Software Engineer (API / Backend), Mid-Level (Remote)

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Job Summary:

10a Labs is an applied research and AI security company trusted by AI unicorns and Fortune 10 companies. They are seeking a backend-focused software engineer to help productionize their ML systems for real-time use, focusing on building APIs and internal tools that support moderation workflows and monitoring dashboards.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build secure, high-performance APIs for inference, review workflows, and system orchestration.

• Develop internal tools to manage policy configs, annotations, and review queues.

• Integrate ML classifiers and LLMs into backend systems for streaming or batch inference.

• Build and maintain system monitoring for latency, errors, throughput, and system performance.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and ensure the reliability and scalability of backend services.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 3–8 years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles.

• Strong proficiency with Python or another modern backend language.

• Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, FastAPI, Flask, etc.).

• Experience deploying production services in cloud environments (GCP or AWS).

• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and containerization.

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with ML and infra teams.

• Clear communicator who can write well and explain system decisions to technical and non-technical teammates.

Preferred:

• Real-time ML inference or streaming data pipelines.

• Trust & safety, content moderation, or platform abuse detection.

• Experience integrating semantic search, vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone).

• Building dashboards or developer-facing internal tools.

Company:

10a Labs is an applied research and technology company specializing in AI security. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in , with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.