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About the Role
Latent Defense is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to transition its infrastructure from an MVP to a production-ready product. This role involves owning customer deployments, the telemetry platform, and critical hardening and scaling efforts. The engineer will operate with significant autonomy, redesigning systems to support production customers.
Responsibilities
- Own deployment of Latent Defense's product into customer infrastructure, including Kubernetes and Docker-based environments
- Build and harden the telemetry platform that lets the team measure and improve system-wide reliability and efficacy
- Redesign infrastructure and backend systems as the company moves from an early MVP to a scaled, GA product
- Operate with significant autonomy — take on ambiguous infrastructure problems and drive them to resolution without heavy direction
- Use AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow, while keeping the underlying engineering judgment that agents can't replace
- Partner with the rest of the engineering team (currently more junior) to raise the technical bar and unblock hard problems
- Work closely with the Director of Engineering on architecture, technical direction, and delivery rigor as the team scales
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with real infrastructure/backend depth
- Fluency with TypeScript, Python, and Postgres
- Experience deploying and supporting software directly in customer-owned infrastructure, not just centrally-hosted SaaS
- A track record of redesigning or hardening systems as they scale, not just building new features
- Comfortable operating with minimal direction in a small, fast-moving team
- Agent-native — uses AI coding tools fluently, but has the underlying engineering instinct to know when to trust them and when not to
- Experience at a seed-stage startup; founder experience is a strong plus
Skills
- TypeScript
- Python
- Postgres
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AI coding agents
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000-$250,000
Benefits
- 0.5%-0.7% Equity
- Top of market health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
About the Company
- Latent Defense is building the world model for cybersecurity, graphing company systems, identifying attack paths, and providing remediation.
- The team is developing an autonomous system that models, validates, and remediates vulnerabilities.
- Latent Defense is a small, seed-stage team scaling from an early product to autonomous real-world operation.