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Zettasoft is a software development company with offices in New York and Cairo. We solve business problems with technology, partnering with clients to design and build modern, AI-enabled platforms that move their business forward. You can learn more at zettasoft.com.
About the Role
We are building the next generation Cybersecurity Management Platform — a product that unifies security posture and response workflows into a single pane of glass, with LLM-powered automation at its core. We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and build the services that power it.
You will own backend systems end-to-end: from API design and data modeling, to LLM-orchestrated workflows, to production deployment on a modern container platform. You will write code, set the bar for engineering quality, and shape how AI coding agents are used inside our team. This is a high-ownership role for an engineer who genuinely enjoys shipping secure, well-tested software and wants to work on a product where security correctness is a feature, not an afterthought.
What You’ll Do
• Design, build, and operate backend services in Python using Django and FastAPI for our cybersecurity management platform.
• Architect LLM-powered features using the Anthropic or OpenAI APIs — prompts, tool use, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and cost/latency controls.
• Design clean, well-documented REST and async APIs and the data models behind them; make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, simplicity, and long-term maintainability.
• Build and operate services as part of a modern microservices architecture, deployed as containers (Docker) and orchestrated with Kubernetes or equivalent.
• Write secure code by default: apply OWASP Top 10 thinking to every endpoint, review peers’ code for security flaws, and partner with security stakeholders on threat modeling.
• Use Claude Code, Codex, or similar AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow — delegating to them where it accelerates quality, and knowing when not to.
• Own your services in production: observability, SLOs, on-call, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Raise the engineering bar through code review, design review, mentorship of junior engineers, and thoughtful technical writing.
What We’re Looking For
Must-haves
• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building production services in Python.
• Strong hands-on experience with both Django and FastAPI — you understand when to reach for each and why.
• Shipped features that integrate LLMs (Anthropic or OpenAI) into real products — not just demos. You have opinions on prompt design, tool/function calling, evaluations, and controlling cost and latency in production.
• You write secure code by default and are deeply familiar with the OWASP Top 10 — injection, broken access control, SSRF, insecure deserialization, and the rest. You spot these in code review without being asked.
• Experience designing and operating modern microservices architectures with container-based deployment (Docker + Kubernetes or equivalent).
• You actively use and embrace AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, or similar — and can speak to how they have changed the way you ship code.
• Strong grounding in relational databases (PostgreSQL), async patterns, testing, and production observability.
• Deep knowledge of REST API design — resource modeling, versioning, pagination, error semantics, idempotency — and a point of view on where REST stops being the right tool.
• Hands-on experience authoring OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications — using them for contract-first design, client and server code generation, and keeping documentation honest as the API evolves.
• DevOps experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent — with automated testing, security scanning, and progressive deployment to production.
• Clear written and verbal communication in English; comfortable collaborating across time zones with our New York team.
Nice-to-haves
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity domain: SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, cloud security, or compliance automation.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS, SQS) and workflow orchestration (Temporal, Celery, Airflow).
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, or agentic systems in production.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform), cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and secure SDLC practices.
• Contributions to open-source Python or security tooling.
What We Offer
• A senior seat on a small, high-ownership team building a greenfield platform — your architectural decisions will matter for years.
• A codebase where AI-assisted engineering is a first-class practice, not an afterthought.
• Competitive compensation, meaningful scope, and a genuine voice in how the product and the engineering org are built.
• Fully remote work from anywhere in Egypt.
• A full-time role on a one-year renewable contract — with the clear expectation of long-term continuation for the right person, as the platform is a multi-year commitment.
How to Apply
Send your résumé/CV, a link to code you are proud of (GitHub, a production service you led, or a non-trivial side project), and a short note on one LLM-powered feature you have shipped — what was hard about it, and what you would do differently next time — to career@zettasoft.com.
Zettasoft is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate applicants on the strength of their work and their fit for the role, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
