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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 Capture team, you will play a critical role in building and evolving systems that ingest and process communication data across telephony and modern meeting platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Google Meet. You will design and develop systems that capture, process, and prepare audio and video streams for downstream analysis, enabling new product capabilities within the Pindrop platform. This role requires strong experience with real-time media systems, and a focus on building scalable, high-performance, and reliable solutions.\nMore specifically, you will:\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain complex software systems that ingest and process real-time and recorded audio/video streams. Build and evolve scalable media pipelines that are reliable, performant, and optimized for low-latency processing within the Pindrop platform.\nProvide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers and the development team, including code reviews, architecture decisions, and mentoring. \nContribute to the architecture of distributed systems that support high-throughput media ingestion and processing, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and maintainability. Help define patterns for real-time and asynchronous media workflows.\nAnalyze and solve complex technical problems, and make recommendations for improvements and optimizations.\nImplement and advocate for best practices in testing and quality assurance, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing.\nParticipate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and consistency.\nStay current with emerging technologies, tools, and programming languages and apply them where relevant to improve software development processes.\nEnsure software adheres to security standards and compliance requirements, addressing vulnerabilities and potential risks.\nWho you are\nYou are resilient in the face of challenges, change, and ambiguity.\nYou are optimistic and believe that you can make a problem into a solution,\nYou are resourceful, excited to uncover innovative solutions and teach yourself something new when needed.\nYou take accountability, do the things you say you’ll do, under-promise and over-deliver.\nYou are a strong problem-solver with excellent analytical skills.\nYou are an owner and enjoy taking on project leadership as well as mentorship.\nYou are a strong verbal and written communicator. \nYour skill-set\nExperience with real-time communication systems, including VoIP, SIP, RTP, or WebRTC.\nExperience working with audio and/or video processing pipelines, codecs, or streaming technologies.\nExperience building and operating micro-services and REST/gRPC APIs.\nFamiliarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and debugging distributed systems.\nExperience with security best practices and compliance requirements in cloud environments.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK) and DevOps practices, including hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and managing applications in Kubernetes.\nWhat’s in it for you\nHigh-Impact Mission: Build Pindrop's \"front door\"-the real-time ingestion layer for audio/video data from global providers.\nDefend Against GenAI: Provide the critical data flow for our deepfake detection engines, protecting billions of interactions for the world's top institutions.\nElite Tech Challenges: Solve complex scaling puzzles (SIPREC, Amazon Connect, Audiohook) alongside world-class AI and security minds.\nPindrop Culture : Thrive in a remote-first environment with a focus on innovation.\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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