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title: 'Software Engineer II at Teleskope'
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# Software Engineer II at Teleskope

- **Company:** Teleskope
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/teleskope/6d9bb498-e358-4c46-91f5-6e452cf9f0fb

## Job description

## About Teleskope

Teleskope is redefining data security for the AI era. Our platform uses AI to learn the context of a business, filter out the noise, and enforce remediation directly, resolving sensitive data exposure in seconds. We are backed by top-tier investors and growing quickly, with customers that include Ramp, Notion, The Atlantic, Petco, and Chevron Phillips.

## About the role

This is one of the hardest, most important problems in security right now, as companies adopt AI faster than they can protect the data behind it. You'll own features end to end on the core of the platform, alongside a talented group of engineers with deep expertise in distributed systems, ML, and scale. Great security doesn't slow a company down, it makes moving fast safe. That's what you'll build.

## What you'll do

- Own customer-facing features end to end, from design decisions to daily use at companies like Polymarket and The Atlantic
- Turn ambiguous problems into shipped features, and own how they get built
- Debug live production systems and solve problems that only exist at petabyte scale
- Take on the hardest problems in data security, from architecture to implementation
- Raise the bar for the team through code review, design feedback, and mentoring engineers earlier in their careers

## About you

- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong back-end skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language
- Solid background in databases, data modeling, and schema design
- You take open-ended problems, drive them to clarity, and ship the solution to production
- You use AI tools to move faster, and you want to get better at using them well
- Frontend experience a plus
- Must be based in NYC and able to work from our Financial District office 3 days a week

## What you'll get

- An opportunity to join an early stage startup in one of today's fastest growing markets
- Room to learn, grow, and rapidly advance in your career as a software engineer
- A beautiful, well-stocked office in NYC’s Financial District
- Flexible vacation and work from home days
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Health, vision, dental, 401k and more benefits, heavily subsidized by Teleskope

## About Teleskope

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Teleskope provides an automated data security platform that uses a Data Reasoning Layer to detect, classify, and remediate sensitive data exposure in real time, enabling safe AI adoption.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-backed; Seed + Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Elizabeth Nammour (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data security / cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprise and mid-market organizations (e.g., fintech, financial services, media)
- **Mission or purpose**: To automate data security so teams can move fast while keeping data governed, especially as AI tools are adopted.

## Products & Services
- **Teleskope Platform**: An agentic data security platform that autonomously scans, catalogs, and classifies data in motion and at rest. It enforces remediation (block, quarantine, redact, notify, delete) natively without handoffs to third-party tools. The Data Reasoning Layer understands business context (e.g., chemical IP vs. hospital PHI) to reduce noise and enforce least-privilege access.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $32.2M (Seed round in April 2024, Series A of $25M in November 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: M13, Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau (lead investors); also AirAngels, Correlation Ventures, CyLon Ventures, Essence Global
- **Growth Signals**: Trusted by organizations including Ramp, LegalZoom, Alloy, GoFundMe, and The Atlantic. The Atlantic reported a 95% reduction in time spent on data deletions. Headcount grew from ~29 (PitchBook) to 37 total employees (Built In), with 24 in product + tech roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Native remediation** – resolves exposure within the same platform (no SOAR handoffs), providing a full audit trail and reversibility.
- **Context-aware classification** – learns each organization’s unique risk profile and workflows, filtering out noise.
- **Speed and coverage** – two-second detection, 100% data coverage, 10x faster issue resolution than manual processes.
- **Agentic approach** – autonomously maps what AI tools and copilots can access, preventing sensitive data from reaching external LLMs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enable responsible AI adoption** by giving security teams automated guardrails so employees can use AI tools without exposing sensitive data.
- **Reduce manual work** – shift security teams from alert triage to investigation and advisory by automating remediation and enforcing retention policies, cutting storage costs and legal exposure.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a place where people can do their best work and feel proud of the impact they make every day. Emphasis on building “more than software.”
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – team is on-site in New York City Tuesday through Thursday each week; 24/7 office access; employees encouraged to come in on Mondays and Fridays if they choose.
- **Tech stack**: Python, Go, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Azure, GCP, PostgreSQL, Pandas, D3.js. Engineers work across the full stack.
- **Team size**: ~37 total employees, with 24 in product + tech (as of mid-2026).
- **Perks**: Modern NYC HQ, offsite events, and a collaborative engineering culture.

## Sources
1. [teleskope.ai](https://www.teleskope.ai/)
2. [teleskope.ai/company/careers](https://www.teleskope.ai/company/careers)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/teleskope)
4. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/507341-89)

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