Senior Software Engineer - Middleware

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer, Middleware will design and deliver the control-plane capabilities that power Dropzone AI’s autonomous investigation platform. You’ll own the systems that orchestrate investigations end-to-end—configuration, policy, scheduling, workflow, reporting—and make it easy for customers and internal teams to operate at scale.

What you'll do

• Lead design and implementation of control-plane services (APIs, schedulers, workflow/rules engines, config & policy management).
• Build features around reporting/analytics, global alert filters/policies, re-investigation flows, and customer-visible auditability.
• Evolve multi-tenant, role-aware “organization & permissions” models; ensure safe, idempotent, and rate-limited operations.
• Define and version public/internal APIs
• Partner with AI Core, Security Integrations, and GTM to prioritize roadmap and translate ambiguity into shipped outcomes.
• Provide mentorship and raise the bar on code quality, design reviews, and operational excellence.
• Drive quality through automated testing, performance monitoring, and secure coding practices.
• Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including leading projects from design to production.
• Strong Python backend skills (clean, maintainable code; async where it counts) and service/API fundamentals.
• Experience building control-plane or platform/middleware systems (workflow engines, schedulers, policy/rules, config).
• Solid data modeling and operational chops with Postgres and a queue/stream (e.g., Celery/Redis, Pub/Sub, etc).
• Deep understanding of reliability patterns: idempotency, retries, timeouts, rate limiting, consistency trade-offs.
• Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution
• Being data-driven is part of your DNA.

Work Environment/Travel

We are a 100% remote company where you will work from your home with company-provided equipment to set you up for success. Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally; some overnight travel expected.

Compensation

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range below, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous benefits package, including company paid health insurance, 401K Plan with employer match, Self-Managed PTO, parental leave, and more.