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Powered by the Pindrop Intelligence Network, our unified trust platform helps enterprises answer three critical questions:\nIs this identity synthetic? Detect AI-generated and manipulated voice and video.\nIs this identity risky? Identify fraud, suspicious behavior, and other risk signals.\nIs this identity known? Authenticate identities using voice, device, behavioral, and other signals.\nPindrop brings this intelligence together across purpose-built trust engines to help organizations make informed decisions in real time - protecting customers, workforce interactions, and emerging AI-driven interactions.\nPindrop protects billions of high-risk interactions for enterprises, including leading financial institutions, insurers, and healthcare organizations. Its technology is informed by more than 8 billion real-world interactions annually and protected by 300+ patents.\nRecognized by TIME as one of the 10 Most Influential Software Companies of 2026 and by Inc. for Best in Business for Innovation, Pindrop is backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG.\nWhat you'll do\nAs a Senior Software Engineer on the Authentication team, you will help build and scale the cloud services behind Passport as the team continues moving customers onto its cloud platform. You’ll focus on highly reliable, secure authentication services that power voice-based identity verification at scale, while increasingly leveraging AI/ML-driven signals and tooling to strengthen fraud defenses and engineering productivity. More specifically, you will:\nDesign, develop, test, deploy, and monitor high-performance backend services and APIs using Go and Python, with an emphasis on secure, low-latency authentication and identity workflows. \nBuild and maintain cloud-native services across AWS and GCP (e.g., S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, IAM) with a focus on reliability, scale, and secure production operation, including data pipelines that feed downstream ML and risk models used in authentication decisions. \nDeliver features and enhancements through the full software development lifecycle, including implementation, automated testing, deployment, and operational support, using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices. \nTackle complex software engineering problems in authentication, identity, and fraud prevention-contributing to architecture decisions, threat-aware design, and continuous improvement of engineering best practices across the team. \nIntegrate and consume AI/ML capabilities (for example, model-backed risk scores, deepfake detection signals, or ML-driven policies) by collaborating with Research, MLOps, and Protect/Passport teams, and help productionize these models into scalable, observable services. \nUse observability and diagnostics tooling (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards) to troubleshoot production issues, reduce alert noise, and systematically improve reliability and latency for authentication journeys. \nPartner closely with software engineering, test engineering, research, product, Protect, Passport, and Core teams to deliver new capabilities and improve existing ones, including AI-enhanced identity and fraud experiences for customers. \nParticipate in the team’s on-call rotation, including helping cover after-hours alerts as we expand distributed support coverage for our customer-facing authentication platform. \nContribute to documentation, runbooks, and design reviews that clarify how authentication services behave, how AI/ML components are used safely, and how other engineers should integrate with the platform. \nWho you are\nYou are a strong communicator who collaborates effectively across engineering, product, test, research, and other cross-functional partners.\nYou are an owner who can independently drive work from design through production with strong judgment around performance, scale, security, and reliability in authentication flows.\nYou are energized by solving hard technical problems and improving systems, processes, and engineering standards, especially in high-stakes, security-sensitive environments.\nYou are resilient, adaptable, and effective in environments that require context switching, rapid troubleshooting, and operating through ambiguity while maintaining high quality.\nYou are resourceful and curious-comfortable learning new tools (including AI tooling) and teaching yourself what you need to move a problem forward, then sharing that knowledge with the team.\nYou are invested in helping others grow and bring a mentorship mindset to code reviews, pairing, and day-to-day collaboration.\nYour skill-set\nMust-haves:\n5-7+ years of professional software development experience building backend services and APIs.\nStrong experience with Go, Python, or similar languages, plus a solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and Linux-based development.\nHands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems in AWS or GCP, including managed services such as S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and IAM.\nExperience with CI/CD, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and production ownership, including deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting services in live environments.\nNice-to-haves:\nExperience with backend data stores and messaging technologies such as Redis, MySQL, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch.\nExperience in authentication, identity, fraud prevention, or other security-sensitive product environments.\nExperience with observability tooling and production diagnostics across metrics, logging, and tracing.\nExposure to UI work or adjacent product experiences that connect backend systems to customer-facing workflows.\nWhat's in it for you\nAt Pindrop, you’ll work on the backend and platform systems that power Passport, helping secure critical customer interactions where trust, fraud prevention, and identity verification matter every day. You’ll tackle meaningful cloud engineering challenges that shape reliability, scalability, and the speed at which products reach customers, with direct visibility into the impact of your work. As a senior engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to influence architecture, raise technical standards, and help strengthen a growing team alongside experienced partners across the platform. You’ll join a company operating at the intersection of authentication, fraud prevention, and deepfake defense, where strong engineering directly supports the business and the customers who rely on it.\nWhat we offer\nAs a part of Pindrop, you’ll have a direct impact on our growing list of products and the future of security in the voice-driven economy. We hire great people and take care of them. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits we offer:\nCompetitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees, so everyone shares in our long-term success.\nRemote-first environment - giving you flexibility and autonomy in how you structure your day.\nWhile we work flexibly, we prioritize meaningful in-person moments through regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings that foster connection, collaboration, and shared success.\nUnlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)\nGenerous health and welfare plans to choose from - including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan!\nBest-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution\nLow-cost vision and dental plans for you and your family, providing comprehensive coverage and peace of mind.\nPaid Parental Leave - Including birth, adoptive & foster parents\nOne year of diaper delivery for your newest addition to the family! It’s our way of welcoming new Pindroplets to the family!\nRecurring monthly phone and internet allowance to help cover essential connectivity costs and support flexible work.\nEnhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits to support family-building journeys and personalized health needs.\nAnnual Learning & Development stipend to support your professional growth, skill-building, certifications, and continued education.\n#LI-Remote #LI-HB1\nPlease note that the base pay range is a general guideline only. Pindrop considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills, as well as market and business considerations, when extending an offer.\nUS Base Pay Range\n$130,000—$170,000 USD\nNot sure if this is you?\nWe want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.\nAI - A Transformative Force\nAt Pindrop, we view artificial intelligence as a transformative force that, when harnessed responsibly, can unlock unprecedented value for our customers, partners and society and enable and empower us to continue to deliver cutting-edge technology to combat fraud and unblur the lines between what it means to be human versus machine.\nPindrop may use AI tools to help prioritize job applications for human review. The AI tool may analyze your work experience and skills to assess fit for the role, but does not consider your name or contact details. Applications with the strongest match to job requirements are prioritized for human review; not all applications may be individually reviewed.\nPindrop is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nHere at Pindrop, it is our mission to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. 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