Ambient.ai is a leading computer vision intelligence company. Successfully transforming security operations for large enterprises by preventing security incidents before they happen. Ambient.ai has a globally deployed footprint with a number of F500 companies. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to deliver continuous physical security monitoring and detect threats in real time. Ambient.ai does this while simultaneously decreasing false alarms by over 95%, allowing security teams to efficiently focus on legitimate threats and on rapid response. The future of enterprise physical security is data-driven, intelligent, and proactive. Companies no longer have to choose between reducing operating expenses or mitigating risk. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less, while also improving their security posture.The company was founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna. They are experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford University who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. We are a Series-B company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, YCombinator, and visionary angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil.Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021 and 2022, and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020, we are turning the impossible into the inevitable. We are always looking for passionate people, who enjoy tackling the toughest problems with cutting-edge AI/ML. To experience our technology, check out this video.
Who is Ambient.ai?Mission-driven: we're ready to transform an industryBuilders: we work as a collaborative team to turn the impossible into the inevitableBreakthrough thinkers: we were built on and believe in breakthroughsCustomer-focused: we pride ourselves on creating magical customer experiencesFast-paced: our customer's cameras are always on and we're responsive to the needs of a 24/7 operationInclusive: we value our people and want Ambient.ai to be an inclusive place where you can do your best work
Position Overview:As a Backend Product Engineer, you will help build the product backend for one of the most promising products for the physical security industry. You will have the opportunity to participate and lead on multiple fronts from design sprints and customer conversations to building the services for a rapidly scaling product. The work spans from building new experiences for our users from the ground up as well as improving on existing ones.What you will contribute:
- Ideate solutions and then pitch, plan, measure, and implement them in an iterative fashion
- Create leverage for all of product engineering through your work on services, abstractions, and architecture
- Implement REST and GraphQL APIs for clients
- Design and implementing highly available and fault tolerant microservices and scalable databases to power web applications
- Improve the performance, reliability and scalability of all backend services and frontend clients.
- Develop delightful product features end to end
- Develop fault tolerant build systems for web applications
- Work with frontend engineers to integrate with UI and improve product experience
What you bring to Ambient.ai:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with a strong programming background
- At least 4 years of experience building highly scalable and available web services
- Deep expertise in REST or GraphQL and general web backend design principles
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL / Postgres) and optimizing database queries
- Experience with Python, Go, or another programming language used on the backend
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient algorithms using proper data structures
- Ability to design and implement complex systems (including a real-time WebSocket system, communication systems, etc)
Why join us:
- We are creating an entirely new category within a 180+ 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 Linkedin
- Our employees will tell you, as they told us in our latest engagement survey - they are proud to work for Ambient.ai, they are given the autonomy to do their best work, they find their peers highly collaborative, and they have high confidence in the Company’s leadership, they believe in Ambient’s mission, vision, and values and in our ability to succeed over the next 3 years
- Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of the company
- Comprehensive health + welfare package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, Legal Services, 401k plan)
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