Ambient.aiSoftware Engineer, Fullstack
Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time.
Ambient.ai is the leading agentic physical security platform built to prevent incidents and modernize physical security operations. Our products help the world’s leading enterprises reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies, along with multiple Fortune 500 organizations, rely on Ambient.ai to protect their people, places and assets.
Our platform uses state-of-the-art AI to seamlessly integrate with existing camera and sensor systems, enabling real-time monitoring and proactive threat detection. By reducing false alarms by over 95%, Ambient.ai allows security teams to focus on real threats and prevent incidents before they occur.
Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is a Series B company on a mission to make every security incident preventable.
We’ve found that in-person time meaningfully supports collaboration, creativity, and team alignment. Our talent, engineering, product, design, and marketing teams work from our Redwood City office three days a week. All other Bay Area employees join on Fridays to stay connected and close out the week together.
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About the role:
We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale the core systems that power Ambient.ai’s real-time AI security platform. In this role, you’ll work on software that ingests, processes, and interprets massive volumes of video and event data in real time - transforming raw signals into actionable intelligence for some of the world’s largest enterprises.
You can expect to regularly take on technically challenging problems in a fast-moving, collaborative environment and to see your work deployed in mission-critical customer environments.
What you'll do:
Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints
Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive, fault-tolerant microservices
Core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data
Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of all backend services
Develop large-size platform problems and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end
You will work as an important member of the platform team that owns one or more services/product features, end-to-end
Expect to be challenged and stretch your skills regularly.
What you'll bring:
BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background
At least 3+ years of experience building scalable and available web services.
Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages, like Python, Django, and React.js, would be required
Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems
Write clean and maintainable code
Design and implement complex systems including communication between several services (pub-sub paradigm, microservices architecture)
Manage service reliability, including any cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud)
Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar tools/technologies will be highly preferred
Experience building SaaS product offerings will be a huge advantage.
Why join us:
We are creating an entirely new category within a 120+ billion-dollar physical security industry and looking for team members who are also passionate about our mission to prevent every security incident possible
We have an impressive customer roster of F500 companies, including Adobe, VMware, and SentinelOne
Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of our company
We offer flexible time off to rest and recharge, including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s for most roles, depending on customer demand)
The latest tech and awesome swag will be delivered to your door
Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers
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