Fullstack Software Engineer

Overview

Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.

Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.

About the role:

As a Full-Stack Engineer at Nightfall, you will be responsible for building end-to-end features that empower our customers to protect their most sensitive data. You will work across the entire stack—from crafting intuitive interfaces in React to architecting high-throughput backend services that handle data at scale.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Ownership: Design, develop, and deploy scalable features from the database layer to the user interface.
• System Architecture: Help define and evolve a scalable full-stack architecture, ensuring seamless integration between frontend components and backend microservices.
• Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship to junior engineers and drive best practices across the engineering organization.
• Collaborative Execution: Partner closely with Product and Design to translate complex problem statements into technical specifications and high-quality code.
• Performance & Reliability: Optimize application performance and ensure the reliability of our data protection platform through rigorous testing and observability.
  
  

• 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications.
• Frontend Expertise: Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern CSS frameworks (like Tailwind).
• Backend Expertise: Deep experience with server-side languages—specifically Go or Python—and building RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Data Modeling: Solid understanding of both SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, Redis, or PostgreSQL).
• Infrastructure: Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and a working knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS.
• Testing: Commitment to quality through unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Soft Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; a collaborative spirit and a "team-first" mentality.
• Browser Extension: Experience building browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox or Safari) is a plus.
  
  

We don't expect you to be an expert in everything, but you'll be working with:

• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, GraphQL
• Backend: Go, Python
• Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
  
  

Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL

Environment

Nightfall AI takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

Compensation

Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits & perks, and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.