Senior Software Engineer (Platform Core)

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. The Senior Software Engineer on Platform Core will own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services, designing, operating, and improving distributed systems that support customer interactions and shared platform reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs that support high-volume customer interactions
• Take end-to-end ownership of platform work, from framing ambiguous problems and shaping technical plans through implementation, rollout, and production support
• Improve reliability, scalability, latency, and cost across shared platform systems that serve teams across the business
• Partner closely with Product, SRE, and peer engineering teams to deliver platform improvements without destabilizing live traffic
• Participate in on-call, incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, and capacity planning
• Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, and mentorship for other engineers on the team

Requirements:

• 5-7+ years of experience building backend services and APIs in production, or equivalent practical depth
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Go
• Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP using Kubernetes and Docker
• Proven production ownership, including deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and participating in on-call for high-scale services
• Strong experience with data and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL or Aurora, Redis, and RabbitMQ, along with the ability to reason about reliability, performance, and scale tradeoffs
• Experience with Redshift, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, or IAM
• Experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform
• Strong observability habits across metrics, logs, and traces
• Experience scaling or migrating databases, including read replicas, cluster mode, or engine migrations