TENEX.AI
Staff Software Engineer
San Jose, CA +3 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA
Sarasota, FL HQ
Remote, USA
Kansas City, MO SOC - Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership in designing and scaling complex systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Drive the technical vision and hands-on development of TENEX.AI’s secure, scalable cybersecurity platform, leading architecture, engineering decisions, and team mentorship.
What you'll do
- Own architecture and lead development of distributed backend systems, APIs, integrations, and cross-stack capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, design, and leadership on technical direction and roadmaps.
- Improve reliability, observability, performance, code quality, testing, and maintainability.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership in designing and scaling complex systems.
- Strong software engineering foundation and distributed systems knowledge; expertise in a backend language such as Go, Python, or equivalent.
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, TypeScript, or similar), relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor engineers.
Nice to have
- Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AI/ML concepts or technologies, or early-stage startup experience.
- GCP certifications such as Professional Cloud Developer or Professional Data Engineer.
Tools
Go, Python, React, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GCP
AI focus
Bring innovative AI and automation approaches into the platform; exposure to AI/ML, including Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), or Vector Databases, is a plus.
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