Staff Software Engineer, Nightfall AI

Salary not provided

Java

C++

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Cloud-native data protection platform

Open for applications

Cloud-native data protection platform

101-200 employees

B2BSecurityBig dataSaaSCyber Security

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Java

C++

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

101-200 employees

B2BSecurityBig dataSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

To empower enterprises big and small to navigate the digital world with confidence, while ensuring the security and privacy of their sensitive data.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Minimum 4+ years of hands-on technical development experience
Minimum 3+ years of experience mentoring and leading engineering teams
Experience running the day-to-day sprint process for an engineering team
Experience programming in Go, C++, Java or related language
Experience designing and building systems in a microservices-based architecture
A foundational understanding of multi-threaded programming, concurrency primitives, and data structures
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Desirable

Experience working in high growth venture-backed startups
Blog, teach, mentor, or help others learn outside of your day to day responsibilities
Familiarity with AWS and managed infrastructure
Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes

What the job involves

Drive great execution, work with the team to set clear goals, and deliver against them
Help to recruit, inspire, and develop a high performing and creative engineering team
Be both a hands-on coder and an effective people leader
Implement best practices in a fast-paced engineering environment
Champion engineering excellence and culture, establish metrics for regular improvement

Our take

Nightfall AI is tackling security challenges posed by the adoption of generative AI and technologies like GPT-4o. Businesses adopting these powerful AI models face extended concerns over sensitive data exposure, prompt injection attacks and model abuse.

Nightfall AI's firewall for I is a robust client wrapper safeguarding GENAI applications and data pipeline. it ensures security by proactively scanning and removing sensitive information like PII, PCI, PHI, and proprietary secrets. Additionally, it defends against prompt injection attacks, ensuring data integrity across diverse AI inputs.

With its AI-native detection engine and advanced DLP models, Nightfall proactively addresses future challenges in evolving AI technologies. By integrating into workflows, Nightfall enables organisations to deploy GenAI applications securely, ensuring compliance and driving innovation for enhanced customer experiences.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

53% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Aug 2022

$40m

SERIES B

Nov 2019

$20.3m

SERIES A

Total funding: $60.3m

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Articles

Nightfall AI targets modern enterprises with new data security solutions

Nightfall launches Firewall for AI to secure GPT-4o

Nightfall AI and Snyk Partner to Offer Developers AI-Powered Secrets Scanning

Leadership

Isaac Madan

(CEO)

Having studied at Stanford, Isaac co-founded Chalky in 2013 before working as a Correlation Ventures Tech Advisor and Analyst for Pejman Mar. They spent 2 years as a Venrock Investor before co-founding Nightfall AI in March 2018.

Rohan Sathe

(CTO)

Rohan started their career as a Voxer Software Engineer before being a Founding Engineer of UberEats, where they worked until 2017. In March 2018, they co-founded Nightfall AI with Isaac, serving as CTO.

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