Senior Software Engineer

🇮🇳In-Person - Bangalore, India₹2M–₹4.5M/yri3h ago

Corporate Engineering Software Engineering Full Stack Development Cloud Computing Backend Development Cybersecurity

Role Snapshot

Senior Software Engineer at KnowBe4, a leading digital workforce security company, responsible for developing and enhancing the platform that secures AI agents and humans against advanced threats including social engineering and prompt injection attacks.

Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain software components for KnowBe4's security platform; collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement features for attack simulation, training, and agent security powered by AIDA and proprietary Risk Score technology.

Skills & Tools: Strong proficiency in software engineering fundamentals, system design, and cloud technologies; expertise in security concepts, API development, and familiarity with behavioral data analysis and threat detection systems.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of professional software development experience; proven track record building scalable enterprise security solutions.

Location: In-Person - Bangalore, India

Compensation: ₹2M–₹4.5M/yr (estimated)

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Job Description

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

Please submit your resume in English.

This individual in this role is responsible for developing new and exciting products for KnowBe4’s customers, alongside other engineers in a fast-paced, agile development environment.

Responsibilities:

Develops software using the KnowBe4 Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies
Recommends solutions to engineering problems
Assist other team members by providing technical direction
Defines approaches and solutions to complex technical problems
Helps to translate KnowBe4's strategic goals into operational plans
Provides coordination across functional boundaries
May act as team lead for sub-projects

Requirements:

BS or equivalent plus 8 years experience
MS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
Ph.D. or equivalent plus 2 years experience
Training in secure coding practices (preferred)

Skills:

Python, SQL, GraphQL, React, Typescript
Postgress, Athena
IaC (Terraform)
AWS Services - Glue, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, IAM, VPC, Cloudwatch, AppSync
DataDog or other telemetry instrumentation tools
LaunchDarkly or similar tools
Understanding of Data privacy/multi-tenancy

Nice to Have:

Redshift, Apache Spark/PySpark
OpenSearch

Our Fantastic Benefits

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits.

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.

No recruitment agencies, please.