Software Engineer, Fullstack

Who We Are

Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform helping the world’s leading enterprises reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies, along with multiple Fortune 500 organizations, rely on Ambient.ai to modernize their physical security infrastructure.

Our platform uses advanced AI and computer vision to seamlessly integrate with existing camera and sensor systems, enabling real-time monitoring and proactive threat detection. By reducing false alarms by over 95%, Ambient.ai allows security teams to focus on real threats and prevent incidents before they occur.

Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is a Series B company on a mission to make every security incident preventable.

We’ve found that in-person time meaningfully supports collaboration, creativity, and team alignment. Our engineering, product, design, and marketing teams work from our Redwood City office 3 days per week. All other Bay Area employees join on Fridays to stay connected and close out the week together.

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Position Overview

We are bootstrapping our India Technology Engineering division with exponential growth ahead. Working under the leadership of Kiran Palan and Vikesh Khanna, you will contribute majorly to our core platform and security engineering of Ambient.ai and will help in bootstrapping the India Technology Centre.

The Impact You'll Make

• 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-size 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
  
  

Skills

The amazing skills you'll bring to Ambient.ai:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background
• At least 3+ years of experience building scalable and available web services.
• Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages, like Python, Django, and React.js, 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 systems including communication between several services (pub-sub paradigm, microservices architecture)
• Manage service reliability, including any cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar tools/technologies will be highly preferred
• Experience building SaaS product offerings will be a huge advantage.
  
  

Why Join Us

• We are creating an entirely new category within a 120+ billion-dollar physical security industry and looking for team members who are also passionate about our mission to prevent every security incident possible
• We have an impressive customer roster of F500 companies, including Adobe, VMware, and SentinelOne
• Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of our company
• We offer flexible time off to rest and recharge, including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s for most roles, depending on customer demand)
• The latest tech and awesome swag will be delivered to your door
• Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers
• We love to hike, are foodies, and love music! Check out our most recent Ambient Spotify Playlist
  
  

Ambient.ai is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ambient does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. Ambient is an E-Verify participant.