Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

<h3>About the Role</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Join a lean, high-caliber core engineering team at a fast-growing AI-first startup in the <strong>physical security and critical event management</strong> space. The platform leverages agentic AI to monitor real-time threat signals — including 911 radio dispatch and social media OSINT — delivering verified, actionable alerts to enterprise security operations teams in seconds. Customers include Fortune 50 retailers, major utilities, and leading autonomous-vehicle companies.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The company was founded by public-safety technology veterans, is backed by top-tier seed investors, and has crossed strong early revenue milestones with impressive customer retention. The core engineering team is small and intentional — this is a meaningful, high-ownership role.</p><h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own core platform functionality end-to-end, from idea through production and polish</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and build backend systems that power real-time threat intelligence ingestion, processing, and alerting</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop and iterate on AI pipelines and agentic workflows</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build user-configured workflow systems that enable security operations teams to act quickly and precisely</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate closely with a small, senior core team to ship features the industry hasn't seen before</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Flex across engineering specialties as needed in an early-stage environment</p></li></ul><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Required:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Senior or Staff level backend engineering experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>0→1 ownership experience</strong> — you've taken a large project or product feature from idea to polished delivery, end-to-end</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Demonstrated ability to dive into different areas of engineering (flexibility is key on a lean team)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Based in the <strong>United States</strong></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice to Have:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building user-configured workflow or automation systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building AI pipelines or working with agentic systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Early-stage startup experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Eye for product design and UX</p></li></ul><h3>Compensation &amp; Benefits</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Salary:</strong> $180,000 – $205,000 annually</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Visa sponsorship available</p></li></ul><h3>Location</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Fully remote</strong> — open to candidates anywhere in the United States</p></li></ul><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>