Senior Software Engineer - Integrations
Description
About Dropzone AI
Dropzone’s mission is to scale cybersecurity beyond human limits, and augment every single human security engineer/analyst with an army of AI security specialists. Humans alone cannot sufficiently protect our digital future, and AI augmentation is the only way for defenders to reclaim the high ground. We are an award winning company disrupting the $200B+ cybersecurity market.
Powered by Gen AI advancements, our technology offloads repetitive day-to-day work and frees human analysts to focus on real threats and higher-value projects. We are venture-backed, and our team has a rare blend of deep experience across cybersecurity, AI/ML, and SaaS product development. Join us if you want to be on the ground floor of using Gen AI to transform cyber defense. Learn more at.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to deepen Dropzone’s integrations. You’ll design and deliver backend capabilities that expand what our product can do and make it easier for customers to connect Dropzone to their security environments.
This is a hands-on engineering role with ownership from design through production. You’ll work closely with product and security experts to build new integrations that improve our investigations and threat hunts. You should enjoy solving complex backend problems, navigating third-party systems, and building software that customers depend on.
What you'll do
- Integrate with security tools: Develop connectors for platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud security, identity, and threat intelligence systems.
- Enable richer investigations: Build services that retrieve security telemetry, enrich alerts with context, and make relevant data available to Dropzone’s investigation workflows.
- Design for reliability: Handle rate limits, pagination, retries, timeouts, schema changes, and partial failures across third-party APIs.
- Build security into the platform: Apply strong authentication, authorization, credential management, tenant isolation, and audit logging.
- Own production outcomes: Write automated tests, instrument services, monitor performance, and troubleshoot issues across APIs and integrations.
- Collaborate and raise the bar: Partner with product and security experts, contribute to architecture decisions, review code, and mentor fellow engineers.
- Deliver with sound judgment: Make practical tradeoffs, communicate risks early, and ship improvements that balance speed, maintainability, and customer impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building backend services and production APIs.
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Experience designing REST APIs, including resource modeling, versioning, authentication, authorization, and backward compatibility.
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs and troubleshooting behavior across distributed systems.
- A solid understanding of databases, asynchronous processing, queues, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building automated tests and using logs, metrics, and traces to diagnose production issues.
- Familiarity with secure development practices and handling sensitive data and credentials.
- The ability to take an ambiguous problem from requirements through implementation, rollout, and ongoing support.
- Clear communication, thoughtful technical judgment, and a collaborative approach to engineering.
- Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution
- Being data-driven is part of your DNA.
Work Environment/Travel
We are a 100% remote company where you will work from your home with company-provided equipment to set you up for success. Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally; some overnight travel expected.
Compensation
In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range below, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition, all compensation packages include significant above market new hire equity grants because we believe in rewarding long term value creation. If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous benefits package, including company paid health insurance, 401K Plan with employer match, Self-Managed PTO, parental leave, and more.
Skills
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Basics
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- What are you targeting in terms of a base salary?
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- Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
- Do you now or in the future require any type of sponsorship to work in the United States?
- In what US state do you currently reside?
- How many years professional experience do you have in Python?
- Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): At Dropzone, we require all job applicants to provide authentic, human-generated content throughout the entire application and interviewing process. The use of generative AI tools or AI assistance to create, draft, edit, or significantly modify application materials (including resumes, cover letters, writing and code samples, and answers to screening questions) or during any interview stage is strictly prohibited. This policy is in place to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills, original thought, and genuine qualifications for the position. Acknowledgment and Agreement: By selecting "I Agree" below and submitting this application, I acknowledge that I have read and understood Dropzone's policy prohibiting the use of AI in the application and interviewing process. I attest that all materials submitted and all responses provided during the application and interview process are my own original work and were not generated or substantially assisted by any AI tool. I understand that if I have used AI in any part of the process, I am required to disclose the extent and nature of that use to Dropzone in advance. I further understand and agree that any failure to disclose the use of AI, or any violation of this policy, is a material misrepresentation and is grounds for immediate removal from consideration or, if hired, for immediate termination of employment, regardless of when the violation is discovered.
- I acknowledge that falsifying information during my application and interview process may result in exclusion from hire with Dropzone or employment termination.
Written answers (1)
- What SIEMs have you integrated/worked with previously?