Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Anvilogic is a Palo Alto-based AI cybersecurity startup founded in 2019 by security veterans and data scientists from Fortune 500 companies.

Our mission is to democratize threat detection and hunting for today’s SOC teams to easily be done across hybrid, multi-clouds and security data lakes without needing to centralize data or rip and replace tools. Further, with our investments in AI-powered automation of detection-as-code to create, test, tune and deploy detections, SOC users can implement high-efficacy detection and hunting techniques without writing a single line of code nor manually wrangling data.

Anvilogic raised $45M Series C funding in April 2024 and is backed by top-tier VC firms and prominent industry executives. Anvilogic’s AI-powered Multi-Data Platform SIEM is used by many of the industry’s most advanced security teams.

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Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Anvilogic, you are responsible for designing, building, and operating the platform services that form the foundation of our application. You will work directly on company critical systems that authenticate our users, securely connect to our customers' data stores, and manage the groups, roles, and permissions that govern access across the product. These are enterprise systems built for some of the largest companies in the world, so security, reliability, and scale are core to everything you build. Our platform services are written in Java and run on AWS.

Role Responsibilities

• Build and design the next generation of Anvilogic products to meet the high-growth needs of our company and customers for years to come
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Work with product management teams to map out non-functional requirements and implement those requirements in your services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Spread knowledge of platform and security best practices throughout Anvilogic through mentorship, documentation, and brown bag sessions

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience
• Professional experience developing in Java
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with AWS, relational databases like Postgres/MySQL & big data pipelines such as Kaka and/or Kinesis
• Experience with defining non-functional requirements, measuring SLOs, and balancing tech foundation and product timelines
• Ability to quickly come up to speed on our platform tech stack, which uses Java deployed on AWS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS systems for enterprise customers
• Experience deploying services using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS SAM, CloudFormation, or CDK)
• Experience with observability technologies like Grafana and AWS CloudTrail
• Working knowledge of Data Lakes (Snowflake, Databrics)
• Some experience with LLMs, implementing standard patterns (Agents, RAG, Tools), and leveraging popular frameworks.
• Knowledge of Scala/Python

Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity in the company
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited paid time off policy for work life balance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Monthly stipend for home internet and cell phone expenses