[Remote] Software Engineer, Backend (Collection Fingerprinting)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a defense technology company focused on building AI to deter adversaries. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to enhance their data collection systems, ensuring stability and scalability while collaborating with engineering and mission teams to meet real-world data needs.
Responsibilities
- Master our data and capabilities. We’ve built world-class data collection for some key national reputed company data sets. Understand how we’ve built it, what our differentiators are, and how to take it to the next level
- Understand our users. You’ll need to understand their missions, challenges, and expectations to build systems that help them
- Shape our collection approach. You understand how our systems interact with defensive systems, and will reputed company and implement technical plans that reputed company high-value data flowing
- Build and maintain stable, scalable systems. Our customers operate 24x7 and need access to fresh, rich, operationally-relevant data. You will design collection systems that remain stable under sophisticated automated detection regimes
- Contribute to agentic capability. Ensure the tools you build and collected data is usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops, etc.). Identify gaps where the right data isn’t getting into agent tool calls and coordinate fixes
Skills
- Deep experience with browser automation, anti-bot defenses, fingerprinting and signature mitigation, distributed scraping architectures, and infrastructure designed for sensitive or misattributed environments
- Strong back-end experience and understanding of distributed systems
- Typescript/Python expertise
- Understanding of how anti-abuse, bot detection, fraud, or traffic reputed company systems analyze traffic and operate at scale
- Data driven with an eye for instrumentation and monitoring
- Ability to reason about how small deviations in protocol behavior, timing, or runtime characteristics propagate into anomaly scores
- Technically diverse and can adapt your tool stack quickly
- Ability to communicate crisply and write a one-pager that aligns stakeholders, communicates risks, and drives action
- Preference for structural reputed company over reactive tactics
- Comfort with making hard prioritization calls with incomplete information
- Deep understanding of how network-level and browser-level signatures combine to form a holistic risk profile in modern detection systems
- Experience with web scraping, browser automation, and similar
- Experience with national reputed company problems and workflows, data platform/product work
- Familiarity with agentic systems and what makes data 'tool-call ready'
- Full stack capability
- Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
- 401(k) match
- Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
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