Software Engineer - Full Stack
Ambient.ai, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
- Pay
- Not listed by the employer
- Work type
- Not stated
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Apr 14, 2025
About the role
Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform that helps enterprise organizations reduce risk, improve security operation efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies and multiple Fortune 500 organizations across various industries leverage Ambient.ai to unify their security infrastructure and significantly enhance their security posture.
The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to monitor and detect threats continuously in real-time. Ambient.ai does this while simultaneously decreasing false alarms by over 95%, allowing security teams to focus on legitimate threats. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less and prevent security incidents before they happen.
We were founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna, 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), Allegion Ventures, SV Angel, Y Combinator, and investment angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil.
Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021, 2022, 2023, and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020, we are turning the impossible into the inevitable. We always seek passionate people who enjoy solving the most challenging problems with cutting-edge AI/ML.
The impact you'll make:
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Design and implement REST and GraphQL endpoints
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Design and implement highly available, latency-sensitive fault-tolerant microservices
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Core infrastructure for processing large volumes of video streaming data
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Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of all backend services
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Develop large-size platform problems and own small-to-medium platform features end-to-end.
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You will work as an important member of the platform team that owns one or more services/product features, end-to-end
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Expect to be challenged and stretch your skills regularly
The amazing skills you'll bring to Ambient.ai:
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BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background
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At least 4+ years of experience building scalable and available web services
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Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages like Python , Django, and React.js would be required
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Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems.
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Write clean and maintainable code
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Design and implement complex systems including communication between several services (pub-sub paradigm, microservices architecture)
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