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Software Engineer - Backend / Platform

GhostEye · New York, NY, US · On-site

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About GhostEye

Your always-on red team. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

You will build the backend services that turn our existing capabilities into complete product workflows. This includes coordinating calls and messages, managing campaign execution, connecting services, and making results available to the product. You will work closely with product and frontend engineers to define service behavior, resolve integration issues, and carry projects through to production. You should be comfortable explaining how a system works, where it can fail, and how you would investigate it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience building and operating production services in TypeScript or Rust , with the ability to work across both
  • A solid understanding of concurrency, asynchronous execution, API design, and data modeling
  • Experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure
  • A methodical approach to debugging across services, networks, and external providers
  • Sound judgment about permissions, failure recovery, and operational complexity
  • Tests that cover meaningful failure cases and verify the behavior the product depends on
More about this role

GhostEye is building an automated social engineer that tests how attackers could deceive employees and gain access to company systems. Our customers include government organizations and Fortune 100 companies .

We operate our own fine-tuned model, voice synthesis, and self-hosted phone infrastructure. We are extending the platform into post-click compromise and downstream access testing , helping security teams establish what access an attack enables, which defenses intervene, and whether a fix holds when tested again.

Our founder previously led BlackRock’s red team and worked in offensive cyber operations at MITRE. The engineering work draws on that experience, with problems spanning real-time communication, controlled execution, and reliable evidence collection.

You will build the backend services that turn our existing capabilities into complete product workflows. This includes coordinating calls and messages, managing campaign execution, connecting services, and making results available to the product.

You will work closely with product and frontend engineers to define service behavior, resolve integration issues, and carry projects through to production. You should be...

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