Senior Backend Software Engineer

About the Company

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. Backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures and Venrock, Nightfall helps security teams automate data loss prevention and remediation.

Responsibilities

• Building highly available and secure authentication and API services
• Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services
• Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services
• Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience
• Expertise in Python, Go, Java, or C++
• Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9’s) systems
• Experience developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g., MySQL, Cassandra)
• Experience building and maintaining large scale or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them