Who we are.
Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.
Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.
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The Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Integrations Role.
Reality Defender is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Integrations to join our Engineering team. This engineer will play a key role in designing, building, and supporting the integrations that connect Reality Defender’s platform with enterprise communications systems, telephony providers, and customer environments.
You’ll work on backend services, APIs, and real-time integrations that enable customers to deploy Reality Defender into mission-critical workflows. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and enterprise customers to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving challenging integration problems, working directly with customers, and building software that delivers immediate business impact.
What you'll do...
Design, build, and maintain enterprise integrations that enable real-time voice and communications workflows
Develop backend services and APIs that integrate Reality Defender’s platform with enterprise customer environments
Build and maintain REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven services
Work directly with enterprise customers and internal teams to implement and support complex technical integrations
Collaborate with Product, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success to translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions
Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term improvements
Improve the scalability, reliability, observability, and performance of integration services
Write automated tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and engineering best practices
Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews
Help shape the future of Reality Defender’s enterprise integration platform
Qualifications.
3–6 years of professional software engineering experience
Strong professional experience developing production applications in Python
Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs
Experience building distributed or event-driven systems
Experience working with AWS or another major cloud platform
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable collaborating with engineering teams, customer-facing teams, and enterprise customers
Nice to have.
Experience with Go (Golang)
Experience with TypeScript
Experience building modern web applications using React
Experience with SIP, VoIP, or telecommunications technologies
Experience integrating with telephony or contact center platforms such as Twilio, Genesys, Amazon Connect, Cisco, RingCentral, Five9, or Zoom Phone
Familiarity with WebRTC, RTP, or other real-time communications technologies
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized applications
Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS
Experience working on cybersecurity, fraud detection, identity verification, or AI/ML products
What success looks like.
Within your first six months, you’ll:
Deliver production-ready integrations for enterprise customers
Become a trusted engineering partner for Solutions Engineering and Customer Success
Expand Reality Defender’s telephony and enterprise integration capabilities
Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of customer-facing services
Contribute meaningful improvements to our engineering practices and platform architecture
What we offer.
Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:
Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
FSA/HSA and 401k programs
Equity compensation
20 days of PTO per year
12 weeks of Parental Leave
Learning and Development budget
Monthly wellness benefits
Annual company-sponsored offsite
For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:
Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
Commuter benefits
Remote Fridays
Happy Hours and other local events
Compensation Range: $150K - $190K
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