Staff Software Engineer - AI Security (San Francisco)
Company: Lakera AG
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 2, 2024
Job Description:
We're on the lookout for the first few senior engineers to begin
the build out of our San Francisco engineering hub. As a Staff
Software Engineer you'll make a significant impact at a rapidly
growing startup.You will be hands-on across all aspects of Lakera's
self-hosted and SaaS applications from defining our devops
workflows to scaling our SaaS fleet.About LakeraLakera is on a
mission to secure the era of intelligent computing. We are heading
towards a future where AI-powered applications take center stage.
Here at Lakera, we're not just dreaming about the future; we're
building the security foundation for it. We empower builders,
giving them the confidence to navigate this new dynamic landscape
and unleash the next phase of innovation.We work with Fortune 500
companies, startups, and foundation model providers to protect them
and their users from adversarial misalignment. We are also the
company behind , the world's most popular AI security game. If
you're eager to be part of a team that's not just keeping pace but
setting the pace, Lakera is the right place for you. Let's shape
the future together.What You'll Do
- As a technical leader you will directly contribute code,
processes, and technical direction to Lakera products by bringing
your experiences and knowledge to the team.
- You will use your years of hard lessons learned while working
on existing and new SaaS products, self-hosted products, internal
ML tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and more.
- You will augment existing components and design/implement new
components of our core Lakera Guard product stack.
- You will be using your past experiences working in AWS and
other hyperscalers to design and implement services for our SaaS
product.
- You will be diving deep into our most complex problems,
providing scalable solutions, iterative implementation plans, and
drive the code to make it a reality.
- You will help guide MVP feature sets, iterative releases, and
refactoring for multiple 10X growth scenarios.
- You will design systems, write code, review code, fix bugs in
the small and large, mentor other engineers, draft documentation,
participate in on-call rotations, and wear many other hats as
needed in a startup environment.What You'll Bring
- 8+ years of commercial software development experience.
- Deep hands-on coding experience building scalable distributed
computing application stacks; Docker/Kubernetes, AWS/GCP,
databases, messages busses.
- Practical experience building monitoring and observability into
your systems; Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, logs, metrics,
tracing.
- A strong understanding of productizing modern Python including
type checking, testing, and application frameworks. Experience with
accelerated ML frameworks is a plus.
- A comfort level enhancing CI/CD pipelines with experience
balancing coverage, complexity, and time to deploy.
- Demonstrable experience developing clean, user friendly, and
forward looking REST/gRPC APIs.
- A pragmatic approach to software engineering having worked in a
startup or within a startup project as part of a larger
organization.
- Lessons learned from personally leading technical initiatives
including technology selection, engineering documentation, and time
to market trade-offs.
- A willingness and desire to mentor, help hire, and build a
collaborative culture.
- A passion for building great software systems, especially in a
startup environment where we need to move very quickly.Location:
San Francisco.Logistics: Hybrid. We're excited about candidates who
want to contribute to our in-office culture.Deadline to apply:
None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.Compensation
and Benefits: Our total compensation package is a blend of salary,
equity and benefits.We are committed to paying fairly and aim for
these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with
market rates. Equity - On top of this position's compensation,
equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim
to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of
our size and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer
issuance.Benefits:
- Equity package.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401k plan with employer matching.
- Paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Health, wellness, and commuter benefits. Let's stay connected!
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