Get the chrome extension Senior Software Engineer (Platform Core)
Pindrop
Who We Are
Pindrop is the Real Human + Right Human® Identity Trust Platform for the AI era. As AI-driven fraud and deepfakes erode trust in digital communication, Pindrop delivers continuous identity verification and deepfake detection across voice, video, and digital interactions in real time.
Enterprises rely on Pindrop to secure billions of high-risk customer interactions each year, including top U.S. banks, as well as leading insurers and healthcare providers. Powered by models trained on more than 1.5 billion real-world interactions annually and protected by 300+ patents, Pindrop restores trust while reducing fraud, lowering operational costs, and improving customer experience.
Recognized by TIME as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Software Companies of 2026 and by Inc. for Best in Business for Innovation, Pindrop is backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Software Engineer on Platform Core, you will own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services that every Pindrop product depends on. Platform Core owns foundational services including IAM, Interaction Service, Data Lake, reporting, and admin services, and the team is responsible for keeping these systems fast, reliable, and SLA-compliant even on record call-volume days.
More specifically, you will:
- Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs that support high-volume customer interactions.
- Take end-to-end ownership of platform work, from framing ambiguous problems and shaping technical plans through implementation, rollout, and production support.
- Improve reliability, scalability, latency, and cost across shared platform systems that serve teams across the business.
- Partner closely with Product, SRE, and peer engineering teams to deliver platform improvements without destabilizing live traffic.
- Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, and capacity planning.
- Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, and mentorship for other engineers on the team.
Who you are
- You are self-directed, accountable, and able to drive work forward with limited supervision.
- You are calm under pressure and bring sound judgment during incidents, tradeoff discussions, and periods of ambiguity.
- You are collaborative and communicate clearly across technical and cross-functional partners.
- You are motivated by foundational platform work, shared infrastructure, and reliability-oriented backend engineering.
- You have a mentorship mindset and raise team standards by example.
Your skill-set
Must-haves:
- 5-7+ years of experience building backend services and APIs in production, or equivalent practical depth.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go.
- Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker.
- Proven production ownership, including deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and participating in on-call for high-scale services.
- Strong experience with data and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ, along with the ability to reason about reliability, performance, and scale tradeoffs.
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience with Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, or IAM.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform.
- Strong observability habits across metrics, logs, and traces.
- Experience scaling or migrating databases, including read replicas, cluster mode, or engine migrations.
What’s in it for you
Platform Core is the backbone the whole product depends on. In this role, your decisions will directly influence latency, reliability, scale, and cost across the systems that process customer traffic every day. You will own meaningful distributed systems work end to end, help the team scale through peak and record-load events, and increase the amount of major platform work Core can take on in parallel without compromising production stability. You will also work alongside experienced engineers across Core and adjacent teams, with a clear path to grow from strong senior execution into broader technical leadership and Staff-level impact over time.
What we offer
As a part of Pindrop, you’ll have a direct impact on our growing list of products and the future of security in the voice-driven economy. We hire great people and take care of them. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits we offer:
- Competitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees, so everyone shares in our long-term success.
- Remote-first environment - giving you flexibility and autonomy in how you structure your day.
- While we work flexibly, we prioritize meaningful in-person moments through regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings that foster connection, collaboration, and shared success.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Generous health and welfare plans to choose from - including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan!
- Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution
- Low-cost vision and dental plans for you and your family, providing comprehensive coverage and peace of mind.
- Paid Parental Leave - Including birth, adoptive & foster parents
- One year of diaper delivery for your newest addition to the family! It’s our way of welcoming new Pindroplets to the family!
- Recurring monthly phone and internet allowance to help cover essential connectivity costs and support flexible work.
- Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits to support family-building journeys and personalized health needs.
- Annual Learning & Development stipend to support your professional growth, skill-building, certifications, and continued education.
Please note that the base pay range is a general guideline only. Pindrop considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills, as well as market and business considerations, when extending an offer.
Not sure if this is you?
We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.
