Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Innovation
SpyCloud · Austin, Texas
- On site
- Austin, Texas
About the role
SpyCloud is on a mission to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. SpyCloud’s solutions thwart cyberattacks and protect more than 4 billion accounts worldwide. Cybersecurity is an exciting, evolving space, and being at the forefront of the fight to disrupt cybercrime makes SpyCloud a special place to work. If you’re driven to align your career with a fantastic mission, look no further!
*Our ideal candidate will be hybrid (two days per week) out of our Austin, Texas office. We will also consider remote, Texas-based candidates who can come to the office 2-3 times per quarter*
Overview of Job/Team:
We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive AI innovation across SpyCloud by exploring emerging technologies, rapidly prototyping new ideas, and turning successful experiments into scalable capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization. This highly autonomous role requires deep expertise in modern AI systems, agentic workflows, and graph-based technologies, along with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence technical strategy, and communicate complex concepts clearly to both technical and business stakeholders. Working closely with engineering, product, data science, investigations, and executive leadership, you will help shape SpyCloud’s AI strategy and accelerate the adoption of transformative technologies across our products and operations.
What You'll Do
- Drive AI innovation across SpyCloud by identifying, evaluating, and applying emerging technologies in AI, agents, and knowledge systems.
- Rapidly prototype new products, workflows, and capabilities to validate technical feasibility and business value.
- Architect and build scalable AI systems that combine LLMs, graph technologies, proprietary intelligence, and cloud-native services.
- Partner with product, engineering, data science, and executive leadership to transform successful prototypes into production-ready capabilities.
- Develop reusable frameworks, tools, and reference architectures that enable teams across SpyCloud to leverage AI effectively.
- Evaluate and benchmark emerging models, agent frameworks, and AI tooling, providing technical guidance on adoption and best practices.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy through hands-on leadership, clear communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level.
- Proven track record of independently driving ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from concept through adoption.
- Deep hands-on experience building applications powered by LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and modern AI tooling.
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype, iterate, and validate new ideas while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale graph databases or knowledge graph systems at scale (Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph, JanusGraph, or similar).
- Strong software engineering and systems design skills, including experience building distributed cloud-native applications, preferably in AWS.
- Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable balancing exploratory innovation with production-quality engineering and long-term platform thinking.
Nice to Have
- Experience building cybersecurity, fraud detection, identity intelligence, or threat intelligence systems.
- Experience with knowledge graphs, entity resolution, and large-scale relationship analytics.
- Experience building developer platforms, internal frameworks, or shared infrastructure adopted across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation, observability, benchmarking, and governance practices.
- Experience working with large-scale data platforms containing billions of entities and relationships.
Base Salary Range: $155,000 – $233,000
The salary range reflects the expected base compensation for a fully qualified candidate at this level based on experience, qualifications, and market data at the time of posting.
U.S.-Based Benefits + Perks (for Full Time Employees):
At SpyCloud, we are committed to working alongside individuals who are equally passionate about preventing cybercrime, regardless of their department or role. Guided by our core values in all business decisions, we prioritize unity in our mission and ensure all SpyCloud employees have the support and benefits they need to stay focused on our goals. In addition to our engaging workspace in South Austin, flexible and remote-friendly work options, and competitive salary package, we offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- 401(k) with Employer Contribution
- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) available with Employer Contribution
- Employer Paid Life, Short-term, and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Generous PTO Plan and 16 paid holidays per year
U.K.-Based Benefits + Perks (for Full Time Employees):
- Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
- Employer Provided Private Health Insurance and Healthcare Cashplan
- Employer Paid Life Insurance and Income Replacement
- Generous Holiday Plan and 14 paid holidays per year
About SpyCloud:
SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions use advanced analytics and AI to accelerate investigations and protect workforce, consumer, and supplier identities from the threats that matter most: authentication bypass, session hijacking, malicious insiders, account takeover, ransomware, and fraud. Its data from malware-infected devices, successful phishes, combolists, and third-party breaches also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings. Customers include 7 of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to more than 250 cybersecurity experts whose mission is to protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now.
To learn more and see insights on your company's exposed data, visit spycloud.com.
Our Mission:
Our mission is to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. Together with our customers and partners, we aim to end criminals’ ability to profit from stolen information.
Who We Are:
SpyCloud is a place for innovative, collaborative, and problem-solvers to thrive. Individually, we’re amazing, but together, we’re unstoppable. We celebrate diversity and various perspectives and aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment for all. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. SpyCloud complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
SpyCloud expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment. Improper interference with the ability of SpyCloud's employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge. SpyCloud shares the right to work and participates in the E-Verify program in all locations.
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Our Culture:
Our culture is something really special. We’re all driven to disrupt the cybercriminal economy as we keep customer accounts safe from compromise. We support a truly worthy and serious mission, but we have fun doing it together. If you are driven, inventive, and collaborative, you’ll fit right in.
SpyCloud’s Recruitment Policy:
We will never ask an applicant for sensitive or personal financial information during the recruitment process. We advise all applicants seeking employment with SpyCloud to review available information on recruitment fraud. Anyone who suspects that they have been contacted by someone falsely representing SpyCloud should email careers@spycloud.com.
Compensation Transparency Policy:
At SpyCloud, we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. We strive to ensure that all employees are fairly compensated for their contributions, and we openly discuss our compensation philosophy and structure. We are committed to providing competitive salaries and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent, and we encourage open dialogue and feedback regarding compensation matters.
Learn more and apply: SpyCloud Careers
SpyCloud is not sponsoring visas at this time.
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For applicants residing in the UK, please click here to read SpyCloud's Employee Privacy Notice.
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