Software Engineer, Backend

About the Company

10a Labs is the safety and threat-intelligence layer trusted by frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Our adversarial red teaming, model evaluations, and intelligence collection enable engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly reliable, distributed, backend services and APIs using Python and Kotlin
• Work closely with researchers, security engineers, and product teammates to bring AI-driven features to production
• Apply best practices for authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection
• Integrate and optimize advanced AI/ML models within backend architectures
• Deploy and manage services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and API Gateway
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years of hands-on backend development in production environments
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, or Go
• Strong understanding of security best practices (OAuth, JWT, encryption, and mitigation of attack vectors)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience designing end-to-end backend systems from architecture to monitoring
• Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating and optimizing AI models (NLP, vision, multimodal systems)
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases