Backend Senior Software Engineer, Attack and User Emulation Team (AUE)
SimSpace Corporation4 hours ago
Base Salary
$160k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and deliver scalable, fault-tolerant, resilient distributed microservices for cybersecurity range simulations.
- Design platform capabilities that coordinate AI-enabled services and autonomous workflows for dynamic attack and user emulation.
- Partner with product managers, UX designers, and engineering leadership to define roadmaps and lead multi-quarter technical initiatives.
- Drive reliability, performance tuning, fault tolerance, code quality, testing, API design, and system architecture standards.
- Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, feedback, and delegation of high-impact initiatives.
- Build observability, telemetry, alerting, high-availability, incident-resolution, and zero-downtime deployment capabilities.
- Embed security, compliance, and offensive and defensive mitigation patterns into system design and the software development lifecycle.
- Document architectural decisions, technical specifications, and reusable system design patterns.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of hands-on software development experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed microservices in production.
- A two-year degree in science and technology or commensurate experience.
- Deep expertise in object-oriented languages such as Java or Kotlin, including advanced API design, system integration, and event-driven architectures.
- Production expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and Spring Boot.
- Experience integrating AI or LLM capabilities into production software systems, including attention to service boundaries, context management, reliability, security, and observability.
- Experience leading complex multi-system initiatives and making pragmatic trade-offs involving speed, scalability, and technical debt.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts, including offensive and defensive tactics, user emulation techniques, or threat landscapes.
- Experience identifying system bottlenecks, improving fault tolerance, and resolving complex distributed-systems failures.
- Experience with agentic workflows, orchestration systems, MCP, or A2A communication patterns is a plus.
- Experience integrating AI or machine-learning capabilities into production backend systems and exposure to reinforcement-learning concepts are nice to have.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $185,000–$260,000 plus potential annual performance bonuses.
- Medical, dental, vision, and savings-plan benefits beginning on day one.
- Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources through Spring Health.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match, paid parental leave, and equity stock options.
- $1,500–$3,500 employee referral rewards, Peloton wellness subsidies and equipment discounts, LinkedIn Learning, SocialSpace reimbursements, legal-plan coverage, pet insurance, and wellness reimbursements.
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About SimSpace Corporation
Allied governments, militaries, commercial enterprises, and research universities worldwide trust SimSpace as the AI Proving Grounds where human operators and AI agents train and test together in a realistic replica of their production environments to outperform and outsmart any adversary in any terrain. To learn why SimSpace is the trusted AI Proving Grounds for elite cyber teams, visit www.SimSpace.com.