Software Engineer - Full Stack

Location: Bengaluru Job type: Full-time Role: Engineering, Full stack Visa: US citizen/visa only

About the role

Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform that helps enterprise organizations reduce risk, improve security operation efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies and multiple Fortune 500 organizations across various industries leverage Ambient.ai to unify their security infrastructure and significantly enhance their security posture. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to monitor and detect threats continuously in real-time. Ambient.ai does this while simultaneously decreasing false alarms by over 95%, allowing security teams to focus on legitimate threats. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less and prevent security incidents before they happen. Founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna, experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford University who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. The company is Series-B funded by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Allegion Ventures, SV Angel, Y Combinator, and investment angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil. Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021, 2022, 2023, and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020.

The impact you'll make:

• 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
• 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

The amazing skills you'll bring to Ambient.ai:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background
• At least 4+ years of experience building scalable and available web services
• Strong experience working with at least one Object-oriented Programming Language like Python
• Experience with Django and React.js required
• Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, 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 cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ or similar tools/technologies highly preferred
• Experience building SaaS product offerings is a huge advantage

Why join us:

• Creating an entirely new category within a $180+ billion physical security industry with a mission to prevent every security incident possible
• Impressive customer roster including Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, VMware, SentinelOne
• Regular full-time employees receive stock options for ownership opportunity in company success
• Generous time off including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s depending on customer demand)
• Latest tech and awesome swag delivered to your door
• Full range of opportunities to connect with co-workers

Ambient.ai is an Equal Opportunity Employer. They do not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color,...