Senior Software Engineer: Backend

Protect AI is shaping, defining, and innovating a new category within cybersecurity around the risk and security of AI/ML. Our comprehensive AI Security Platform enables customers to see, know, and manage security risks to defend against unique AI security threats, and embrace MLSecOps for a safer AI-powered world. This includes a broad set of capabilities including AI supply chain security, Auditable Bill of Materials for AI, ML model scanning, signing, attestation and LLM Security.

Join our team to help us solve this critical need of protecting AI!

Protect AI is seeking software development engineer (SDE) to join our growing Engineering team. Our strong engineering team builds and operates ‘Protect AI Platform’ covering everything from AI supply chain security and ML Model Scanning to LLM Security. You will work closely with fellow Software Engineers who bring a variety of skillset to the table including Backend, Frontend, Infra, ML and Security Engineering. You will also get opportunity to work closely with Product Managers, Architects and our CTO.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop innovative products end to end taking ownership of DevSecOps

• Collaborate across functions (Product Managers, UX Designers, Solution Architects and Engineers) to understand requirements and develop solutions

• Act as a technical leader and mentor junior team members

• Continuously improve the software development process, including testing, deployment, and monitoring

Qualifications:

1. Solid problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of a couple of programming languages. Strong experience or willingness to learn Go and Python.

2. Proven expertise in designing and building distributed systems, including synchronous and asynchronous communication methods.

3. Experienced in end-to-end development processes, including unit, integration, and functional testing, distributed architecture, application tuning/profiling, and continuous integration.

4. An agile mindset with the ability to advocate for cross-functional collaboration. Passion for helping others grow through peer-to-peer mentoring and knowledge-sharing sessions.

5. Proficiency in working with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI) and Infrastructure as Code.(Terraform). Experience working with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.

6. Ownership mindset with experience handling on-call responsibilities and enhancing operational readiness.

7. ML/MLOps experience would be a plus.

What We Offer:

• An exciting, collaborative work environment in a fast-growing startup.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development including attending and presenting technical talks at meetups and conferences.

• A culture that values innovation, accountability, and teamwork.

• Opportunities to contribute to our open source projects with thousands of Github stars.

• Work with a team of talented and well-accomplished peers from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle Cloud.

• Work with best in class tools — M3 Macbook Pro, 34” Monitor, modern tech stack and high quality collaboration tools.

• No bureaucracy and legacy systems. You are empowered to innovate and do your best work.

• Spacious office in the centre of Berlin.

• Weekly food allowance.

Protect AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.