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Software Engineer, Product & Platform

Adaptive · NYC · On-site

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About Adaptive

Human security for the AI era. Adaptive unifies security awareness training, phishing simulations, agentic email security, and AI governance. Backed by a16z.

About the role

Build end-to-end systems. You’ll work with a top-tier engineering team and close cross-functional partners to ship products that prevent AI-powered social engineering. You’ll work across backend services, detection pipelines, product infrastructure, and delightful user experiences. Drive execution and product strategy. You’ll take ambiguous customer problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and collaborate in-person with product, design, and engineering on the right path forward.

More about this role

Adaptive Security is building the next-generation security platform for the AI age.

Attackers can now use AI to generate deepfakes and orchestrate highly personalized attacks at massive scale against anyone in an organization. We help companies prepare for that reality by simulating modern attacks, educating employees, detecting malicious emails, preventing risky behavior, and giving security teams the visibility they need to keep their organizations safe.

We are early, moving quickly, and already emerging as a leader in one of the fastest-growing areas of security. We have raised over $146M to solve a problem that is getting more serious every month. Most recently, we announced our $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA’s NVentures, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, and continued support from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the OpenAI Startup Fund, and Abstract Ventures.

Adaptive was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, repeat entrepreneurs who have built and scaled category-defining companies. They previously co-founded Attentive, which grew to more than $500M in annual revenue and a $10B+ valuation, and TapCommerce, which was acquired by...

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