Senior Software Engineer - REMOTE
- Salary
- $120,000 - $170,000
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 19 October 2026.
About the role
Company Overview
TENEX.AI's standard text
TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.
We're a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you'll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We're a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI—explore our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our core engineering team. You will take ownership of major product and infrastructure initiatives, working across the stack to build scalable, reliable, and secure systems. In this role, you’ll balance being a strong individual contributor with providing technical guidance to peers, ensuring high standards in code quality, design, and execution.
You’ll collaborate closely with product and design teams, making key technical decisions and helping define how our platform evolves. This is an opportunity to work on challenging engineering problems in security, AI, and distributed systems, while growing into a leadership position as the company scales.
For candidates who embody the rare "10x of 10x" talent, we offer the flexibility of fully remote work. If you are an exceptional, unrivaled force in this role and prefer not to relocate at this time, we encourage you to apply for this remote-first position. Please be aware that the competition for these remote roles is exceptionally fierce, and the standards for selection are significantly higher.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services and APIs.
- Build and maintain intuitive and performant frontend applications.
- Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from architecture through deployment and monitoring.
- Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to define and implement new features.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Participate in design reviews and code reviews, raising the bar for engineering quality.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across the stack and ensure system reliability.
- Contribute to improving engineering processes, tools, and team practices.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and bring new ideas to the team.
Qualifications
Required:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles and best practices.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Python, or equivalent.
- Experience with at least one modern frontend framework (React, Next.js, TypeScript, or similar).
- Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
- Proven ability to take ownership of complex projects and deliver them end-to-end.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Desired (While experience in all is not required, any of the following would be a plus):
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Exposure to AI/ML concepts and technologies, such as:
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
- Vector Databases
- Experience working in an early-stage startup environment.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- GCP certifications such as Professional Cloud Developer or Professional Data Engineer are a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and Google SecOps solutions.
- Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
If you're passionate about combining cybersecurity expertise with artificial intelligence and have experience with Google SecOps and Chronicle, we encourage you to apply!
We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position in San Jose: $120,000 - $170,000
What this role asks for
In most of TENEX.AI's ads
AWS · Cybersecurity · GCP · Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
78% of this description is written for the role. The rest is TENEX.AI's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with TENEX.AI's other open jobs.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 18 open in Engineering. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Cybersecurity (17 of 18), Python (15 of 18), AWS (13 of 18), GCP (13 of 18), Golang (13 of 18), Kubernetes (13 of 18), RAG (12 of 18)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Software Engineer II (REMOTE) posted Oct 19
- Platform Engineer, AI & Security posted Oct 15
- Platform Security Automation Engineer posted Oct 13
- Principal DevOps Engineer posted Aug 31
- Senior Technical Program Manager posted Aug 17
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer posted Jul 13
- Principal Product Manager - AI posted Jun 30
- Senior AI/ML Engineer posted Jun 8
- AI/ML Engineer II posted Jun 8
- AI/ML Engineer posted Jun 8
- Software Engineer II posted Apr 16
- Senior Data Scientist posted Nov 25
- Software Engineer Intern posted Nov 21
- Senior Software Engineer posted Sep 9
- Staff Software Engineer posted Sep 9
- Software Engineer posted Jul 28
- Principal AI Engineer posted Jul 17
From the team and dates on TENEX.AI's own job board.
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