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Zania

Software Engineer

Zania, San Francisco

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Overview

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The Role

As a Software Engineer, you will be a core member of our engineering team, building the backend systems that power both our core product and our agentic AI platform. This is a backend-focused role for engineers who thrive on solving challenges at a massive scale; full-stack experience is a strong plus. You will design, build, and deploy the critical infrastructure and services that handle everything from petabyte-scale data retrieval to running thousand-step AI agents. This is a unique opportunity to tackle some of the most demanding problems in computing today and build systems with government-level security and reliability.

What You\'ll Do

  • Engineer Core Product Features: Take ownership of building and delivering scalable, secure backend services that directly power our user-facing product.
  • Build Petabyte-Scale AI Pipelines: Design and implement robust systems for retrieval over petabyte-scale document troves and engineer pipelines for large-scale data collection.
  • Develop Advanced Agentic Systems: Build the backend infrastructure for complex, 1000-step planning agents that help companies with critical processes, and create organizational-level interfaces for human-AI collaboration.
  • Contribute to the architecture and management of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Engineer systems with the highest standards of security and reliability to protect the world\'s most sensitive data.

What We\'re Looking For

  • Experience: 3+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Proven Technical Impact: A demonstrated track record of delivering complex, high-quality backend systems.
  • Product Building Experience: History of building and launching robust products or platforms, ideally in a hyper-growth or 0-to-1 startup environment.
  • Deep Technical Expertise: Hands-on, highly technical backend engineer with proficiency in
    • Python for building robust backend services and AI pipelines
    • Large-Scale Systems: Distributed systems, large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark), and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
    • TypeScript and React (optional): Experience is a plus for contributing across the stack but not required
  • Ownership and Drive: You take full ownership of your projects, with a strong bias for action in a fast-paced environment.
  • Pragmatic Problem-Solving: Proactive and resourceful problem-solver comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Clear Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly to stakeholders across the organization.

Equity and Benefits

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise. Equity may be part of the total compensation package. Zania is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Company Information

Why Zania: We are building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) to solve a massive industry problem, with a rocketship trajectory and a world-class team. Our engineers and GRC experts work at the forefront of applied AI to define the future of compliance.

Equal Opportunity

Zania is an equal opportunity employer.

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