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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.\nAs a Staff Software Engineer on the Authentication team, you will set technical direction for the cloud services and infrastructure behind Passport, guiding the team through its continued migration to the cloud platform. You will operate beyond a single service or sprint, leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives that improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and security posture of Authentication's systems.\nThis is an individual contributor role with broad technical influence and no direct people-management responsibility. You will partner closely with engineering leaders, product, test and research to shape architecture, resolve systemic risks, and turn ambiguous problems into durable solutions. More specifically, you will:\nDefine and evolve the technical strategy and architectural direction for Passport's cloud services, spanning multiple subsystems and workflows.\nLead high-impact, ambiguous initiatives from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and operational follow-through, using Go and Python.\nSet technical standards and reusable patterns for cloud-native services across AWS and GCP, including services such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3, with a focus on reliability, scale, and secure production operation.\nMake and communicate consequential tradeoffs involving reliability, scalability, latency, security, cost, and time to market.\nAnticipate systemic risks, identify architectural gaps, and drive mitigation before they affect customers, delivery velocity, or operational stability.\nPartner closely with software engineering, test engineering, research, product teams to align roadmaps and deliver new capabilities.\nLead technical reviews and facilitate alignment on complex design decisions, migration strategies, and ownership boundaries.\nParticipate in incident response for critical systems, translating operational learnings into durable improvements in alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, and service ownership, using modern observability tooling to reduce ticket volume.\nRaise the effectiveness of engineers across the team through mentorship, code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration.\nParticipate in the team's on-call rotation, including helping cover after-hours alerts as the team expands distributed support coverage.\nWho you are\nYou are a systems thinker who can connect architectural decisions to customer impact, business priorities, and long-term engineering health.\nYou are an owner who can independently drive work from design through production with strong judgment around performance, scale, and security.\nYou are widely trusted to lead complex technical discussions, create alignment, and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.\nYou are comfortable operating in ambiguity, making progress with incomplete information, and adapting technical direction as new evidence emerges.\nYou communicate complex system behavior, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions clearly to engineers, product, and cross-functional partners.\nYou remain calm and accountable during incidents, architectural challenges, and shifting priorities.\nYou are invested in helping others grow and bring a mentorship mindset to code reviews, collaboration, and team development.\nYou are motivated by authentication, identity, and security-sensitive backend engineering at scale.\nYour skill-set\nMust-haves:\n8+ years of professional software development experience building backend services and APIs, or equivalent practical depth.\nDemonstrated Staff-level impact: leading significant technical initiatives across multiple services or domains and delivering measurable outcomes.\nStrong hands-on experience with Go, Python, or similar languages, plus a deep foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and Linux-based development.\nDeep experience designing and operating cloud-native systems in AWS or GCP, including managed services such as S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and IAM.\nProven ownership of highly available systems, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational improvement, using CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.\nExperience defining or influencing technical standards, architecture, or roadmaps across team boundaries.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document decisions and build alignment among stakeholders with different priorities.\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.\nStrong observability practices across metrics, logs, and traces, with a track record of using them to drive production diagnostics.\nExperience leading large-scale migrations, reliability programs, or cost and capacity optimization efforts.\nExperience designing internal platforms, developer tooling, or reusable engineering patterns adopted by multiple teams.\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. \nYou’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 staff engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to influence architecture, raise technical standards, and help strengthen a growing team alongside experienced partners across the platform. \nYou’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.\nThis position will be posted for 30 days, until October 28, 2026.\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$150,000—$200,000 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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