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This position is integral in supporting our product's ability to deliver high-quality services by managing and processing large volumes of data, ensuring robust infrastructure, developing efficient data pipelines, and providing reliable APIs for internal and external use. You will tackle challenges across multiple domains, such as optimizing data storage and retrieval in databases, ensuring data integrity and efficiency in our pipelines, and building scalable APIs to support our application's growing needs. By contributing across these areas, you will play a key role in enhancing our product's performance, scalability, and reliability. Candidates with a strong foundation in Python, algorithms, data structures, system design, and a versatile skill set spanning data engineering, database management, and API development will find this role both challenging and rewarding.\nThe ideal candidate is a motivated problem solver who prioritizes high-quality solutions and excels in navigating ambiguity. As an early team member, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of various aspects of our backend from day one. Your role will be pivotal in establishing engineering best practices, balancing engineering priorities with business needs, and identifying innovative approaches to deliver outstanding value to our users. Your engineering knowledge will be applied by designing top-notch architectures, offering insightful feedback on technical designs, solving difficult problems and conducting thorough code reviews, all aimed at ensuring the software we build is both maintainable and dependable.\nIn this role, you will:\nExecute complex backend software engineering projects focusing on APIs, data processing, infrastructure and platform.\n\nDrive the execution of key engineering initiatives.\n\nFostering a culture of technical excellence.\n\nBe self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.\n\nAuthor technical proposals to document and align teams on the design of complex projects.\n\nTroubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime and impact on business operations.\n\nSuccess in this role requires:\n7+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend, platform or system programming.\n\nKeen sense for identifying business needs and can communicate a clear vision for implementing solutions.\n\nStrong communication skills, capable of explaining technical issues to non-technical audiences.\n\nExperience with Python and it's ecosystem.\n\nExperience designing and building multi-tenant SaaS platforms that ensure data isolation, scalability, and robust security.\n\nExperience with cloud service providers in a production setting (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).\n\nExperience with relational databases in a production setting.\n\nDeep understanding of computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithms, and computational complexity.\n\nProficiency in system design.\n\nSkill in data architecture and data modeling.\n\nFamiliarity with common design patterns.\n\nKnowledge of API design and development best practices.\n\nWays to stand out:\nExperience with Mathematical Optimization (e.g. route planning, supply chain optimization, scheduling).\n\nExperience with Logic/Relational Programming (e.g. Prolog, Minikanren, Datalog).\n\nExperience in data architecture, database schema design, database scaling and complex queries.\n\nExperience with batch or streaming data pipelines.\n\nExperience with platform engineering and IAC tools like Teraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, etc.\n\nExperience with Control Systems Engineering (e.g. industrial automation, robotics, avionics systems).\n\nWorking at Reach Security:\nCompetitive salary, commission, and equity package\n\nComprehensive benefits package including:\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance, including plan options with company-paid employee coverage\n\nFSA, HSA, and 401(k) plans\n\nCompany paid life insurance and disability coverage, along with buy up options\n\nVoluntary benefits including pet insurance, identify theft coverage, and legal services\n\nUnlimited PTO and sick time\n\nFully remote team, providing flexibility and a diverse culture","description_format":"text","description_chars":4642,"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":["Equity","Life insurance","Unlimited PTO","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Cybersecurity","Information Technology"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T15:33:06Z"}],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.376,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":140,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:29","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/reach-security-staff-software-engineer-backend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/reach-security-staff-software-engineer-backend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:34:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1922,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3078,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}