SpyCloud

The leader in operationalizing Cybercrime Analytics to prevent ATO, ransomware, and online fraud.

Principal Software Engineer – Next-Generation API, AI Platform Architecture

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Texas

Posted

16 days ago

Salary

Not specified

10 yrs expEnglishAWSDistributed SystemsPythonGo

Job Description

• Architect and implement customer-facing data and intelligence APIs with clear versioning, SLAs, and backward compatibility. • Define and enforce API contracts for: Low latency, high throughput endpoints; Agentic workflows (tools, actions, state transitions, handoffs); Context retrieval and enrichment. • Design APIs as durable platform interfaces, not thin wrappers over storage systems. • Establish standards for schema governance, payload design, and service boundaries. • Architect service layers that support agentic workflows, including orchestration interfaces, guardrails, and runtime observability. • Build API surfaces that expose model outputs safely and consistently. • Collaborate with MLEs and Data Scientists to move models from experimentation into robust inference services. • Ensure proper lifecycle management, monitoring, and rollback mechanisms for ML-powered endpoints. • Design and implement service layers that sit on top of the gold-layer system of record. • Build and evolve context hubs derived from authoritative systems of record, enabling consistent entity, identity, or risk context for downstream services. • Ensure APIs are aligned with medallion architecture principles and platform data contracts. • Prevent fragmentation by maintaining strong coupling to canonical schemas and governed data models. • Design high-throughput, low-latency services supporting batch and streaming workloads. • Implement scalable infrastructure patterns on AWS. • Ensure strong observability, error handling, performance tuning, and cost awareness. • Drive infrastructure-as-code practices and production readiness standards. • Serve as a senior architectural voice in design reviews. • Raise the bar on code quality, system design, and operational rigor. • Mentor engineers on API design, distributed systems, and ML integration patterns. • Influence platform direction through technical depth rather than organizational authority.

Job Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, APIs, or large-scale data platforms.
  • Deep experience designing and implementing customer-facing APIs as long-lived products.
  • Strong understanding of schema governance, versioning strategies, and contract design.
  • Experience productionizing ML models and exposing inference services.
  • Experience designing or integrating agentic or autonomous workflows.
  • Experience building service layers on top of systems of record or semantic data layers.
  • Strong background in distributed systems reliability, observability, and scalability.
  • Proficiency in Go & Python (and/or backend service languages).
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks/Snowflake
  • Strong experience with AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools

Benefits

  • 401(k) with Employer Contribution
  • Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) available with Employer Contribution
  • Employer Paid Life, Short-term, and Long-term Disability Insurance
  • Generous PTO Plan and 16 paid holidays per year
  • Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
  • Employer Provided Private Health Insurance and Healthcare Cashplan
  • Employer Paid Life Insurance and Income Replacement
  • Generous Holiday Plan and 14 paid holidays per year

Related Job Pages

More Backend Engineer Jobs

Full TimeRemoteTeam 10,001+Since 2020H1B No Sponsor

Application Developer designing and developing technical solutions for defense systems

AngularBootstrapJavaJavaScriptjQueryJUnitMariaDBMySQLOracleSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLTypeScript
Arizona
$86.8K - $165.2K / year

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Streaming Infrastructure

Affirm

We create honest financial products that improve lives.

Backend Engineer16 days ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B Sponsor

Senior Software Engineer developing backend streaming infrastructure at Affirm

AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSpark
United States
$169K - $240K / year

Staff Backend Engineer

ClickUp

The world's most productive AI Workspace for projects, tasks, chat, docs, and more. All software and humans - converged.

Backend Engineer16 days ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2017

Staff Backend Engineer developing core services for ClickUp's productivity platform

DockerJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsNoSQLPostgreSQLSQL
United States
$200K - $250K / year

Staff Backend Engineer, Search

ClickUp

The world's most productive AI Workspace for projects, tasks, chat, docs, and more. All software and humans - converged.

Backend Engineer16 days ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2017

Staff Engineer optimizing search for AI-powered productivity platform

ElasticSearchTypeScript
United States
$250K - $300K / year