Senior Software Engineer (Authentication)

Pindrop
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 130,000 - 170,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5-7 yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Ownership","Problem-solving","Mentorship"]

Build and scale secure, low-latency backend services and APIs powering Passport for voice-based identity verification. Work across Go and Python to design cloud-native systems on AWS and GCP, deliver features end-to-end with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, and improve authentication workflows with AI/ML risk signals. Use observability to debug production issues, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate across engineering, test, research, product, and Protect/Passport teams.

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Pindrop
Pindrop
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Authentication)

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Job Summary

Build and scale secure, low-latency backend services and APIs powering Passport for voice-based identity verification. Work across Go and Python to design cloud-native systems on AWS and GCP, deliver features end-to-end with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, and improve authentication workflows with AI/ML risk signals. Use observability to debug production issues, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate across engineering, test, research, product, and Protect/Passport teams.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor high-performance backend services and APIs focused on secure, low-latency authentication and identity workflows.
  • •Build and operate cloud-native services across AWS and GCP with reliability, scale, and secure production operations, including data pipelines feeding downstream ML and risk models.
  • •Deliver features through the full development lifecycle with automated testing, deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • •Collaborate with Research, MLOps, and Protect/Passport teams to integrate AI/ML capabilities and productionize model-backed risk signals for scalable, observable services.
  • •Use observability tooling to troubleshoot production issues, reduce alert noise, and improve reliability and latency; participate in on-call rotation and create documentation/runbooks.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 130,000 - 170,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkRsusPaid LeaveHealth InsuranceDentalVisionHsaLearning BudgetPhone AllowanceInternet Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •5-7+ years of professional backend software development building services and APIs.
  • •Strong experience with Go or Python and fundamentals like data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and Linux-based development.
  • •Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems on AWS or GCP, including managed services such as S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and IAM.
  • •Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, Docker, and Kubernetes, with production ownership across deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and support.
  • •Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems, with strong security and reliability judgment in authentication flows.
Experience:5-7 yearsCybersecurityAuthenticationIdentityFraud preventionAI/ML
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationOwnershipProblem-solvingMentorship
Tech Stack:GoPythonAWSGCPS3DynamoDBKinesisIAMCI/CDDevOpsDockerKubernetesLinuxRedisMySQLRabbitMQElasticsearchObservabilityMetricsLogging

Company Brief

Pindrop
Provides voice security and fraud prevention solutions that analyze phone calls and voice interactions to detect fraud, authenticate callers, and protect contact centers using voice biometrics, machine learning, and risk-scoring telemetry.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Atlanta, United States
Founded: 2011
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