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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Prophet Security'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Prophet Security

- **Company:** Prophet Security
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prophet-security/021da6e5-4e31-4f51-ad1a-d8127b4260d8

## Job description

We are looking for candidates from all levels of experience

Fully Remote or Hybrid options available

## ABOUT US

At Prophet Security, we're not just building a platform that automates complex security tasks – we're building a company where every team member has a direct impact on customer success. As a member of our team, you'll have the unique opportunity to work closely with our customers, understand their needs, and see firsthand how your work is making a difference.

If you're passionate about building impactful products, working in a collaborative environment, and gaining valuable experience in a fast-growing startup, we encourage you to apply.

Prophet Security’s founding team brings over 30 years of cybersecurity experience from leading companies including Abnormal Security, Expel, Mandiant, McAfee, Oracle, Red Canary, Red Hat, Riverbed, and Symantec. We are now focused on disrupting the $400B security labor market by building the future of automated security operations.

## WHAT OUR PLATFORM DOES

Our platform analyzes alerts, develops and executes investigation plans, and provides detailed findings and actionable recommendations. Analysts review these investigations, adding context and feedback that are continuously incorporated into future automation.

## THE IMPACT YOU’LL HAVE

We are looking for Software Engineers who will own and evolve the core backend systems that power Prophet’s platform. You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the services that ingest, process, and reason over large volumes of security data, where some example projects might include:

- Integration at scale: Designing extensible frameworks that make it easy to add and operate integrations with third-party security systems (e.g., SIEMs, EDR/XDR, identity providers, cloud and SaaS logs).
- Proof-of-Value (PoV) pipelines: Building performant, reliable backends that enable fast customer onboarding and compelling PoV experiences, from data ingestion through actionable insights.
- Security data platforms: Designing storage, indexing, and access patterns for highly dimensional, time-oriented security data to support real-time analysis and historical investigation.

You will write production code, lead technical design, mentor engineers, and partner closely with Product, ML, and Security domain experts to solve complex distributed‑systems problems.

Our tech stack: AI-powered agents, data synthesis and correlation, security tool integration, Python, Go, React, and Typescript.

## REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of software engineering experience.
- A passion for building high-quality products and a strong customer focus.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar.
- Experience building and deploying scalable Backend Services.
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles and best practices.
- Proficiency in one or more relevant languages (e.g., Go, Python).
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a detail-oriented mindset.
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a team.

## OUR CULTURE

Our employees are recognized as our top asset and we provide great benefits, meaningful equity participation, as well as a fun and inspiring environment to create and collaborate.

- Customer Centricity: Focus on exceeding customer expectations and placing them at the core of decisions
- Practicality over Perfection: Emphasis on efficient solutions and agile decision-making
- Strive for Excellence: Commitment to high standards and continuous improvement
- Transparent Communication: Encouragement of open, honest dialogue and collaborative trust
- Unwavering Resilience: Determination to overcome challenges and persist in achieving goals
- Have Fun: Foster a positive work environment that balances hard work with enjoyment and creativity

## ENVIRONMENT

Prophet Security takes pride in being an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications and business needs.

## About Prophet Security

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Prophet Security delivers an Agentic AI SOC Platform that autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to security alerts using reasoning agents that mimic senior analysts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Menlo Park, California, USA (with offices in Solihull, England and remote team members in Germany, Czechia, and Canada) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity) | [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/prophet-security)
- **Founded**: 2024 (some sources cite 2023) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity) | [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/prophetsecurity/__kJs_oWGhcSlK1rmcWvyLCq8cSEVT3gEKFjNCQyhVS5c)
- **Founders**: Kamal Shah (CEO) and Vibhav Sreekanti (CTO) [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Computer and Network Security (AI-powered Security Operations)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – Enterprise SOC teams (Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 analysts)
- **Mission**: “Redefine what’s possible for modern SOCs — making them faster, smarter, and more resilient.” [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Prophet AI SOC Platform**: An agentic AI platform that autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to alerts. It summarizes alerts, retrieves data, determines severity, prioritizes threats, and executes remediation. Includes bi-directional integrations with existing workflows and case management tools. [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/)
  - **Prophet AI SOC Analyst**: Agent that mimics a senior analyst’s investigation process – asks probing questions, pivots across the tech stack, gathers evidence, and provides 100% transparency (shows reasoning plan, queries, and evidence). [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/)
  - **Agentic AI Threat Hunter**: Continuously monitors for emerging threats, supports natural-language hunts (“Are we impacted?”), and provides a curated library of pre-codified hunt templates. [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: **$41M total funding** (Seed $11M led by Bain Capital Ventures in 2024; Series A $30M led by Accel in 2025; additional venture round in 2026 with Amex Ventures and Citi Ventures) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity) | [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/prophetsecurity/__kJs_oWGhcSlK1rmcWvyLCq8cSEVT3gEKFjNCQyhVS5c)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Amex Ventures, Citi Ventures [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 224% YoY (from ~13 to 69 employees), reducing investigation times from 30–40 minutes to 3 minutes, eliminating 99% of false positives, and scaling to multiple geographic locations. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI that reasons like a senior analyst** – not just a chatbot; plans and executes complete investigations.
- **100% transparency** – shows every step of reasoning, queries used, and evidence gathered, building trust with SOC teams.
- **Continuous adaptation** – agents learn from analyst feedback and organizational context to reduce noise over time.
- **Bi-directional integrations** (not just alert ingestion) with existing tools, enabling full lifecycle support.
- **Pre-built threat hunter library** – codified threat intelligence ready to deploy immediately.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale enterprise adoption of the agentic SOC platform.
- Deepen integrations with the broader security and case management tool ecosystem.
- Expand proactive threat hunting and autonomous remediation capabilities.
- Maintain a high bar for transparency and trust as AI agents take on more critical tasks.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Transparent Communication, Unwavering Resilience, Have Fun, Customer Centricity, Strive for Excellence, and Practicality over Perfection. [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us)
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid (offices in Menlo Park, CA and Solihull, England) with remote-friendly options. Roles listed as “Remote or Hybrid.” [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/prophet-security)
- **Perks**: Health insurance, 401(k), generous PTO, paid sick days, parental leave, free snacks/drinks. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/prophet-security)
- **Engineering Culture**: “You’ll get to work with some of the most talented engineers in the world and build something truly unique.” Team includes former engineers from Google, Meta, Red Hat, Rapid7, and others. [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity)

## Sources
1. [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/ – Product overview)
2. [prophetsecurity.ai](https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/about-us – Team, mission, values)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prophetsecurity – Company details, funding, headcount)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/prophet-security – Perks, offices, work policy)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/prophetsecurity/__kJs_oWGhcSlK1rmcWvyLCq8cSEVT3gEKFjNCQyhVS5c – Funding timeline, competitors)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prophet-security – Open roles)

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