# Founding Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Zania](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zania)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Distributed Systems, Spark, AWS, Azure, GCP, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-01-17

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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