

Founding Senior Software Engineer

Build scalable backend systems and petabyte-scale AI pipelines for agentic GRC platform handling sensitive enterprise data. Requires 5+ years experience with Python, distributed systems, and cloud platforms; full-stack skills a plus.

120k – 230k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • 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.
  • Contribute to the architecture and management of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Engineer systems with the highest standards of security and reliability to protect the world's most sensitive data.

What We're Looking For

  • Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (not intended for recent graduates).
  • Proven Technical Impact: A demonstrated track record of delivering complex, high-quality backend systems.
  • Product Building Experience: You have a history of building and launching robust products or platforms, ideally in a hyper-growth or 0-to-1 startup environment.
  • Deep Technical Expertise:
    • Python: For building robust backend services and AI pipelines.
    • Large-Scale Systems: Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark), and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
    • TypeScript and React: Experience is a plus for contributing across the stack but is not required.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Flexible PTO policy.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Meals and snacks in the office.
  • Relocation and immigration support.

Skills

PythonDistributed SystemsSparkAWSAzureGCPTypeScriptReactKubernetes
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