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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Reality Defender

Reality Defender

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA · United States · Remote
Posted on May 14, 2025

About Reality Defender

Reality Defender provides accurate, multi-modal AI-generated media detection solutions to enable enterprises and governments to identify and prevent fraud, disinformation, and harmful deepfakes in real time. A Y Combinator graduate, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs alumni, and backed by DCVC, Reality Defender is tdhe first company to pioneer multi-modal and multi-model detection of AI-generated media. Our web app and platform-agnostic API built by our research-forward team ensures that our customers can swiftly and securely mitigate fraud and cybersecurity risks in real time with a frictionless, robust solution.

Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup

Why we stand out:

  • Our best-in-class accuracy is derived from our sole, research-backed mission and use of multiple models per modality

  • We can detect AI-generated fraud and disinformation in near- or real time across all modalities including audio, video, image, and text.

  • Our platform is designed for ease of use, featuring a versatile API that integrates seamlessly with any system, an intuitive drag-and-drop web application for quick ad hoc analysis, and platform-agnostic real-time audio detection tailored for call center deployments.

  • We’re privacy first, ensuring the strongest standards of compliance and keeping customer data away from the training of our detection models.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across Reality Defender's development teams, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.

  • Tackle a wide variety of complex software engineering challenges, swiftly identifying and implementing effective technical solutions.

  • Write clean, efficient, scalable, and reusable code—with a strong focus on performance and reliability.

  • Champion unit testing and code quality, ensuring your team consistently delivers high-standard, bug-free releases.

  • Influence and contribute to system architecture, database design, and API development with a strategic and forward-thinking mindset.

  • Partner closely with Product Managers to define, scope, and prioritize new features and functionality.

  • Collaborate with senior leadership to align on strategic initiatives and tackle critical business challenges with technology solutions.

About You

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of building and operating production systems at scale

  • 2+ years of experience leading engineering initiatives, driving technical direction, and/or mentoring team members through architectural and project-level decisions.

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

  • Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical and business problems across diverse and evolving software architectures.

  • Proven success working both independently and collaboratively on mission-critical initiatives in fast-paced environments.

  • Experience contributing to or thriving within rapidly growing engineering teams is a strong plus.

  • Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating high-scale, high-availability systems.