Staff AI Agent Engineer, strongDM

$160-300k

+ Equity salary packages

AWS

GCP

C++

Rust

Azure

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

Manages auditable database access

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Manages auditable database access

101-200 employees

B2BData storageInternal toolsSaaSCyber Security

Be an early applicant

$160-300k

+ Equity salary packages

AWS

GCP

C++

Rust

Azure

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

101-200 employees

B2BData storageInternal toolsSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

To simplify infrastructure access by helping companies manage and audit access to their databases, servers, clusters, and web applications.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Authentic conviction that AI systems can improve outcomes for ourselves and our customers
7+ years of experience developing distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), preferably serving enterprise customers
Strong systems background in operating systems, distributed architectures, networking, concurrency, and database fundamentals
Expert command of Go, Rust, C, C++, or similar languages with an emphasis on high-performance, secure, systems-level programming
Demonstrated experience with agentic AI systems leveraging advanced large language models (LLMs)
An AI-first approach, using modern AI tools to enhance software engineering practices, research, and product innovation
Exceptional problem-solving skills, proven leadership qualities, and strong communication capabilities

Desirable

Experience in training custom AI models or implementing novel AI frameworks
Background in cybersecurity, networking, or enterprise-scale permission systems

What the job involves

Join our newly-formed AI Agent team to help our global customers secure their most critical systems. Work directly with our co-founder & CTO on the leading edge of this technology wave
Design and implement a highly concurrent, scalable, and performant distributed system powering our AI agents
Build and enhance secure networking protocols, real-time permissions systems, APIs, SDKs, and auditing solutions to meet demanding enterprise security standards
Continuously explore, integrate, and innovate using cutting-edge AI models and frameworks to enhance system intelligence and reliability

Our take

With cyber threats becoming increasingly common over the last decade, securing access permissions within data infrastructures is essential to enterprise survival. However, managing this task can be expensive and complicated, leading some small businesses to combine various budget open-source data services which results in insecure and convoluted infrastructures.

strongDM provides a tool for managing permissions and access within data infrastructures, achieved by ensuring information is siloed to prevent one person from accessing all parts of the infrastructure. In addition to providing these modular security features, the company also makes it easier for technical staff to access the information that they need based on one-click identity checks.

Whilst plenty of data infrastructure tools already exist with the purpose of securing permission, strongDM have made the smart move of integrating their siloed approach to auditable permissions whilst making access easier for those with permission. The company claims that its service guarantees frictionless and auditable data infrastructure by also automating access logging and data capturing across entire IT stacks. Its 2024 funding round will be used to expand its operations into the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. It's also setting up an engineering center of excellence in Poland.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-28% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

May 2024

$34m

SERIES C

Sep 2021

$54m

SERIES B

Total funding: $110.1m

Company benefits

401k
3 months parental leave
Equity
HSA, FSA, short/long-term disability
3 weeks PTO + standard holidays
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

Downtown, Burlingame, CA

Leadership

Justin McCarthy

(CTO)

They worked extensively as a Software Engineer before joining CafePress.com as Engineering Manager. They were VP of Engineering at Rafter and CTO at Preact.

Schuyler Brown

(CCO)

They received an MBA from Columbia before working as Assistant to the President of Miramax. They were VP of Marketing at Nomi, and a Columnist at Inc. Magazine.

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