Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time. Ambient.ai is the category creator and leader in Agentic Physical Security. Powered by Ambient Pulsar, the first reasoning Vision-Language Model purpose-built for physical security, our platform seamlessly integrates with existing security cameras and physical access control systems to unify monitoring, access control, threat assessment, response, and investigations through an always-on reasoning layer that augments security operators with superhuman capabilities. The results: 95% fewer false alarms, investigations 20x faster, and 10x faster response. The momentum speaks for itself: we doubled new ARR in FY26, and have delivered results for world-class customers including Cisco, ServiceNow, SentinelOne, TikTok, Bayer, and MoMA. That kind of momentum creates an environment where great people thrive, and it shows: we recently ranked #71 out of 500 on the Forbes best startup employers list . Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is on a fast-paced journey to fulfill our mission: prevent every security incident possible. Ready to learn more? Connect with us on LinkedIn and YouTube About the role: We are bootstrapping our India Technology Engineering division with exponential growth ahead. Working under the leadership of Kiran Palan and Vikesh Khanna , you will contribute majorly to our core platform and security engineering of Ambient.ai, and will help in bootstrapping the India Technology Centre. What you'll do: Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive, fault-tolerant microservices Core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of all backend services Develop large-scale platform problems and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end You will work as an important member of the platform team that owns one or m