At Protegrity, we lead innovation by using AI and quantum-resistant cryptography to transform data protection across cloud-native, hybrid, on-premises, and open source environments. We leverage advanced cryptographic methods such as tokenization, format-preserving encryption, and quantum-resilient techniques to protect sensitive data. As a global leader in data security, our mission is to ensure that data isn’t just valuable but also usable, trusted, and safe.
Protegrity offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of innovation and collaboration, with the ability to make a meaningful impact on the industry while working alongside some of the brightest minds. Together, we are redefining how the world safeguards data, enabling organizations to thrive in a GenAI era where data is the ultimate currency. If you're ready to shape the future of data security, Protegrity is the place for you.
Role Overview
We are seeking a senior software engineer with experience in backend API development, deployment on Kubernetes, familiarity with Generative AI (GenAI) application backend engineering.
This role offers the opportunity to be hands-on and build enterprise-grade capabilities that enable the safe, secure, and private consumption of GenAI by customers, as Protegrity accelerates its AI-driven strategy at a pivotal moment in the market.
What You’ll Do
- Develop, test, and maintain Python based backend applications running on Kubernetes
- Integrate GenAI systems including LLM, VectorDB, RAG pipelines, agents, and guardrails into our product features.
- Support GenAI team's platform infrastructure for experimentation and evaluations
- Collaborate closely with other software engineers, product teams, AI researchers, and security specialists to deliver enterprise-grade software products and features for safe, secure, and private consumption of GenAI.
What You’ll Need
- 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering with experience productionizing agentic harnesses
- Experience building and shipping customer-facing Kubernetes-based software platforms, including Helm charts, infrastructure automation, and deployment tooling.
- Expertise developing REST APIs across services in Kubernetes
- Familiarity with version control tools, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience integrating and managing LLMs and prompt tracing platforms
- Experience integrating databases into backend systems, including vector databases
- Experience with integrating software products using authentication and authorization including cloud IAM, SSO, JWT, oAuth, etc.
- Strong skills cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
Should you accept this position, you will be required to consent to and successfully complete a background investigation. This may include, subject to local laws, verification of extended education and additional criminal and civil checks.
We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits with generous vacation and holiday time off. All employees are also provided access to ongoing learning & development.
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