Senior ML Platform Backend Engineer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

Nightfall AI is seeking a Senior ML Platform Backend Engineer to join their growing team. The role involves driving execution, providing technical expertise, and contributing to the platform's long-term architecture. The engineer will be responsible for hands-on technical design and coding, shaping the architecture of the AI Detection platform, and implementing best practices in a fast-paced environment. The platform focuses on preventing data leaks and enabling secure collaboration by protecting sensitive data and controlling how it's shared. The company leverages AI to achieve twice the accuracy with a fraction of the false positives that overwhelm security teams, without disrupting modern work patterns.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of hands-on technical development experience
  • 3+ years of experience mentoring and leading engineering teams
  • Experience programming in Python, Go, Java, C++, or a related language
  • Expertise in building machine models for real-time production environments
  • Experience with machine model inferencing for low latency and high throughput
  • Experience with ML Ops frameworks
  • Foundational understanding of scaling and data structures
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
Good to have:
  • Experience working in high-growth venture-backed startups
  • Experience training and deploying NLP-based machine models or LLMs
  • Blog, teach, mentor, or help others learn outside of your responsibilities
  • Familiarity with AWS and managed infrastructure
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Redis, KV-stores

Job Details

Nightfall AI (www.nightfall.ai) is the unified platform that prevents data leaks and enables secure collaboration by protecting sensitive data and controlling how it's shared. For decades, legacy data leak prevention (DLP) solutions have failed to adequately protect sensitive information. Traditional DLP is outdated, intrusive, and complex - it wasn't designed for today's modern enterprise where users continuously share data across interconnected SaaS applications, endpoints, and now generative AI. Nightfall AI is the first AI-native DLP solution. We leverage AI to achieve twice the accuracy with a fraction of the false positives that overwhelm security teams. Nightfall does this without disrupting modern work patterns. Our AI-native platform spans sensitive data protection across SaaS, email, data exfiltration prevention on SaaS, endpoints, and data encryption. Nightfall's Developer Platform provides an open, flexible environment for developers to integrate our data classification and protection capabilities anywhere, including establishing trust boundaries for AI model building and consumption.

We are looking for an exceptional engineering technical leader to join our growing team at Nightfall. As a senior, hands-on, technical engineer in the Engineering organization, you will drive execution, provide solid technical expertise, raise the engineering bar of the team, and contribute towards shaping the long-term architecture of the platform.

This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

  • Drive great execution, work with the team to set clear goals, and deliver against them
  • Hands-on, technical design and coding
  • Help shape the architecture of the AI Detection platform to enable the use of cutting edge ML technologies while ensuring it is scalable and reliable
  • Implement best of practices in a fast-paced engineering environment and champion a culture of engineering excellence and productivity

Requirements

  • Minimum 5+ years of hands-on technical development experience
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience mentoring and leading engineering teams
  • Experience programming in Python, Go, Java, C++ or related language
  • Expertise in building machine models for real-time production environments using a variety of Deep Learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TorchScript, Tensorflow, spaCy, etc.
  • Experience with machine model inferencing for use in low latency and high throughput, microservice environments
  • Experience with ML Ops frameworks such as Vertex AI, Sagemaker, etc. to automate data collection, training, deployment and monitoring
  • A foundational understanding of horizontal and vertical scaling, concurrency primitives, and data structures using Python, Go or other frameworks
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Bonus Points

  • Experience working in high growth venture-backed startups
  • Experience training and deploying NLP based machine models or LLMs is a big plus.
  • Blog, teach, mentor, or help others learn outside of your day to day responsibilities
  • Familiarity with AWS and  managed infrastructure
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Redis, KV-stores

About Nightfall:

Nightfall is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping organizations secure and manage their sensitive data. As a leading enterprise technology company, our product affects the personal data that people entrust businesses to store & process with care every day. Critical data in modern organizations is often sprayed across a broad set of cloud data silos, and it’s a herculean task for security & compliance teams to monitor, manage, and protect this highly sensitive data. Via machine learning, our product makes it easy for organizations to discover, classify, and protect this sensitive data across their cloud footprint - such as their corporate SaaS, data infrastructure, and even their own apps. In doing so, we prevent data leakage, provide unprecedented data visibility & protection across the cloud, and enable compliance. We’re a technology startup founded in San Francisco, well-funded by leading institutional investors like Bain and Venrock, and a cadre of security & IT leaders from Okta, Salesforce, Atlassian, Splunk, FireEye, and more. Learn more on our website www.nightfall.ai or by reaching out via email at careers@nightfall.ai.

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About The Company

Nightfall AI is the leader in cloud data loss prevention (DLP) for generative AI (GenAI) tools, SaaS apps, and custom apps. Download our Chrome browser plugin or integrate via APIs to protect PII, PHI, PCI, secrets, and keys across apps like ChatGPT, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Google Drive, and more. After just a few minutes of installation, you’ll be equipped to stay secure and compliant wherever you are in the cloud—all while streamlining your security workload through real-time alerts, automated remediation actions, and pre-built detection templates.


Join hundreds of leading companies such as Oscar Health, Splunk, Exabeam, and more that trust Nightfall to protect their most sensitive data.

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