Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MixMode is a leading provider of AI-powered cybersecurity solutions at scale, pioneering a patented third-wave, context-aware AI approach. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the reliability, performance, and scalability of our production AI systems, focusing on understanding, refining, and strengthening existing distributed services.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance, and operational health of production AI services
- Refactor and harden existing systems to improve resilience, clarity, and maintainability
- Diagnose and resolve issues across distributed services, data pipelines, and storage layers
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and debugging tools for high-availability systems
- Partner with researchers and engineers to productionize predictive systems at scale
- Establish best practices for testing, deployment, capacity planning, and incident response
- Contribute to incident response and postmortems, driving continuous improvement
Skills
- Ability to travel to our office in Santa Barbara, CA, a few times per year
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one JVM language (Java, Scala, Kotlin)
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production
- Strong understanding of service architecture, concurrency, resource management, and distributed failure modes
- Experience operating Kubernetes deployments
- Strong experience with relational databases, including query performance analysis, indexing, and connection management
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues across system layers
- Experience implementing automated testing and production observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
- Experience collaborating with ML or data science teams (deep ML expertise is *not* required)
- Ability to improve system architecture and engineering practices through design, code review, and mentorship
Benefits
- Remote-First Work Culture
- Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision, Accident)
- Basic & Voluntary Life and AD&D
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Paid Holidays & Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
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