{"id":813042,"url":"https://alion.io/job/protegrity-senior-genai-backend-software-engineer","title":"Senior GenAI Backend Software Engineer","company":{"id":688738,"name":"Protegrity","domain":"protegrity.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/protegrity","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Menlo Park, United States","San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":209100,"max":234100,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":234100},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Tokenization","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-29T22:00:37Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-29","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T07:56:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":56,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":56},"description":"At Protegrity, we lead innovation by using AI and quantum-resistant cryptography to transform data protection across cloud-native, hybrid, on-premises, and open source environments. We leverage advanced cryptographic methods such as tokenization, format-preserving encryption, and quantum-resilient techniques to protect sensitive data. As a global leader in data security, our mission is to ensure that data isn’t just valuable but also usable, trusted, and safe.\nProtegrity offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of innovation and collaboration, with the ability to make a meaningful impact on the industry while working alongside some of the brightest minds. Together, we are redefining how the world safeguards data, enabling organizations to thrive in a GenAI era where data is the ultimate currency. If you're ready to shape the future of data security, Protegrity is the place for you.\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking a senior software engineer with experience in backend API development, deployment on Kubernetes, familiarity with Generative AI (GenAI) application backend engineering.\nThis role offers the opportunity to be hands-on and build enterprise-grade capabilities that enable the safe, secure, and private consumption of GenAI by customers, as Protegrity accelerates its AI-driven strategy at a pivotal moment in the market.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDevelop, test, and maintain Python based backend applications running on Kubernetes\n\nIntegrate GenAI systems including LLM, VectorDB, RAG pipelines, agents, and guardrails into our product features.\n\nSupport GenAI team's platform infrastructure for experimentation and evaluations\n\nCollaborate closely with other software engineers, product teams, AI researchers, and security specialists to deliver enterprise-grade software products and features for safe, secure, and private consumption of GenAI.\n\nWhat You’ll Need\n7+ years of experience in backend software engineering with experience productionizing agentic harnesses\n\nExperience building and shipping customer-facing Kubernetes-based software platforms, including Helm charts, infrastructure automation, and deployment tooling.\n\nExpertise developing REST APIs across services in Kubernetes\n\nFamiliarity with version control tools, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.\n\nExperience integrating and managing LLMs and prompt tracing platforms\n\nExperience integrating databases into backend systems, including vector databases\n\nExperience with integrating software products using authentication and authorization including cloud IAM, SSO, JWT, oAuth, etc.\n\nStrong skills cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).\n\nShould you accept this position, you will be required to consent to and successfully complete a background investigation. This may include, subject to local laws, verification of extended education and additional criminal and civil checks.\nWe offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits with generous vacation and holiday time off. All employees are also provided access to ongoing learning & development.\nEnsuring a diverse and inclusive workplace is our priority. We are committed to an environment of acceptance where you are free to bring your full self to work. All qualified applicants and current employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status.\nPlease reference Section 12: Supplemental Notice for Job Applicants in our Privacy Policy to inform you of the categories of personal information that we collect from individuals who inquire about and/or apply to work for Protegrity USA, Inc., or its parent company, subsidiaries or affiliates, and the purposes for which we use such personal information.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3790,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Generous vacation"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Data & Analytics","Cybersecurity AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T10:41:27Z"}],"liveness":{"score":41,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.748,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":56,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:8","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":234100,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/protegrity-senior-genai-backend-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/protegrity-senior-genai-backend-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T07:59:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}