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Backend Engineer

depthfirst· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Experienced Backend Engineer to build and scale the AI-native platform that autonomously finds and fixes software vulnerabilities, focusing on infrastructure for security AI agents, scalable architectures, and orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Be a Technical Leader: Provide mentorship, set technical direction, and define best practices for backend engineering at depthfirst.
  • Architect and Scale complex coding agent pipelines that scan and execute very large codebases to find the most intricate vulnerability.
  • Build, Maintain and Evolve evaluation benchmarks for AI agents that reflects the problems our users face
  • Take Ownership of our product, contributing to its architecture, performance, and long-term success
  • Work on a Product that Solves a Critical Problem - and we already have a handful of customers who have found it valuable in fixing some eye-opening vulnerabilities within the first few days of using our product.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of full-time experience in backend software engineering
  • A passion for programming and solving problems with code. Building reliable and stable products to solve real user problems
  • Familiarity with multiple languages is a plus. Our stack is Typescript/Python
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems
  • Capable of solving complex problems with simple solutions. Building reliable and scalable products, making right trade-offs along the way
  • A tendency to leave things in a better way than you found it

Skills

Required:Backend software engineering

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary with meaningful equity
  • Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
  • Office lunch and dinner (when working from our San Francisco office)
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About depthfirst

Autonomous Security from Design to Production

An AI-native platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.

SecurityAIVulnerability DetectionStatic AnalysisDynamic TestingSupply Chain Security
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