1 year ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$160k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and drive architectural decisions for core systems and services while balancing speed, scalability, and security.
- Lead the design and development of distributed backend systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Provide technical leadership across backend services and frontend applications.
- Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing.
- Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to shape technical roadmaps.
- Address cross-cutting concerns including observability, reliability, and performance.
- Champion engineering best practices, code quality, testing, and maintainability.
- Bring innovative approaches from AI, automation, and security trends into the platform.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership in designing and scaling complex systems.
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles and distributed systems.
- Expertise in at least one backend language such as Go or Python, or equivalent.
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, or TypeScript.
- Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, or equivalent.
- Ability to lead technical direction and mentor other engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- GCP certifications such as Professional Cloud Developer or Professional Data Engineer are preferred.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AI/ML concepts, Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Supervised Fine-Tuning, or Vector Databases is a plus.
- Experience working in an early-stage startup environment is a plus.
Benefits
- Monday–Thursday onsite with work-from-home Fridays.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work with AI-driven cybersecurity and Google SecOps technologies.
- Growth and development opportunities in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
- Early-stage startup environment with opportunities to help shape culture and engineering direction.
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About TENEX.AI
TENEX.AI provides an AI-driven Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service that combines automated threat detection with 24/7 U.S.-based analysts for enterprises. It sells MDR subscriptions and related cybersecurity services delivered through its AI SOC platform. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, the privately held company reached Series B financing by 2026.