Backend Software Engineer (Recent Grad)
Role Overview
As a Backend Software Engineer at Nightfall, you will develop and maintain scalable APIs and services, ensuring the reliability and security of the platform. This junior role involves collaborating with team leads on building low latency microservices and optimizing internal databases. Your contributions will directly impact the platform's ability to prevent data loss and manage insider risks at scale.
Perks & Benefits
Nightfall offers a hybrid work setup with three days in the office located in the South Bay area, allowing for collaboration while also accommodating remote work. The company fosters a culture of innovation and professional growth, backed by leading venture capital firms and experts in cybersecurity. Expect a supportive environment that encourages skill development and operational excellence.
Full Job Description
About Nightfall:
Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.
Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.
About the role:
As a Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you’ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You’ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.
This is a hybrid role (3 day office) based out of our South Bay area (Palo Alto) office.
Responsibilities
Working with team leads to build highly-available and scalable APIs and services
Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services
Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data and AI/ML services
Instrumenting streaming data and AI/ML services for visibility into utilization per customer
Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services
Participating in oncall rotation for ensuring operational excellence
Qualifications
Coding fluency in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) with solid understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
Internship or other industry experience with large-scale microservices, distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra)
BS/MS in Computer Science with rigorous coursework in Distributed Systems, Databases, Networking, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning with top grades
Recent graduate with authorization to work in the US
Tools We Use:
Go
Python
Postgres
Cassandra
Redis
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Kafka
Snowflake
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