Software Engineer, Backend (Collection Fingerprinting)

About the role

You will be an engineer on the team building systems to collect hard-to-access data. This data forms the foundation of our company’s advantage. Your role is to elevate and extend our existing collection capabilities — strengthening the core engines, improving resilience in adversarial environments, and expanding how this data is exposed through interfaces for agents and other engineering teams.

We operate in environments where automated defensive systems are sophisticated and continuously evolving. This role is about designing statistically disciplined, cross-layer systems that remain reliable under that scrutiny without sacrificing scale, stability, or operational integrity. This role requires deep experience with browser automation, anti-bot defenses, fingerprinting and signature mitigation, distributed scraping architectures, and infrastructure designed for sensitive or misattributed environments. You will help shape the evolution of our collection stack end-to-end — from low-level evasion techniques and managed attribution browsing to clean, well-defined tool calls that agents can use predictively and at scale. You’ll collaborate closely across engineering and mission teams, translating real-world data needs into durable technical systems.

Responsibilities

• Master our data and capabilities. Understand how we’ve built our world-class data collection for key national security datasets, what our differentiators are, and how to take it to the next level.
• Understand our users. Learn their missions, challenges, and expectations to build systems that help them.
• Shape our collection approach. Develop and implement technical plans that keep high-value data flowing despite sophisticated automated detection regimes.
• Build and maintain stable, scalable systems. Design collection systems that remain stable under continuous scrutiny, ensuring 24x7 access to fresh, operationally-relevant data.
• Contribute to agentic capability. Ensure the tools you build and collected data are usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops). Identify gaps where the right data isn’t getting into agent tool calls and coordinate fixes.

Requirements

• Care deeply about the mission: the data we collect enables massive, generational impact across national security missions.
• Strong back-end experience and understanding of distributed systems. Preference for TypeScript/Python expertise.
• Understand how anti-abuse, bot detection, fraud, or traffic integrity systems analyze traffic and operate at scale.
• Data-driven with an eye for instrumentation and monitoring. Ability to reason about how small deviations in protocol behavior, timing, or runtime characteristics propagate into anomaly scores.
• Technically diverse and able to adapt your tool stack quickly.
• Communicate crisply: can write a one-pager that aligns stakeholders, communicates risks, and drives action.
• Prefer structural resilience over reactive tactics.
• Comfortable making hard prioritization calls with incomplete information.

Skills

• Deep understanding of how network-level and browser-level signatures combine to form a holistic risk profile in modern detection systems.
• Experience with web scraping, browser automation, and similar.
• Experience with national security problems and workflows, data platform/product work.
• Familiarity with agentic systems and what makes data “tool-call ready.”
• Full stack capability. This team leans heavily into the backend but occasionally touches the front end (React).

Qualifications

• Grit and creativity to keep going when faced with roadblocks.
• Success in working problems to conclusion and trying different approaches until one works.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Demonstrated bias toward achieving an outcome, even if it requires helping or doing the job of someone else on another team.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance is a plus but not required.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote-friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel