About Zettasoft Zettasoft is a software development company with offices in New York and Cairo. We solve business problems with technology, partnering with clients to design and build modern, AI-enabled platforms that move their business forward. You can learn more at zettasoft.com.
About the Role We are building the next generation Cybersecurity Management Platform — a product that unifies security posture and response workflows into a single pane of glass, with LLM-powered automation at its core. We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and build the services that power it. You will own backend systems end-to-end: from API design and data modeling, to LLM-orchestrated workflows, to production deployment on a modern container platform. You will write code, set the bar for engineering quality, and shape how AI coding agents are used inside our team. This is a high-ownership role for an engineer who genuinely enjoys shipping secure, well-tested software and wants to work on a product where security correctness is a feature, not an afterthought.
What You'll Do• Design, build, and operate backend services in Python using Django and Fast API for our cybersecurity management platform.• Architect LLM-powered features using the Anthropic or Open AI APIs — prompts, tool use, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and cost/latency controls.• Design clean, well-documented REST and async APIs and the data models behind them; make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, simplicity, and long-term maintainability.• Build and operate services as part of a modern microservices architecture, deployed as containers (Docker) and orchestrated with Kubernetes or equivalent.• Write secure code by default: apply OWASP Top 10 thinking to every endpoint, review peers' code for security flaws, and partner with security stakeholders on threat modeling.• Use Claude Code, Codex, or similar AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow — delegating to them where it accelerates quality, and knowing when not to.• Own your services in production: observability, SLOs, on-call, incident response, and continuous improvement.• Raise the engineering bar through code review, design review, mentorship of junior engineers, and thoughtful technical writing.

What We're Looking For Must-haves• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building production services in Python.• Strong hands-on experience with both Django and Fast API — you understand when to reach for each and why.• Shipped features that integrate LLMs (Anthropic or Open AI) into real products — not just demos. You have opinions on prompt design, tool/function calling, evaluations, and controlling cost and latency in production.• You write secure code by default and are deeply familiar with the OWASP Top 10 — injection, broken access control, SSRF, insecure deserialization, and the rest. You spot these in code review without being asked.• Experience designing and operating modern microservices architectures with container-based deployment (Docker + Kubernetes or equivalent).• You actively use and embrace AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, or similar — and can speak to how they have changed the way you ship code.• Strong grounding in relational databases (Postgre SQL), async patterns, testing, and production observability.• Deep knowledge of REST API design — resource modeling, versioning, pagination, error semantics, idempotency — and a point of view on where REST stops being the right tool.• Hands-on experience authoring Open API (Swagger) specifications — using them for contract-first design, client and server code generation, and keeping documentation honest as the API evolves.• Dev Ops experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines — Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, or equivalent — with automated testing, security scanning, and progressive deployment to production.• Clear written and verbal communication in English; comfortable collaborating across time zones with our New York team.
Nice-to-haves• Prior experience in the cybersecurity domain: SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, cloud security, or compliance automation.• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS, SQS) and workflow orchestration (Temporal, Celery, Airflow).• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, or agentic systems in production.• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform), cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and secure SDLC practices.• Contributions to open-source Python or security tooling.

What We Offer• A senior seat on a small, high-ownership team building a greenfield platform — your architectural decisions will matter for years.• A codebase where AI-assisted engineering is a first-class practice, not an afterthought.• Competitive compensation, meaningful scope, and a genuine voice in how the product and the engineering org are built.• Fully remote work from anywhere in Egypt.• A full-time role on a one-year renewable contract — with the clear expectation of long-term continuation for the right person, as the platform is a multi-year commitment.

How to Apply Send your résumé/CV, a link to code you are proud of (Git Hub, a production service you led, or a non-trivial side project), and a short note on one LLM-powered feature you have shipped — what was hard about it, and what you would do differently next time — to [اضغط هنا لمشاهدة البريد اﻹلكتروني]. Zettasoft is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate applicants on the strength of their work and their fit for the role, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds.