Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Data

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

This is a systems engineering position within a small, newly established team. Rather than managing an existing backlog, you will have the autonomy to own a problem domain, establish its technical vision, and shape the team's trajectory.

What it asks for · 6

• Have strong systems fundamentals (processes, threads, RPC, storage, and how systems fail) and have built and operated large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Have built and operated systems that handle sensitive or high-value data, with access, privacy, retention and security controls designed in from the start
• Have a track record of building platforms or internal tooling that other teams widely adopt
• Have led the technical design of projects that span several engineers or teams
• Learn quickly and adapt: you're comfortable with ambiguity, a fast pace, and systems or languages you haven't used before
• Care about the impact of your work and about making AI safe, use good judgment about what matters most, and can explain technical trade-offs to non-technical partners

Also a plus

• Proficiency in one or more systems languages (e.g., C, C++, Rust, Go)
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable professional experience
• Experience building data infrastructure for ML: training datasets, offline batch inference or evaluation
• Experience with data governance requirements in a regulated or high-sensitivity domain
• Fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code

What the job covers

• Design, build, and operate the stores, pipelines, schemas, and APIs that Safeguards' detection, evaluation, investigation, and review systems read from.
• Build privacy-safe interfaces that allow ML training, evaluation, and investigation workflows to utilize sensitive data without requiring broad access to raw records, ensuring access is tied to purpose and built-in lineage.
• Scale the distributed storage, ingestion, and processing systems operated by Safeguards, maintaining cost efficiency, reliability, and portability across deployment environments.
• Collaborate with investigators, researchers, legal, privacy, and security teams to translate operational requirements into functional mechanisms and systems for safe data utilization.
• Uphold a high operational bar by participating in the on-call rotation, leading incident reviews, and continuously reducing manual operational overhead.
• Lead through technical design by authoring foundational proposals and conducting cross-team architectural reviews.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• systems13×
• data9×
• access6×
• safeguards5×
• design4×
• experience4×
• review4×
• technical4×
• controls3×
• engineering3×
• evaluation3×
• offline3×
• operated3×
• operational3×
• safe3×
• security3×

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