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Backend Engineer

SproutsAI
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/22/2026
Seed-stage

  • Enterprise Security
  • AI Agents

AI agents are starting to take real actions inside companies — calling APIs, touching production data, executing workflows. Security teams have no way to see what they`re doing, let alone control it. We`re building the runtime that sits between agents and the systems they touch — and helping define a new category in the process.

What you`ll build

You`ll own a major surface area from day one

  • The entity graph — a real-time model of every user, agent, resource, and action across a customer`s environment
  • The integrations layer that keeps it in sync with Okta, AWS, and the rest of the identity and cloud stack
  • The policy and audit APIs that decide, in milliseconds, whether an agent gets to make a call — and prove it later

A policy engine is only as good as the world model it reasons over, so we`re building both. Your code ships to paying customers, not a demo.

You

  • Have built and operated backend systems that real customers depended on
  • Strong in Go or Python or Java
  • Comfortable designing data models under ambiguity — graph experience is a plus
  • Turn vague problems into simple, reliable systems

Bonus

background in security, identity, or infrastructure; experience with agents or tool-calling systems.

Us

Repeat founders, previously in leadership at Lacework and ShiftRight. Backed by tier-1 investors. Small team shipping the first version now.

Comp & logistics

$170–200K base

  • meaningful founding-team equity

San Jose

  • Hybrid

Salary : $170,000 - $200,000

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