Software Engineer II
Reality Defender2 months ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$140k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Microsoft Teams bot applications and integrations
- Build low-latency, reliable, high-quality real-time audio and video streaming features
- Develop Windows-based services and applications using C# and .NET
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications in Kubernetes
- Integrate Microsoft APIs, SDKs, authentication systems, and cloud services
- Diagnose media issues involving codecs, synchronization, buffering, packet loss, and network conditions
- Create automated tests and participate in code reviews
- Troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and media diagnostics
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate requirements into maintainable solutions
- Produce clear technical and operational documentation
- Within six months, contribute production-ready Teams bot features, independently resolve common audio/video streaming problems, troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments, and improve media pipeline reliability, test coverage, scalability, and observability
Requirements
- Approximately 3–5 years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency with C#, .NET, and asynchronous or concurrent programming
- Professional experience developing software for Windows
- Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time audio streaming systems
- Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time video streaming systems
- Production experience deploying and operating containerized applications with Kubernetes
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads, networking, configuration, resource usage, scaling, and application failures
- Understanding of real-time media concepts including codecs, frame and sample formats, buffering, latency, synchronization, and network transport
- Experience integrating with REST APIs, SDKs, and event-driven systems
- Familiarity with multithreading, memory management, performance profiling, and debugging
- Experience with Git, automated testing, and modern CI/CD practices
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Preferred experience developing Microsoft Teams apps, bots, calling solutions, or meeting integrations
- Preferred familiarity with Microsoft Graph, Azure Bot Service, Teams SDKs, or related Microsoft communications APIs
- Preferred familiarity with COM and COM interoperability from .NET
- Preferred experience with WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, SRTP, SIP, FFmpeg, GStreamer, or Media Foundation
- Preferred experience with Azure services, Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, and application permissions
- Preferred knowledge of Windows audio/video APIs, device capture, or virtual media devices
- Preferred experience with Helm, Kubernetes operators, ingress controllers, and observability platforms
- Preferred experience operating real-time communications software in production
Benefits
- Healthcare plans with 100% employee premium coverage and partial dependent coverage
- Dental and vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and dependents
- Short- and long-term disability and life insurance with 100% employee premium coverage
- FSA/HSA and 401(k) programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of parental leave
- Learning and development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
- NYC HQ employees receive daily in-office lunch through UberEats, commuter benefits, remote Fridays, happy hours, and other local events
Tech Stack
About Reality Defender
Reality Defender builds AI models and an API-first platform to detect deepfakes across audio, video, images, and text for enterprises and governments. It offers an API and enterprise software to embed detection into call centers, identity verification, fraud prevention, and media workflows. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company is backed by investors including DCVC and Y Combinator.