Security & Backend Engineer

About the Company

Boam AI builds managed data solutions that turn messy, unstructured signals from public, private, and proprietary sources into structured, reliable, and always up-to-date intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship reliable, scalable services with senior engineers
• Work on data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery
• Build and operate backend services and APIs that power the core product
• Embed secure-by-default patterns in services, data flows, and infrastructure
• Identify risks early in product design and propose pragmatic solutions
• Guide the engineering team toward secure defaults in code, infrastructure, and workflows
• Harden cloud environments, networks, and services to reduce the attack surface
• Work with ML and data teams on secure handling of models and data
• Partner with customers to ensure their integrations with our platform are safe and seamless

Requirements

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
• Experience owning security-sensitive systems such as auth, permissions, secrets, or data access controls
• Strong skills in Python or Scala
• Applied secure practices across data, code, and infrastructure
• Comfortable with modern cloud deployments and IaC
• Hands-on experience with security reviews, threat modeling, and hardening
• Ability to thrive in high-autonomy environments without heavy process buffers