Senior Software Engineer- Backend (Product & Cloud Security)

About the role

Yoodli helps people get measurably better in their careers. We help individuals achieve this by helping them land their job, onboard at their companies, learn new skills, practice a speech, sales pitch or difficult conversation, and then take your Yoodli coach with you from one role to the next. For organizations, this means helping you upskill your entire workforce for the AI Future.

We've always believed in the human potential. In 2021, Esha and Varun started Yoodli as an AI communication coach - to help people communicate with confidence. Since then, our users have used Yoodli for so much more: to learn new concepts through AI Roleplays, practice different kinds of conversations (sales pitches, job interviews, manager conversations), and even use Yoodli as their personal coach to help them learn to use Gemini, Claude or other AI Tools. It's why we expanded our technology to be the AI Platform for Human Skills.

What you'll work on

• Authentication, authorization, access controls
• Data isolation and data loss prevention
• Active threat monitoring and defenses
• Secrets management, key rotation, and secure-by-default patterns other engineers build on
• Vulnerability and dependency management
• Audit logging and the data plumbing behind customer security and privacy requirements

What we're hoping you bring

• Mission alignment: You believe in our vision and care deeply about helping people achieve more by communicating better
• Backend expertise: You have strong experience building scalable, reliable backend services that power great user experiences
• A security mindset: You think in terms of trust boundaries, blast radius, and failure modes without being asked to. You've been the person on a team who catches the thing everyone else missed
• Pragmatism: You right-size solutions. Security that grinds the company to a halt isn't good security - you know how to pick the controls that matter and skip the theater
• Craft and quality: You hold yourself to a high bar for code quality and system design, and you make the engineers around you better

About you

• 5+ years of professional development experience, shipping production code
• Strong backend capabilities: you've owned services end-to-end and have a track record of delivering in fast-moving environments
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, or equivalent languages - with the ability to debug complex distributed systems
• Experience applying security fundamentals in a professional environment, and the judgment to apply them proportionally
• Clear communicator who works well across engineering, product, and compliance, and who gives and receives feedback well
• You understand how your work connects to business outcomes and user impact
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Ability to be on-site in our Seattle, WA office 3 days a week (M, T, Th)

Extra credit experience

• Building in support of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar) as an engineer
• Multi-tenant SaaS at enterprise scale
• NoSQL databases and Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform
• Responding to enterprise security questionnaires or customer security reviews

What's in it for you?

• Huge impact opportunity: Define technical strategy and build foundational systems at a fast-growing startup. Work directly with the founding team and shape the future of the AI platform for human skills
• Competitive compensation: Significant equity opportunities at a venture-backed company
• Base compensation: $160k - $190k