Software Engineer, Reality Defender
$140-180k
Offers equity and bonus
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
Be an early applicant
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-180k
Offers equity and bonus
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has strong C#/.NET experience, understands Windows application development, and has hands-on experience with low-latency media streaming and Kubernetes-based deployments
- Approximately 3–5 years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency with C#, .NET, and asynchronous or concurrent programming
- Professional experience developing software for Windows
- Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time audio streaming systems
- Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time video streaming systems
- Production experience deploying and operating containerized applications with Kubernetes
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads, networking, configuration, resource usage, scaling, and application failures
- Understanding of real-time media concepts such as codecs, frame and sample formats, buffering, latency, synchronization, and network transport
- Experience integrating with REST APIs, SDKs, and event-driven systems
- Familiarity with multithreading, memory management, performance profiling, and debugging
- Experience with Git, automated testing, and modern CI/CD practices
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Experience developing Microsoft Teams apps, bots, calling solutions, or meeting integrations
- Familiarity with Microsoft Graph, Azure Bot Service, Teams SDKs, or related Microsoft communications APIs
- Familiarity with COM and COM interoperability from .NET
- Experience with WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, SRTP, SIP, FFmpeg, GStreamer, or Media Foundation
- Experience with Azure services, Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, and application permissions
- Knowledge of Windows audio/video APIs, device capture, or virtual media devices
- Experience with Helm, Kubernetes operators, ingress controllers, and observability platforms
- Experience operating real-time communications software in production
What the job involves
- We are seeking a mid-level Windows and .NET developer to build and maintain Microsoft Teams bot applications with real-time audio and video capabilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Microsoft Teams bot applications and integrations
- Build real-time audio and video streaming features focused on low latency, reliability, and media quality
- Develop Windows-based services and applications using C# and .NET
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications in Kubernetes
- Integrate with Microsoft APIs, SDKs, authentication systems, and cloud services
- Diagnose media issues involving codecs, synchronization, buffering, packet loss, and network conditions
- Create automated tests and participate in code reviews
- Troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and media diagnostics
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate requirements into maintainable solutions
- Produce clear technical and operational documentation
- Within 6 months, you’ll…
- Contribute production-ready features to the Teams bot application
- Independently diagnose and resolve common audio/video streaming problems
- Deploy and troubleshoot the application in Kubernetes environments
- Improve the reliability, test coverage, scalability, and observability of the media pipeline
Our take
Reality Defender was born out of The AI Foundation to help protect the 2020 US Elections from the threat of deepfakes. It officially launched as a company in 2021, based in New York. Today there continues to be a genuine issue where the public cannot decipher what is true or false online due to the existence of easily-created deepfakes.
Reality Defender's platform empowers enterprises to highlight and flag fraudulent users and content found online. Its API and app also provide risk scoring, reporting, and forensics review.
Reality Defender was selected as part of Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, the same backing received by Monzo, Airbnb and Stripe in their early days. This backing, paired with the founding team’s experience of over twenty years at Google, Goldman Sachs, and the Intelligence Community, as well as its 2023 award win, has worked well for this early-stage startup.
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Company benefits
- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
Company HQ
Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Gaurav Bharaj
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Previously the Chief Science Officer at Flawless, the Vice President of Research for The AI Foundation and a Senior Researcher for Technicolor.
Ali Shahriyari
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Previously acted as the Director of Product for The AI Foundation and as a Vice President for Originate.
Ben Colman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded PlaceAVote. Previously acted as NYC Lead for Xoogler.co, CEO for Convertix, and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.
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