Software Engineer, Fullstack

Ambient.ai is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join their platform team, focusing on building and scaling core systems for their real-time AI security platform. This role involves ingesting, processing, and interpreting massive volumes of video and event data to transform raw signals into actionable intelligence for large enterprises. The engineer will tackle technically challenging problems in a fast-moving, collaborative environment, deploying solutions in mission-critical customer environments.

Must Have

• Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints.
• Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive, fault-tolerant microservices.
• Develop core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of all backend services.
• Develop large-size platform problems and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end.
• Work as an important member of the platform team, owning services/product features end-to-end.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background.
• At least 3+ years of experience building scalable and available web services.
• Strong experience with Object-oriented Programming Languages, Python, Django, and React.js.
• Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres).
• Expertise in streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems.
• Ability to write clean and maintainable code.
• Design and implement complex systems including microservices architecture.
• Manage service reliability, including cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud).

Good to Have

• Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar tools/technologies.
• Experience building SaaS product offerings.

Perks & Benefits

• Stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the company's success.
• Flexible time off to rest and recharge, including Winter Break.
• Latest tech and awesome swag delivered to your door.
• Opportunities to connect with co-workers.

Location

Redwood City

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• $150K – $210K • Offers Equity

At Ambient.ai, we take a market-based approach to compensation. Final offers are based on job-related skills, experience, location, and internal equity.

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package, including stock options and the opportunity to share in the company’s growth.

Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time.

Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform helping the world’s leading enterprises reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies, along with multiple Fortune 500 organizations, rely on Ambient.ai to modernize their physical security infrastructure.

Our platform uses advanced AI and computer vision to seamlessly integrate with existing camera and sensor systems, enabling real-time monitoring and proactive threat detection. By reducing false alarms by over 95%, Ambient.ai allows security teams to focus on real threats and prevent incidents before they occur.

Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is a Series B company on a mission to make every security incident preventable.

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About the role:

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale the core systems that power Ambient.ai’s real-time AI security platform. In this role, you’ll work on software that ingests, processes, and interprets massive volumes of video and event data in real time - transforming raw signals into actionable intelligence for some of the world’s largest enterprises.

You can expect to regularly take on technically challenging problems in a fast-moving, collaborative environment and to see your work deployed in mission-critical customer environments.

What you'll do:

• Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints
• Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive, fault-tolerant microservices
• Core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of all backend services
• Develop large-size platform problems and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end
• You will work as an important member of the platform team that owns one or more services/product features, end-to-end
• Expect to be challenged and stretch your skills regularly.

What you'll bring:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background
• At least 3+ years of experience building scalable and available web services.
• Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages, like Python, Django, and React.js, would be required
• Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems
• Write clean and maintainable code
• Design and implement complex systems including communication between several services (pub-sub paradigm, microservices architecture)
• Manage service reliability, including any cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar tools/technologies will be highly preferred
• Experience building SaaS product offerings will be a huge advantage.

Why join us:

• We are creating an entirely new category within a 120+ billion-dollar physical security industry and looking for team members who are also passionate about our mission to prevent every security incident possible
• We have an impressive customer roster of F500 companies, including Adobe, VMware, and SentinelOne
• Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of our company
• We offer flexible time off to rest and recharge, including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s for most roles, depending on customer demand)
• The latest tech and awesome swag will be delivered to your door
• Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers
• We love to hike

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Ambient.ai is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ambient does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. Ambient is an E-Verify participant.

Compensation Range: $150K - $210K

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