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Senior Software Engineer
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New York, New York | Hybrid
4 - 10 Years of Experience
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Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
Title of Role: Senior Software Engineer
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Company Stage of Funding: Series B ($56M+ raised, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Gradient Ventures, Accomplice)
Office Type: Hybrid (moving toward 3 days/week in-office)
Salary: $190,000 – $240,000 + Competitive Equity
Visa: No visa sponsorship available
Company Description
Our client is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity infrastructure companies transforming how businesses achieve and maintain compliance.
Initially built as a market-leading compliance automation platform, the company is now making a major strategic pivot into cybersecurity infrastructure for U.S. federal defense contractors.
They are cash-flow positive, backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Google’s AI Fund, and have seen explosive growth with federal defense now driving the majority of new revenue.
The engineering team is entering a major build phase focused on experimental cybersecurity products and foundational platform infrastructure.
This is a rare opportunity to join a category-defining cybersecurity company at an inflection point as it expands aggressively into federal defense infrastructure.
What You Will Do
- Build full-stack product features end-to-end
- Design and ship experimental cybersecurity products
- Work across frontend and backend systems
- Build foundational platform infrastructure
- Collaborate across product, design, and engineering
- Own projects from architecture through deployment
- Write high-quality scalable production code
- Participate in system design and technical planning
- Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture
- Improve performance, reliability, and scalability
- Contribute to product direction and roadmap decisions
- Help establish the growing NYC engineering presence
Ideal Candidate Background
- 4–10 years of software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack engineering background
- Excellent TypeScript experience
- Experience with modern backend OOP languages
- Product-focused engineering mindset
- Startup or high-growth company experience
- Strong ownership mentality
- Experience shipping customer-facing products
- Comfortable moving quickly with ambiguity
- Strong systems design fundamentals
- Located in or willing to relocate to NYC
Preferred Experience
- React
- GraphQL
- Ruby on Rails
- Node.js
- Rust
- Series A–C startup experience
- Security / cybersecurity exposure
- Defense tech interest
- Mentorship experience
- Cross-functional product ownership
Strong Signals
- CS degree from top-30 program
- Promotions / strong upward career trajectory
- Product ownership end-to-end
- Series A–C startup experience
- Long tenure / commitment patterns
- Strong technical breadth
- Experience building customer-facing systems
- Excitement for defense cybersecurity mission
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $190,000 – $240,000
- Competitive equity
- Relocation assistance potential
- Hybrid NYC engineering presence
- High ownership and product scope
- Mentorship opportunities
- Strong growth trajectory
- Work on cutting-edge cybersecurity infrastructure
Why Join
This is an opportunity to join one of the strongest cybersecurity companies at a major product inflection point.
You’ll help build the next generation of cybersecurity tooling for the U.S. federal defense industrial base while working at a company with elite investors, strong revenue traction, and meaningful product-market fit.
If you’re excited by high-ownership engineering work, product building, and the opportunity to shape a major strategic company pivot, this is a standout role.
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