At Prophet Security, we're building an AI-native security operations platform that accelerates detection, investigation, and response. Our founding team brings over 30 years of cybersecurity experience from Abnormal Security, Expel, Mandiant, McAfee, and more. We're focused on disrupting the $400B security labor market by building the future of automated security operations — and we're looking for engineers who want to build the foundation that makes it all possible.
About the RoleThe Platform team owns the infrastructure, tooling, and engineering systems that every product team at Prophet depends on. As a Platform Software Engineer focused on Developer Productivity, you'll be the person who unblocks the rest of engineering: improving our deploy cadence, hardening our test infrastructure, and building the scaffolding for an AI-native development lifecycle.
This is a high-leverage, cross-cutting role. You'll work closely with the rest of the Platform team and product engineering teams to identify root causes behind developer friction and deployment blockers, build lasting fixes, and raise the quality bar across the entire codebase.
What You'll DoBuild and mature our testing infrastructure — establish patterns, frameworks, and tooling for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing across services
Own the CI/CD pipeline end-to-end — design, implement, and continuously improve build, test, and deployment pipelines to double our deploy frequency
Act as a force multiplier for engineering — remove bottlenecks, standardize best practices, and improve the day-to-day developer experience across the company
Champion reliability and observability — help establish SLOs, alerting, and monitoring across the platform; use instrumentation, data, and automation to drive decisions on system health and engineering velocity
Collaborate with product, engineering, and security partners — be an embedded partner for Core Product squads, embedding safety, reliability, and scalability into everyday development practices
Required
5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering
Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD systems at scale (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, or similar)
Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go, with the ability to write production-quality backend code
Experience building automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E) for distributed systems
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong debugging instincts - you can trace failures across distributed systems and identify root causes systematically
Proven ability to work cross-functionally, aligning stakeholders and driving adoption of shared tooling, workflows, and standards
Clear written and verbal communication; you can explain technical tradeoffs to both engineers and non-engineers
Nice to Have
Experience in a startup environment, ideally Series A/B stage
Exposure to AI/ML workloads or LLM-powered systems
Background in security or experience building security tooling
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
Familiarity with observability stacks (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
We provide great benefits, meaningful equity, and a fun, inspiring environment. Our values:
Customer Centricity: We place customers at the core of our decisions.
Practicality over Perfection: We value efficient solutions and agile decision-making.
Strive for Excellence: We are committed to high standards and continuous improvement.
Transparent Communication: We encourage open, honest dialogue and trust.
Have Fun: We foster a positive environment that balances hard work with enjoyment.
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What We Do
Prophet Security delivers the industry’s most comprehensive Agentic AI SOC Platform, purpose‑built to transform how security operations work. Our platform autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to alerts, eliminating repetitive manual work and enabling teams to focus on what matters most: defending against real threats. By automating the time‑intensive investigative tasks that bog down analysts, Prophet AI dramatically improves SOC efficiency, accelerates response times, and strengthens an organization’s overall security posture. The results speak for themselves: reducing investigation times from 30–40 minutes to just 3, eliminating 99% of false positives, and giving security teams back hundreds of hours each month. With backing from Accel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and leading security practitioners, we are on a mission to redefine what’s possible for modern SOCs — making them faster, smarter, and more resilient.
