Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform that helps enterprise organizations reduce risk, improve security operation efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies and multiple Fortune 500 organizations across various industries leverage Ambient.ai to unify their security infrastructure and significantly enhance their security posture.

The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to monitor and detect threats continuously in real-time. Ambient.ai does this while simultaneously decreasing false alarms by over 95%, allowing security teams to focus on legitimate threats. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less and prevent security incidents before they happen.

We were founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna, experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford University who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. We are a Series-B company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Allegion Ventures, SV Angel, Y Combinator, and investment angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil.

Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021, 2022, 2023, and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020, we are turning the impossible into the inevitable. We always seek passionate people who enjoy solving the most challenging problems with cutting-edge AI/ML.

Position Overview:

You'll be pivotal in designing and implementing advanced REST and GraphQL endpoints and creating robust, fault-tolerant microservices for handling large-scale video streaming data. Your role involves enhancing backend services' performance, reliability, and scalability while also taking ownership of platform features from conception to deployment. This position offers the opportunity to regularly stretch your skills, working as a key member of a dynamic team dedicated to innovating in the field of web services and cloud technology.

The impact you'll make:

• 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

• You will work as an essential 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

The amazing skills you'll bring to Ambient.ai:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background

• At least 3+ years of experience building highly distributed, scalable and available web services

• Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages like Python and C++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 180+ 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 Linkedin

• Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of our company 

• Comprehensive health + welfare package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, Legal Services, 401k plan)

• 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 delivered to your door

• Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers

• We love to hike, are foodies, and love music! Check out our most recent Ambient Spotify Playlist

We take a market-based approach to pay here at Ambient.ai, and pay may vary depending on multiple factors. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, level, market conditions, and internal parity. 

Base salary is just one component of our total rewards package. As a fast-growing start-up, our regular employees are also granted stock options, and an opportunity to succeed when Ambient.ai succeeds.  As a young start-up with product market fit, our stock upside is substantial, and a large part of our total rewards strategy. 

The pay scale below represents the starting base salary range we expect to pay for this position, and is subject to change*: 

SF Bay Area: $132,000 - $160,000

*From time to time, we may decide to make an offer to a candidate that is either leveled below or above this role based on skills, experience, and interview performance.  

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.