Software Engineer, Backend (Collection Fingerprinting)

What you’ll do

• Master our data and capabilities. Understand how we’ve built world-class data collection for key national security data sets, our differentiators, and how to take it to the next level.
• Understand our users and their missions, challenges, and expectations to build systems that help them.
• Shape our collection approach by developing and implementing technical plans that keep high-value data flowing under defensive systems.
• Build and maintain stable, scalable systems that remain reliable under sophisticated automated detection regimes.
• Contribute to agentic capability by ensuring tools and data are usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops, etc.) and coordinate fixes for gaps.

You might be a fit if you

• Have strong back-end experience and understanding of distributed systems. Prefer TypeScript/Python expertise.
• Understand how anti-abuse, bot detection, fraud, or traffic integrity systems analyze traffic at scale.
• Are data driven with an eye for instrumentation and monitoring.
• Can reason about how small deviations in protocol behavior, timing, or runtime characteristics propagate into anomaly scores.
• Are technically diverse and can adapt your tool stack quickly.

What we value

• Deeply understand how network-level and browser-level signatures combine to form holistic risk profiles in modern detection systems.
• Experience with web scraping, browser automation, and similar.
• Experience with national security problems and workflows, data platform/product work.
• Familiarity with agentic systems and what makes data “tool-call ready”.
• Full stack capability (leans backend, touches frontend with React).