Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SpyCloud is on a mission to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive AI innovation by exploring emerging technologies and turning successful prototypes into scalable capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Drive AI innovation across SpyCloud by identifying, evaluating, and applying emerging technologies in AI, agents, and knowledge systems
- Rapidly prototype new products, workflows, and capabilities to validate technical feasibility and business value
- Architect and build scalable AI systems that combine LLMs, graph technologies, proprietary intelligence, and cloud-native services
- Partner with product, engineering, data science, and executive leadership to transform successful prototypes into production-ready capabilities
- Develop reusable frameworks, tools, and reference architectures that enable teams across SpyCloud to leverage AI effectively
- Evaluate and benchmark emerging models, agent frameworks, and AI tooling, providing technical guidance on adoption and best practices
- Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy through hands-on leadership, clear communication, and cross-functional collaboration
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level
- Proven track record of independently driving ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from concept through adoption
- Deep hands-on experience building applications powered by LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and modern AI tooling
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype, iterate, and validate new ideas while maintaining strong engineering judgment
- Experience designing and operating large-scale graph databases or knowledge graph systems at scale (Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph, JanusGraph, or similar)
- Strong software engineering and systems design skills, including experience building distributed cloud-native applications, preferably in AWS
- Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable balancing exploratory innovation with production-quality engineering and long-term platform thinking
- Experience building cybersecurity, fraud detection, identity intelligence, or threat intelligence systems
- Experience with knowledge graphs, entity resolution, and large-scale relationship analytics
- Experience building developer platforms, internal frameworks, or shared infrastructure adopted across multiple teams
- Familiarity with AI evaluation, observability, benchmarking, and governance practices
- Experience working with large-scale data platforms containing billions of entities and relationships
Benefits
- 401(k) with Employer Contribution
- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) available with Employer Contribution
- Employer Paid Life, Short-term, and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Generous PTO Plan and 16 paid holidays per year
- Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
- Employer Provided Private Health Insurance and Healthcare Cashplan
- Employer Paid Life Insurance and Income Replacement
- Generous Holiday Plan and 14 paid holidays per year
- Flexible and remote-friendly work options
- Engaging workspace in South Austin
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