Job Description

Who is Recruiting from Scratch
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

Title of Role: Senior Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)

Company Stage of Funding: Series B ($56M+ raised, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Gradient Ventures, Accomplice)

Office Type: Hybrid (moving toward 3 days/week in-office)

Salary: $190,000 – $240,000 + Competitive Equity

Visa: No visa sponsorship available

Our client is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity infrastructure companies transforming how businesses achieve and maintain compliance.

Initially built as a market-leading compliance automation platform, the company is now making a major strategic pivot into cybersecurity infrastructure for U.S. federal defense contractors.

They are cash-flow positive, backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Google’s AI Fund, and have seen explosive growth with federal defense now driving the majority of new revenue.

The engineering team is entering a major build phase focused on experimental cybersecurity products and foundational platform infrastructure.

This is a rare opportunity to join a category-defining cybersecurity company at an inflection point as it expands aggressively into federal defense infrastructure.

What You Will Do

• Build full-stack product features end-to-end
• Design and ship experimental cybersecurity products
• Work across frontend and backend systems
• Build foundational platform infrastructure
• Collaborate across product, design, and engineering
• Own projects from architecture through deployment
• Write high-quality scalable production code
• Participate in system design and technical planning
• Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability
• Contribute to product direction and roadmap decisions
• Help establish the growing NYC engineering presence

Ideal Candidate Background

• 4–10 years of software engineering experience
• Strong full-stack engineering background
• Excellent TypeScript experience
• Experience with modern backend OOP languages
• Product-focused engineering mindset
• Startup or high-growth company experience
• Strong ownership mentality
• Experience shipping customer-facing products
• Comfortable moving quickly with ambiguity
• Strong systems design fundamentals
• Located in or willing to relocate to NYC

Preferred Experience

• React
• GraphQL
• Ruby on Rails
• Node.js
• Rust
• Series A–C startup experience
• Security / cybersecurity exposure
• Defense tech interest
• Mentorship experience
• Cross-functional product ownership

Strong Signals

• CS degree from top-30 program
• Promotions / strong upward career trajectory
• Product ownership end-to-end
• Series A–C startup experience
• Long tenure / commitment patterns
• Strong technical breadth
• Experience building customer-facing systems
• Excitement for defense cybersecurity mission

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $190,000 – $240,000
• Competitive equity
• Relocation assistance potential
• Hybrid NYC engineering presence
• High ownership and product scope
• Mentorship opportunities
• Strong growth trajectory
• Work on cutting-edge cybersecurity infrastructure

Why Join

This is an opportunity to join one of the strongest cybersecurity companies at a major product inflection point.

You’ll help build the next generation of cybersecurity tooling for the U.S. federal defense industrial base while working at a company with elite investors, strong revenue traction, and meaningful product-market fit.

If you’re excited by high-ownership engineering work, product building, and the opportunity to shape a major strategic company pivot, this is a standout role.