Latent Defense
Staff Software Engineer
$240K–$250K
New York City · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
About the job
Own customer deployments and help harden, scale, and prepare Latent Defense’s infrastructure and telemetry platform for general availability.
What you'll do
- Deploy the product into customer infrastructure, including Kubernetes and Docker environments.
- Build and harden telemetry, and redesign infrastructure and backend systems for reliability and scale.
- Drive ambiguous infrastructure work autonomously and partner with engineering leadership and teammates on architecture and technical direction.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with infrastructure/backend depth.
- Fluency with TypeScript, Python, and Postgres.
- Experience deploying and supporting software in customer-owned infrastructure.
- Track record of redesigning or hardening systems as they scale.
Nice to have
- Experience at a seed-stage startup; founder experience is a strong plus.
- Cybersecurity or security-adjacent experience; telemetry, observability, hardening, agent orchestration, MCP-style protocols, or BYOC/on-prem deployment experience.
Pay
up to $240,000-$250,000 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, MCP
AI focus
Use AI coding agents fluently as a core part of the workflow, applying engineering judgment about when to trust them. The company’s product also orchestrates agents to validate attack paths and remediate confirmed vulnerabilities.
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