The Role:

As a Software Engineer, you will be a core member of our engineering team, building the backend systems that power both our core product and our agentic AI platform. This is a backend-focused role for engineers who thrive on solving challenges at a massive scale; full-stack experience is a strong plus. You will design, build, and deploy the critical infrastructure and services that handle everything from petabyte-scale data retrieval to running thousand-step AI agents. This is a unique opportunity to tackle some of the most demanding problems in computing today and build systems with government-level security and reliability.

What You'll Do:

• Engineer Core Product Features: Take ownership of building and delivering scalable, secure backend services that directly power our user-facing product.
• Build Petabyte-Scale AI Pipelines: Design and implement robust systems for retrieval over petabyte-scale document troves and engineer pipelines for large-scale data collection.
• Develop Advanced Agentic Systems: Build the backend infrastructure for complex, 1000-step planning agents that help companies with critical processes, and create organizational-level interfaces for human-AI collaboration.
• Contribute to the architecture and management of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Engineer systems with the highest standards of security and reliability to protect the world's most sensitive data.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Proven Technical Impact: A demonstrated track record of delivering complex, high-quality backend systems.
• Product Building Experience: You have a history of building and launching robust products or platforms, ideally in a hyper-growth or 0-to-1 startup environment.
• Deep Technical Expertise: You are a hands-on, highly technical backend engineer with proficiency in:
• Python: For building robust backend services and AI pipelines.
• Large-Scale Systems: Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark), and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• TypeScript and React (optional): Experience is a plus for contributing across the stack but is not required.
• Ownership and Drive: You take full ownership of your projects, demonstrating a strong bias for action and the ability to manage complex priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving: You are a proactive and resourceful problem-solver who is comfortable with ambiguity and sees immense challenges as opportunities for growth.
• Clear Communication: You can articulate complex technical ideas clearly and persuasively to stakeholders across the organization.

Compensation and benefits

• Flexible PTO policy.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Meals and snacks in the office
• Relocation and immigration support

Zania is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.