Pindrop is the Real Human + Right Human® Identity Trust Platform for the AI era. As AI-driven fraud and deepfakes erode trust in digital communication, Pindrop delivers continuous identity verification and deepfake detection across voice, video, and digital interactions in real time.
Enterprises rely on Pindrop to secure billions of high-risk customer interactions each year, including top U.S. banks, as well as leading insurers and healthcare providers. Powered by models trained on more than 1.5 billion real-world interactions annually and protected by 300+ patents, Pindrop restores trust while reducing fraud, lowering operational costs, and improving customer experience.
Recognized by TIME as one of 2025’s Best Inventions and by Inc. for Best in Business for Innovation, Pindrop is backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Capture team, you will play a critical role in building and evolving systems that ingest and process communication data across telephony and modern meeting platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Google Meet. You will design and develop systems that capture, process, and prepare audio and video streams for downstream analysis, enabling new product capabilities within the Pindrop platform. This role requires strong experience with real-time media systems, and a focus on building scalable, high-performance, and reliable solutions.
More specifically, you will:
- Software Development: Design, develop, test, and maintain complex software systems that ingest and process real-time and recorded audio/video streams. Build and evolve scalable media pipelines that are reliable, performant, and optimized for low-latency processing within the Pindrop platform.
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers and the development team, including code reviews, architecture decisions, and mentoring.
- Architecture and Design: Contribute to the architecture of distributed systems that support high-throughput media ingestion and processing, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and maintainability. Help define patterns for real-time and asynchronous media workflows.
- Problem Solving: Analyze and solve complex technical problems, and make recommendations for improvements and optimizations.
- Quality Assurance: Implement and advocate for best practices in testing and quality assurance, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing.
- Code Review: Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and consistency.
- Research and Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and programming languages and apply them where relevant to improve software development processes.
- Security and Compliance: Ensure software adheres to security standards and compliance requirements, addressing vulnerabilities and potential risks.
- You are resilient in the face of challenges, change, and ambiguity
- You are optimistic and believe that you can make a problem into a solutionYou are resourceful, excited to uncover innovative solutions and teach yourself something new when needed
- You take accountability, do the things you say you’ll do, under-promise and over-deliver
- You are a strong problem-solver with excellent analytical skills.
- You are an owner and enjoy taking on project leadership as well as mentorship
- You are a strong verbal and written communicator
- Experience with real-time communication systems, including VoIP, SIP, RTP, or WebRTC
- Experience working with audio and/or video processing pipelines, codecs, or streaming technologies
- Experience building and operating microservices and REST/gRPC APIs
- Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and debugging distributed systems
- Experience with security best practices and compliance requirements in cloud environments
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD or similar deployment tools)
As a Pindropper, you join a rapidly growing company making technology more human with the power of voice. You will work alongside some of the best and brightest. We’re a passionate group committed to excellence - but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying the journey as a team with chess and poker tournaments, catered lunches and happy hours, wellness programming, and more. Because we take our jobs seriously, we add in time for rest with Unlimited PTO, Focus Thursday, and Company-wide Rest Days.
What we offerAs a part of Pindrop, you’ll have a direct impact on our growing list of products and the future of security in the voice-driven economy. We hire great people and take care of them. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits we offer:
- Competitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees, so everyone shares in our long-term success.
- Remote-first environment - giving you flexibility and autonomy in how you structure your day.
- While we work flexibly, we prioritize meaningful in-person moments through regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings that foster connection, collaboration, and shared success.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Generous health and welfare plans to choose from - including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan!
- Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution
- Low-cost vision and dental plans for you and your family, providing comprehensive coverage and peace of mind.
- Paid Parental Leave - Including birth, adoptive & foster parents
- One year of diaper delivery for your newest addition to the family! It’s our way of welcoming new Pindroplets to the family!
- Recurring monthly phone and internet allowance to help cover essential connectivity costs and support flexible work.
- Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits to support family-building journeys and personalized health needs.
- Annual Learning & Development stipend to support your professional growth, skill-building, certifications, and continued education.
This position will be posted for 30 days after 05/05/26
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Please note that the base pay range is a general guideline only. Pindrop considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills, as well as market and business considerations, when extending an offer.
We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.
AI - A Transformative ForceAt Pindrop, we view artificial intelligence as a transformative force that, when harnessed responsibly, can unlock unprecedented value for our customers, partners and society and enable and empower us to continue to deliver cutting-edge technology to combat fraud and unblur the lines between what it means to be human versus machine.
Pindrop may use AI tools to help prioritize job applications for human review. The AI tool may analyze your work experience and skills to assess fit for the role, but does not consider your name or contact details. Applications with the strongest match to job requirements are prioritized for human review; not all applications may be individually reviewed.
Pindrop is an Equal Opportunity EmployerHere at Pindrop, it is our mission to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, marital and/or veteran status.
What We Do
Pindrop® solutions are leading the way to the future of voice by establishing the standard for security, identity, and trust for every voice interaction. Pindrop solutions protect some of the biggest banks, insurers, and retailers in the world using patented technology that extracts an unrivaled amount of intelligence from every call encountered. Pindrop solutions help detect fraudsters and authenticate callers, reducing fraud and operational costs, while improving customer experience and protecting brand reputation. Pindrop solutions have been implemented in 8 of the top 10 US banks and 5 of the top 7 US life insurers. Additionally, 70% of Pindrop US customers are Fortune 500. Pindrop, a privately held company, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, was founded in 2011 and is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, CapitalG, GV, and IVP. For more information, please visit pindrop.com.
