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Software Engineer - Backend (Agents)

Greylock Partners
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/16/2026

One of our investments is seeking a generalist engineer (backend spike or customer spike) to join their small team with a powerful mission. You'll be working with customers and cross-functional partners to build the core product and the role will include leveraging the latest AI technologies.


Founders: Founded by proven cybersecurity leaders with prior $3B companies they built from scratch. Experts in their domain and track record of selling into the toughest CISO orgs

Domain: Cybersecurity, AI

Stage: Series A

Team size: 130

Location: Boston, Back. Bay

Role: Backend engineer


Ideal Qualifications

  • 4 yrs of experience building backend systems, ideally from scratch to scale.
  • Experience building and optimizing core product infrastructure (AWS)
  • Experience with data infrastructure (metadata uploads, databricks setup etc.)
  • CS degree or equivalent


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About Greylock:

Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable companies including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, Palo Alto Networks, among others. More can be found about us here: https://greylock.com/


About the Greylock Recruiting team and me:

As full-time, salaried employees of Greylock, our team provides free candidate referrals/introductions to our active investments to help them grow/succeed (as one of the many services we provide). Our recruiting team, combined, has over 125 years of in-house recruiting experience at successful startups through FAANG’s and over 30 years of VC Talent.


How We Work:

I will contact anyone who looks like a potential match--requesting to schedule a call with you immediately. Once contacted, I'll explain our VC Recruiting model, spend some time getting to know you better, and will discuss various startup opportunities within our portfolio with you as well.

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