AI - A Transformative Force
At Pindrop, we view artificial intelligence as a transformative force that, when harnessed responsibly, can unlock unprecedented value for our customers, partners and society and enable and empower us to continue to deliver cutting-edge technology to combat fraud and unblur the lines between what it means to be human versus machine.
Pindrop may use AI tools to help prioritize job applications for human review. The AI tool may analyze your work experience and skills to assess fit for the role, but does not consider your name or contact details. Applications with the strongest match to job requirements are prioritized for human review; not all applications may be individually reviewed.
Pindrop is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Here at Pindrop, it is our mission to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, marital and/or veteran status.
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Senior Platform Engineer - Data Platform
Rockstar
Rockstar is recruiting for an innovative data platform company that builds secure, scalable systems for identity, access control, and data management. Their team of experienced backend engineers works on cutting-edge graph database technology, focusing on reliability, security, and performance.
Position Overview
They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the core services that power user controls, identity, security, secure content sharing, resource management, and data access across their platform. This role combines backend service development with contributions to Dgraph internals, making it an excellent opportunity for engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed systems and security challenges. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across the stack but has deep expertise in backend engineering, with strong proficiency in Go and Python.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services for user controls, identity, and security across the platform.
- Develop and strengthen secure content sharing capabilities, ensuring the right users have access to the right data under the appropriate conditions.
- Contribute to Data Studio and related tools that expose platform data to internal and external users.
- Work on Dgraph internals when needed while building services and applications on top of Dgraph.
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, and integrations teams to maintain consistent identity and security primitives across the ecosystem.
- Drive technical decisions around data access patterns, permissions models, and secure sharing architecture.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code in Go and Python with a focus on reliability, security, and performance.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical planning for the data platform.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend or platform engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Go and Python.
- Experience building identity, access control, permissions, authentication, authorization, or other security-focused systems.
- Comfortable working across the full stack, with a strong preference and expertise in backend services.
- Experience with graph databases (Dgraph or similar) is highly preferred.
- Interest in contributing to database internals is a plus.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, security, and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident residing within the United States.
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Software Engineer, Content Platform
This role is remote friendly. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.
Who We Are:
The Infrastructure organization enables Reddit to deliver Reliability, Performance and Efficiency, with a single opinionated technology stack. The Content Platform team within Infrastructure additionally focuses on empowering product teams to build the best possible Content-related experiences, easily and reliably. This is a high-impact team that owns the Tier-0 services and core data models that power some of the most visible aspects of our product - viewing a feed, posting, commenting, upvoting - and we work closely with teams like Consumer, Ads, Feeds, Storage and Ranking. This team is also responsible for running and maintaining R2 – Reddit’s monolith legacy stack that is pretty much in the critical path for every Critical User Journey at Reddit.
We are looking to hire a Software Engineer to help us in this mission. This is a high impact role where your passion for building and maintaining high quality code, scaling Tier-0 infrastructure and building high-leverage platform services will enable our partner product teams to deliver tangible user value.
What You’ll Do:
As a software engineer, you will work with teammates and partner teams to create and improve scalable, fault tolerant, self-serve systems that comprise the Content Platform at Reddit. You will also:
- Design, write, and deliver software (mostly in Go, sometimes in Python) to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit’s products
- Dive deep into the codebase of a suite of Go services owned by the team as well as one of Reddit’s monolith Python legacy stack
- Be able to make system level improvements, enhancements and implement complex code modifications
- Develop judgment to identify and discuss gaps in our current platform; Help evolve it for next 2+ years of growth
- Work collaboratively with wide variety of cross-functional teams across Reddit; actively engage in soliciting customer feedback
- Collaborate with teammates to share on-call responsibilities and support monitoring/alerting to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Reddit
- Continue improving your own technical abilities, acumen and soft skills
Who You Might Be:
- 3+ years of software engineering experience in a production setting writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java
- Experience working with one or more databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Redis
- Experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure like Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS/GCP
- Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Prior experience with scaled, high rate platform services and API design is a plus
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k Match
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit .
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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