Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Innovation

Overview of Job/Team

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive AI innovation across SpyCloud by exploring emerging technologies, rapidly prototyping new ideas, and turning successful experiments into scalable capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Drive AI innovation across SpyCloud by identifying, evaluating, and applying emerging technologies in AI, agents, and knowledge systems.
• Rapidly prototype new products, workflows, and capabilities to validate technical feasibility and business value.
• Architect and build scalable AI systems that combine LLMs, graph technologies, proprietary intelligence, and cloud-native services.
• Partner with product, engineering, data science, and executive leadership to transform successful prototypes into production-ready capabilities.
• Develop reusable frameworks, tools, and reference architectures that enable teams across SpyCloud to leverage AI effectively.
• Evaluate and benchmark emerging models, agent frameworks, and AI tooling, providing technical guidance on adoption and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy through hands-on leadership, clear communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level.
• Proven track record of independently driving ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from concept through adoption.
• Deep hands-on experience building applications powered by LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and modern AI tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype, iterate, and validate new ideas while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale graph databases or knowledge graph systems at scale (Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph, JanusGraph, or similar).
• Strong software engineering and systems design skills, including experience building distributed cloud-native applications, preferably in AWS.
• Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable balancing exploratory innovation with production-quality engineering and long-term platform thinking.

Nice to Have

• Experience building cybersecurity, fraud detection, identity intelligence, or threat intelligence systems.
• Experience with knowledge graphs, entity resolution, and large-scale relationship analytics.
• Experience building developer platforms, internal frameworks, or shared infrastructure adopted across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation, observability, benchmarking, and governance practices.
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms containing billions of entities and relationships.

Base Salary Range

$155,000 – $233,000

U.S.-Based Benefits + Perks (for Full Time Employees)

• 401(k) with Employer Contribution
• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA) available with Employer Contribution
• Employer Paid Life, Short-term, and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Generous PTO Plan and 16 paid holidays per year

The U.K.-Based Benefits + Perks (for Full Time Employees)

• Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
• Employer Provided Private Health Insurance and Healthcare Cashplan
• Employer Paid Life Insurance and Income Replacement
• Generous Holiday Plan and 14 paid holidays per year

About SpyCloud

SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions use advanced analytics and AI to accelerate investigations and protect workforce, consumer, and supplier identities from the threats that matter most: authentication bypass, session hijacking, malicious insiders, account takeover, ransomware, and fraud. Its data from malware-infected devices, successful phishes, combolists, and third-party breaches also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings. Customers include 7 of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to more than 250 cybersecurity experts whose mission is to protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. Together with our customers and partners, we aim to end criminals’ ability to profit from stolen information.

Who We Are

SpyCloud is a place for innovative, collaborative, and problem-solvers to thrive. Individually, we’re amazing, but together, we’re unstoppable. We celebrate diversity and various perspectives and aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment for all. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. SpyCloud complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Our Culture

Our culture is something really special. We’re all driven to disrupt the cybercriminal economy as we keep customer accounts safe from compromise. We support a truly worthy and serious mission, but we have fun doing it together. If you are driven, inventive, and collaborative, you’ll fit right in.

SpyCloud’s Recruitment Policy

We will never ask an applicant for sensitive or personal financial information during the recruitment process. We advise all applicants seeking employment with SpyCloud to review available information on recruitment fraud. Anyone who suspects that they have been contacted by someone falsely representing SpyCloud should email careers@spycloud.com.

Compensation Transparency Policy

At SpyCloud, we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. We strive to ensure that all employees are fairly compensated for their contributions, and we openly discuss our compensation philosophy and structure. We are committed to providing competitive salaries and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent, and we encourage open dialogue and feedback regarding compensation matters.