Staff/Principal Software Engineer (AI Security)
Cyberhaven · Bangalore, India
About the role
Cyberhaven is building an AI Security team to secure data flowing into and out of LLMs, GenAI applications, and agents. As a Staff/Principal Backend Engineer, you'll architect a large-scale, fault-tolerant system processing billions of events with sub-second latency, set technical direction, and mentor senior engineers. The role requires deep Go and microservices expertise.
What you'll do
- Architect, extend, and optimize a large-scale, fault-tolerant system handling billions of AI-related events from hundreds of thousands of endpoints in real time.
- Set technical direction for securing data flowing into and out of AI models, GenAI applications, and agents.
- Architect and implement security features that protect customer data end-to-end.
- Solve real-world scaling problems through performance analysis and troubleshooting.
- Work with a modern microservices stack including Go, Kubernetes, BigTable, BigQuery, Spanner, Redis, Docker, and Etcd.
- Design and build connectors integrating at the API level with SaaS and AI platforms like ChatGPT and Copilot.
What they're looking for
- Strong track record building backends at scale and contributing to their architecture.
- Deep, hands-on experience developing large applications in Go.
- Experience operating databases at very large scale.
- Experience profiling and optimizing distributed code using large databases and streaming platforms.
- Hands-on production experience with microservices and Kubernetes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; available to frequently communicate with distributed teams in Europe and the US.
Key details
- Company
- Cyberhaven
- Location
- Bangalore, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Seniority
- Lead / Principal / Group
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Role category
- Engineering
- Languages
- English (excellent verbal and written)
- Location requirements
- Based in India or the EU
- Posted
- 24 Oct 2026
- Source
- jobs.ashbyhq.com