Software Engineer, Backend (Collection Fingerprinting)

About the role

You will be an engineer on the team building systems to collect hard-to-access data. This data forms the foundation of our company’s advantage. Your role is to elevate and extend our existing collection capabilities — strengthening the core engines, improving resilience in adversarial environments, and expanding how this data is exposed through interfaces for agents and other engineering teams. We operate in environments where automated defensive systems are sophisticated and continuously evolving. This role is about designing statistically disciplined, cross-layer systems that remain reliable under that scrutiny without sacrificing scale, stability, or operational integrity.

This role requires deep experience with browser automation, anti-bot defenses, fingerprinting and signature mitigation, distributed scraping architectures, and infrastructure designed for sensitive or misattributed environments. You will help shape the evolution of our collection stack end-to-end — from low-level evasion techniques and managed attribution browsing to clean, well-defined tool calls that agents can use predictably and at scale. You’ll collaborate closely across engineering and mission teams, translating real-world data needs into durable technical systems.

What you’ll do

• Master our data and capabilities. We’ve built world-class data collection for some key national security data sets. Understand how we’ve built it, what our differentiators are, and how to take it to the next level.
• Understand our users. You’ll need to understand their missions, challenges, and expectations to build systems that help them.
• Shape our collection approach. You understand how our systems interact with defensive systems, and will develop and implement technical plans that keep high-value data flowing.
• Build and maintain stable, scalable systems. Our customers operate 24x7 and need access to fresh, rich, operationally-relevant data. You will design collection systems that remain stable under sophisticated automated detection regimes.
• Contribute to agentic capability. Ensure the tools you build and collected data is usable by agents (tool-call readiness, retrieval patterns, schemas/metadata, evaluation loops, etc.). Identify gaps where the right data isn’t getting into agent tool calls and coordinate fixes.

You might be a fit if you

• Care deeply about the mission: the data we collect is enabling massive, generational impact across many national security missions.
• Have strong back-end experience and understanding of distributed systems.