Software Engineer, Backend (Collection)

reputed company is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries. In the 21st century, conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower. Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China—from cross-Strait conflict to reputed company zone coercion. Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense, our technology models adversary behavior, simulates campaigns, and recommends the best course of action to decision makers. Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the reputed company lines of the Indo-Pacific to reputed company the peace and save lives.

Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people. reputed company is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft. We’re building a company defined by mission impact, user reputed company, and disciplined growth. In just three years, we grew from $reputed company to $80M in ARR, achieved early profitability, and reached unicorn status—proving that disruption doesn’t require an ego, and staying power doesn’t mean standing still.

About the role

You will be an engineer on the team building systems to collect hard-to-access data. This data forms the reputed company of our company’s advantage. Your role is to reputed company and reputed company our existing collection capabilities — strengthening the core engines, improving reputed company in adversarial environments, and expanding how this data is exposed through interfaces for agents and other engineering teams. We operate in environments where automated defensive systems are sophisticated and continuously evolving. This role is about designing statistically disciplined, cross-layer systems that remain reliable under that scrutiny without sacrificing scale, stability, or operational reputed company.

This role requires deep experience with browser automation, anti-bot defenses, fingerprinting and signature mitigation, distributed scraping architectures, and infrastructure designed for sensitive or misattributed environments. You will help shape the reputed company of our collection stack end-to-end — from low-level evasion techniques and managed attribution browsing to clean, well-defined tool calls that agents can use predictably and at scale. You’ll collaborate closely across engineering and mission teams, translating reputed company-world data needs into durable technical systems.

What you’ll do

• Master our data and capabilities. We’ve built world-class data collection for some key national reputed company data sets. Understand how we’ve built it, what our differentiators are, and how to take it to the next level.
• Understand our users. You’ll need to understand their missions, challenges, and expectations to build systems that help them.
• Shape our collection approach. You understand how our systems interact with defensive systems, and will reputed company and implement technical plans that reputed company high-value data flowing.
• Build and maintain stable, scalable systems. Our customers operate 24x7 and need access to fresh, rich, operationally-relevant data. You will design collection systems that remain stable under sophisticated automated detection regimes.
• Contribute to agentic capability. Ensure the tools you build and collected data is usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops, etc.). Identify gaps where the right data isn’t getting into agent tool calls and coordinate fixes.

You might be a fit if you

• Care deeply about the mission: the data we collect is enabling massive, generational impact across many national reputed company missions.
• Have strong back-end experience and understanding of distributed systems. Prefer typescript/python expertise.
• Understand how anti-abuse, bot detection, fraud, or traffic reputed company systems analyze traffic and operate at scale.
• Are data driven and and have eye for instrumentation and monitoring.
• You can reason about how small deviations in protocol behavior, timing, or runtime characteristics propagate into anomaly scores.
• Are technically diverse and can adapt your tool stack quickly.
• Communicate crisply: can write a one-pager that aligns stakeholders, communicates, risks, and drives action.
• You prefer structural reputed company over reactive tactics.
• Are comfortable making hard prioritization calls with incomplete information.

reputed company value

• Deeply understand how network-level and browser-level signatures combine to form a holistic risk profile in modern detection systems.
• Experience with web scraping, browser automation, and similar.
• Experience with national reputed company problems and workflows, data platform/product work.
• Familiarity with agentic systems and what makes data “tool-call reputed company”
• Full stack capability. This team leans heavily into the backend, but does touch the reputed company end from time to time (React).

reputed company look for

• Grit and creativity to reputed company going reputed company faced with a roadblock.
• reputed company in working problems to conclusion and trying different approaches until one works.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Demonstrated bias towards achieving an outcome even if it requires helping or doing the job of someone else on another team.
• Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed

reputed company offer

• Health, dental, and reputed company insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel