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Our customers include government organizations and Fortune 100 companies.\nWe operate our own fine-tuned model, voice synthesis, and self-hosted phone infrastructure. We are extending the platform into post-click compromise and downstream access testing, helping security teams establish what access an attack enables, which defenses intervene, and whether a fix holds when tested again.\nOur founder previously led BlackRock’s red team and worked in offensive cyber operations at MITRE. The engineering work draws on that experience, with problems spanning real-time communication, controlled execution, and reliable evidence collection.\nThe role\nYou will build the backend services that turn our existing capabilities into complete product workflows. This includes coordinating calls and messages, managing campaign execution, connecting services, and making results available to the product.\nYou will work closely with product and frontend engineers to define service behavior, resolve integration issues, and carry projects through to production. You should be comfortable explaining how a system works, where it can fail, and how you would investigate it.\nWhat you will work on\nBackend workflows connecting campaign configuration, scheduling, execution, and results.\nPhone and SMS systems, including routing, delivery status, recording, and provider integrations.\nState management, cancellation, retries, and recovery for long-running operations.\nEvent processing that handles duplicate, delayed, and out-of-order events.\nServices for scoped account, session, and downstream access checks.\nAuthorization, tenant isolation, AWS deployments, and operational monitoring.\nLatency and failure handling across model responses, speech generation, and call delivery.\nYour first 90 days\nFirst 30 days: Understand the execution path and ship a backend workflow\nTrace a campaign from its initial API request through execution and reporting. Work with the team to select and ship a scoped backend flow using existing services. Document its dependencies, failure behavior, and remaining limitations.\nBy 60 days: Own a workflow across services\nTake responsibility for a larger execution flow, including its service contracts, state transitions, and integrations. Verify cancellation, retries, uncertain provider responses, and status reporting. Add the tests and monitoring needed to operate it.\nBy 90 days: Carry a product initiative through to production\nOwn backend delivery for a complete customer workflow. Help product and frontend engineers understand what is ready, what remains unfinished, and which decisions are blocking release. 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