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title: 'Software Engineer, Platform at Outtake'
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# Software Engineer, Platform at Outtake

- **Company:** Outtake
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $160k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/outtake/67a35d51-9e10-4803-a7a1-45f581b7f1a8/application

**Skills:** Internal platforms, Developer tooling, Agentic systems, LLM platforms, Large-scale data ingestion pipelines

> Design and maintain the foundational systems, tools, and primitives that enable rapid and safe engineering. Build durable platforms and leverage patterns to improve developer workflows and reliability across the engineering organization.

## Job description

## About Outtake

Outtake exists to empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world. Today, impersonation, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse spread faster than any security team can respond to. So we built something different: an agentic AI platform that proactively detects, monitors, and takes down impersonators, automating protection in hours, not weeks.

Built by ex-Palantir, ex-CTO/founders, and ex-Notion engineers, Outtake is designed for clarity, autonomy, and velocity. Our goal is ambitious: become the trust layer of the modern internet. And we intend to do it with a lean, dense, exceptionally talented team.

Outtake is backed by top-tier investors and operators who believe in our mission and our model. With strong financial footing and a long runway, we prioritize creating an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.

## The Role

This is a platform engineering role. You will own the foundations that product engineers rely on every day, designing and maintaining the systems, tools, and primitives that determine how fast, safely, and confidently the team can ship. Your work directly influences developer workflows, reliability, and day-to-day engineering velocity. You will prioritize work that multiplies impact across the engineering org, turning patterns into platforms and one-off fixes into systems rather than solving the same problem repeatedly. The goal is to make it easier for engineers to move quickly and do the right thing by default. This is a role that expects you to build durable foundations. You will develop and evolve a point of view on how engineers should work, then translate that vision into code and systems — operating comfortably in messy, fast-moving environments and steadily turning them into something more solid without slowing the team down. You'll balance long-term thinking with practical execution.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the foundations that product engineers rely on every day, including the systems, tools, and primitives that shape developer workflows, reliability, and velocity
- Prioritize work that multiplies impact across the engineering org, turning repeated patterns into platforms and one-off fixes into systems
- Develop and evolve a point of view on how engineers should work, then translate that vision into code and durable systems
- Operate in messy, fast-moving environments and steadily turn them into something more solid without slowing the team down
- Build or own internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure that engineers default to
- Remove entire classes of errors through better abstractions rather than one-off fixes
- Build infrastructure that quietly unlocks faster product work across teams
- Become the person other engineers rely on when systems get weird or unclear, and the person leadership turns to when deciding how the platform should evolve next

## What We’re Looking For

- A track record of building and owning foundational systems that other engineers depended on, along with experience living with the consequences of those decisions
- The ability to ramp quickly, operate in ambiguity, and make progress without needing problems fully specified up front
- An understanding of the tension between ideal solutions and velocity, and the judgment to know when to pursue one over the other
- An instinct for leverage, with a preference for systemic fixes over one-off solutions
- A clear point of view on how engineers should work, and the drive to turn that into code, tooling, and defaults
- Experience working closely with other engineers or teams as an enabler, not just as an implementer
- A desire to help define and build the platform's direction, rather than execute against a tightly defined scope and fixed roadmap
- Nice to have: experience building or owning internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure
- Nice to have: experience working on agentic systems, LLM platforms, or large-scale data ingestion pipelines
- Nice to have: a track record of being the person people go to when systems get weird or unclear

Life at Outtake

- Office: For those in NY, we are an in-person team (5 days a week, with flexibility as needed) working out of a stunning waterfront office in Brooklyn. Collaboration, speed, and clarity matter.
- Health: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
- Time Away: Flexible PTO. We trust adults to manage energy, not clock time.
- Culture & Team: Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.

Outtake is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.

## About Outtake

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Outtake provides an autonomous AI agent platform that detects, investigates, and dismantles digital threats like impersonation, fraud, and AI-driven scams for enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Alex Dhillon

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cybersecurity (Digital Risk Protection, Brand Protection, Threat Intelligence)
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise — including major AI labs (e.g., OpenAI), high-growth tech companies (e.g., AppLovin, CashApp), investment firms (e.g., Pershing Square), federal agencies, and luxury retail brands
- Mission or purpose statement: “To empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world” — building a “trust layer for the modern internet”

## Products & Services
- **Digital Trust Platform**: SaaS platform using autonomous AI agents that see, hear, understand, and dismantle digital risk across every surface (web, social, dark web, app stores).
- **Brand Protection**: Detects and removes fake domains, cloned apps, malicious ads, unauthorized resale, trial abuse, and token fraud.
- **Executive Protection**: Identifies threats to executives including deepfakes, doxxing, extortion, venue targeting, and route exposure.
- **Location Protection**: Monitors for coordinated protests, location targeting, and physical threats.
- **Global Signal Network**: A proprietary Reservoir™ of signals that compound over time, making the platform smarter with every threat dismantled.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $56.5M (Series B led by ICONIQ, as of January 2026)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - ARR increased approximately **6x year-over-year**
  - Systems scanned **20 million potential cyberattacks** in the prior year
  - Enterprise customers grew **more than 10x year-over-year**
  - Average takedown time of **14.4 hours** from detection to takedown
  - **99.4%** takedown confirmation rate
  - **100%** network eradication rate
  - Monitors **100+ platforms**, marketplaces, and dark web sources
  - Social takedowns completed in under 24 hours
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: ICONIQ (lead, Series B), CRV (seed & Series A), Section 32 (S32), angel investors including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens, Bill Ackman, Guillermo Rauch, and Bob McGrew.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI vs. Legacy Tools**: Replaces slow, queue-based analyst workflows with autonomous agents that operate in parallel (millions of agents, zero queues, zero tickets).
- **Compound Learning Platform**: The Global Signal Network gets sharper with every threat dismantled — meaning the platform becomes more effective for all customers over time.
- **Speed**: 14 hours from detection to takedown (legacy tools can take 14 days or more).
- **Named a Challenger** by analysts, alongside companies like Check Point, Doppel, and Recorded Future.
- **Top-Tier Customer Base**: Works with the world’s most targeted organizations (OpenAI, AppLovin, Pershing Square), which validates the product against the most sophisticated threats.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth**: Scaling go-to-market teams, particularly in engineering and product, to meet explosive demand (ARR up 6x YoY).
- **Product Expansion**: Deepening the autonomous agent platform to cover more attack surfaces and industries, with a goal of becoming the “trust layer” for the entire internet.
- **Use of Funds**: The $40M Series B is earmarked for growing go-to-market, engineering, and product teams, as well as expanding the agent platform’s capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Trajectory**: 40 employees with 335.3% yearly headcount growth; 13 active job openings across engineering, sales, marketing, and legal.
- **Cutting-Edge Mission**: Work on the forefront of AI-driven cybersecurity, building autonomous agents that fight the most advanced digital threats.
- **Culture of Ownership and Speed**: The company prides itself on “zero queues, zero tickets” and constant next-step pursuit by agents — a philosophy that likely extends to the engineering culture.
- **Team Quality**: Notable talent sources include Palantir, Meta, Oso, and Google. Strong engineering and product leadership.
- **Headquarters & Flexibility**: Based in Brooklyn, NY, with a presence in the UK and Singapore. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible given global team.
- **Impactful Work**: Directly protecting top AI labs, financial institutions, and global brands from nation-state and organized cybercrime operations.

## Sources
1. [outtake.ai](https://www.outtake.ai/)
2. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/outtake)
3. [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/outtake-cyber-openai-ai-raise.html)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/outtaketeam)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/outtake)

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