Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time.

Ambient.ai is the category creator and leader in Agentic Physical Security. Powered by Ambient Pulsar, the first reasoning Vision-Language Model purpose-built for physical security, our platform seamlessly integrates with existing security cameras and physical access control systems to unify monitoring, access control, threat assessment, response, and investigations through an always-on reasoning layer that augments security operators with superhuman capabilities. The results: 95% fewer false alarms, investigations 20x faster, and 10x faster response.

The momentum speaks for itself: we doubled new ARR in FY26, we process 200M+ video hours per day, and have delivered results for world-class customers including Cisco, ServiceNow, SentinelOne, TikTok, Bayer, and MoMA. That kind of momentum creates an environment where great people thrive, and it shows: we recently ranked #71 out of 500 on the Forbes best startup employers list https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/.

Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is on a fast-paced journey to fulfill our mission: prevent every security incident possible.

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About the role:

We are bootstrapping our India Technology Engineering division with exponential growth ahead. Working under the leadership of Kiran Palan https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranpalan/ and Vikesh Khanna https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikesh-khanna-27184722/, you will contribute majorly to our core platform and security engineering of Ambient.ai, and will help in bootstrapping the India Technology Centre.

What you'll do:

- Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints

- Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive, fault-tolerant microservices

- Core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data

- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of all backend services

- Develop large-scale platform problems and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end

- You will work as an important member of the platform team that owns one or more services/product features, end-to-end

- Expect to be challenged and stretch your skills regularly

What you'll bring:

- BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background

- At least 7+ years of experience building scalable and available web services

- Strong experience working with at least one of the object-oriented programming languages, such as Python, C++, and Golang, would be required

- Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems

- Write clean and maintainable code

- Design and implement complex