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title: 'Senior GenAI Backend Software Engineer (773) at Protegrity'
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# Senior GenAI Backend Software Engineer (773) at Protegrity

- **Company:** Protegrity
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Compensation:** $209k–$234k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protegrity/d083ebce-a7b7-4782-a482-7eb5989eb435/application

**Skills:** Backend Software Engineering, GenAI, Large Language Models (LLM), RAG Workflows, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Microservice Architecture, API Development, Cloud Solutions, APIs, Containers, Microservices, Authentication and Authorization, Cloud IAM, SSO, JWT, OAuth, Python

> Develop and maintain robust container-based microservice API architectures and GenAI workflows on Kubernetes. Integrate LLM, RAG, and LLM guardrails into product delivery while ensuring data security, privacy, and safety for enterprise clients.

## Job description

At Protegrity, we lead innovation by using AI and quantum-resistant cryptography to transform data protection across cloud-native, hybrid, on-premises, and open source environments. We leverage advanced cryptographic methods such as tokenization, format-preserving encryption, and quantum-resilient techniques to protect sensitive data. As a global leader in data security, our mission is to ensure that data isn’t just valuable but also usable, trusted, and safe.

Protegrity offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of innovation and collaboration, with the ability to make a meaningful impact on the industry while working alongside some of the brightest minds. Together, we are redefining how the world safeguards data, enabling organizations to thrive in a GenAI era where data is the ultimate currency. If you're ready to shape the future of data security, Protegrity is the place for you.

## Role Overview

We are seeking a senior software engineer with experience in backend API development, deployment on Kubernetes, familiarity with Generative AI (GenAI) application backend engineering.

This role offers the opportunity to be hands-on and build enterprise-grade capabilities that enable the safe, secure, and private consumption of GenAI by customers, as Protegrity accelerates its AI-driven strategy at a pivotal moment in the market.

## What You’ll Do

- Develop, test, and maintain Python based backend applications running on Kubernetes
- Integrate GenAI systems including LLM, VectorDB, RAG pipelines, agents, and guardrails into our product features.
- Support GenAI team's platform infrastructure for experimentation and evaluations
- Collaborate closely with other software engineers, product teams, AI researchers, and security specialists to deliver enterprise-grade software products and features for safe, secure, and private consumption of GenAI.

## What You’ll Need

- 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering with experience productionizing agentic harnesses
- Experience building and shipping customer-facing Kubernetes-based software platforms, including Helm charts, infrastructure automation, and deployment tooling.
- Expertise developing REST APIs across services in Kubernetes
- Familiarity with version control tools, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience integrating and managing LLMs and prompt tracing platforms
- Experience integrating databases into backend systems, including vector databases
- Experience with integrating software products using authentication and authorization including cloud IAM, SSO, JWT, oAuth, etc.
- Strong skills cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).

Should you accept this position, you will be required to consent to and successfully complete a background investigation. This may include, subject to local laws, verification of extended education and additional criminal and civil checks.

We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits with generous vacation and holiday time off. All employees are also provided access to ongoing learning & development.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace is our priority. We are committed to an environment of acceptance where you are free to bring your full self to work. All qualified applicants and current employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Please reference Section 12: Supplemental Notice for Job Applicants in our [Privacy Policy](https://www.protegrity.com/privacy-policy) to inform you of the categories of personal information that we collect from individuals who inquire about and/or apply to work for Protegrity USA, Inc., or its parent company, subsidiaries or affiliates, and the purposes for which we use such personal information.

## About Protegrity

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Protegrity provides a unified data-centric security platform that enables enterprises to protect sensitive data across clouds, analytics, and AI while staying compliant.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- **Founded**: 1996
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security / Data Protection
- **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprises across regulated industries (finance, healthcare, tech)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Protect the world’s most sensitive data wherever it resides" and "Activate Data. Secure Knowledge. Trust AI." (from protegrity.com)

## Products & Services
- **ProtegrityAI Enterprise Edition**: Centralized data protection for hybrid environments – includes discovery, governance, protection (tokenization, encryption, masking), privacy (anonymization, synthetic data), and semantic guardrails for AI. [protegrity.com/product]
- **ProtegrityAI Team Edition**: Deployed for departmental workloads with data-level protection and policy controls for faster, safer innovation. [protegrity.com/product]
- **ProtegrityAI Developer Edition**: Drop-in APIs for notebooks, CI/CD, and pipelines to protect real data during build/test with guardrails for prompts and outputs. [protegrity.com/product]
- **Additional offerings**: Secure Agents, Secure Inferencing, Compliance controls, Quantum-resilient data protection. [protegrity.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – USD 74.5M (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly available (parent company is Xcelera Inc. per LinkedIn)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount: 263 employees (‑0.8% YoY) [LinkedIn]
  - Operates in 15 countries including India, UK, Portugal, Sweden, Singapore [LinkedIn]
  - Over 120 patents granted/pending, 20+ years in data security [protegrity.com/about-us/our-company]
  - LinkedIn followers: 28,513 (+6.4% yearly) [LinkedIn]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data-centric protection** that works consistently across clouds, data platforms, models, and analytics – not tied to a single infrastructure.
- **Over 120 patents** and a two‑decade track record of innovation in data privacy/security.
- **Integrated AI security** – protects data at the layer before AI interacts with it (retrieval, reasoning, output), enabling safe use of enterprise knowledge.
- **Quantum resilience** – preparing for post‑quantum threats (mentioned in career page and CEO bio).

## Strategic Focus
- **Enabling secure AI adoption**: Protecting sensitive data used in AI agents, RAG workflows, training pipelines, and model inferencing.
- **Quantum‑safe security**: Building defenses that remain effective in a post‑quantum era.
- **Expanding platform capabilities**: Continuing to unify discovery, governance, protection, and privacy into a single control plane.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Bold thinking, technical excellence, and a drive to make a global impact" – collaboration, curiosity, continuous learning. [protegrity.com/about-us/careers]
- **Work environment**: Operates in 15 countries; remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but global presence suggests flexibility.
- **Benefits** (varies by region): Medical/dental/vision, 401K/pension, 15–25 days annual leave, paid parental leave, learning & development reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, long‑term disability. [protegrity.com/about-us/careers]
- **Engineering focus**: Work on "cutting edge AI innovation with quantum safe technologies"; technical roles make up 37% of workforce. [LinkedIn]
- **Hiring process**: Human‑reviewed résumés, conversations with hiring manager and senior leadership, final interview with exec. [protegrity.com/about-us/careers]

## Sources
1. [Protegrity Homepage](https://www.protegrity.com/)
2. [Protegrity About Us](https://www.protegrity.com/about-us/our-company)
3. [Protegrity Careers](https://www.protegrity.com/about-us/careers)
4. [Protegrity LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/protegrity)
5. [Protegrity Products](https://www.protegrity.com/product)

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