Engineering Lead

Who We Are! Back in 2019, spiderSilk was born with a bold idea: build a regional, sovereign cybersecurity IP that could stand tall on the global stage. Our mission? To shake up the way organizations protect their ever-changing digital worlds with continuous, intelligent, and autonomous security that doesn’t miss a beat. We’re a global mix of curious minds, problem-solvers, and passionate builders, all united by one goal: making the internet a safer place for everyone. Around here, we thrive on vision, energy, and a strong sense of ownership. If this feels like your kind of crew, you’ll probably fit right in. About the role Past projects you would have led: • Building AI Autonomous Agentic production-ready framework • Optimizing the latency of complex database queries in SQL DB or Elastic • Adding Redis queues and a worker container to our stack to execute async tasks • Come up with a new architecture for our ingestion pipeline with the goal to increase throughput and cut cost • Building SDKs or APIs with high focus on DX Requirements You should be familiar with a majority of these but we trust that you can pick up a new tech stack quickly. • AI Agents frameworks - Agno, CrewAI, Langchain • Backend in Java Spring, Python FastAPI / Flask / Django • Elastic, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, S3 • Kafka • Frontend in React Typescript Qualifications • Experience in maintenance of highly reliable and scaling infrastructure as well as building AI Agents scalable and production-ready solutions (with context engineering, evals, monitoring) • Strong leadership skills • 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development • Enthusiastic about leveraging AI in product development • Hard worker and thrive working and leading a small and accountable team • Previous startup or founding experience Bonus • Experience with or interest in API, SDK design and DX • AI experience • Impressive achievements from previous careers or side projects