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Note: We are recruiting on behalf of our valued client. This opportunity is for a position with their organization, not with People Culture Talent. We're excited to help connect talented professionals with this exceptional team! The Role The open AI evaluation platform redefining how the world's leading AI labs measure model performance is looking for a Software Engineer, Platform to help shape the future of how the world measures artificial intelligence. They are building an AI gateway that gives developers access to multiple model providers through a unified endpoint. The product is in a private, gated launch, with additional platform capabilities—including direct model access—being built next. You’ll help build the platform infrastructure that turns their research advantage into enterprise products. This is a founding role on the developer team. You’ll work directly with the founders and early customers to define what they build and how they build it. Location : San Francisco onsite three days per week. Remote candidates will generally only be considered with a strong endorsement. What You’ll Do • Build and scale hands-on backend platform services for client's AI gateway, evolving an existing prototype into a reliable, independently scalable service. • Solve hard streaming problems. Handle SSE/streaming responses across heterogeneous providers, including partial failure recovery, mid-stream fallback, and consistent response normalization. • Ship reliable platform infrastructure, including capabilities such as authentication, rate limiting, usage metering, and cost tracking as the gateway matures. • Build deep observability. Instrument the platform with distributed tracing, latency breakdowns, usage tracking, and real-time dashboards so customers (and the team) can see exactly what’s happening. • Build AI-centered platform capabilities. Integrate with client's evaluation platform and data, and collaborate with research and product teams to turn new ideas into reliable product features. • Flex across the stack. Contribute to the backend of the company's Leaderboards and Evals products when needed, working across platform and product boundaries. What We’re Looking For • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, focused on backend services, distributed systems, or developer-facing platforms. • Strong Golang experience is required. You have built and operated meaningful backend systems in production. • Experience designing reliable APIs, service integrations, or gateway/proxy-style systems. • For Senior candidates: a track record of owning and delivering important backend functionality end to end. • For Staff candidates: extensive backend/platform experience, strong technical judgment, and the ability to provide hands-on technical leadership. • Cloud experience with GCP, AWS, Azure, or another major provider is helpful but not required. • Comfortable working hands-on in a fast-moving environment where the product and infrastructure are still evolving. • Able to work from our San Francisco office three days per week . Nice to Have API gateway, proxy, or multi-provider integration experience. Experience with streaming APIs, response normalization, or resilient distributed systems. Exposure to LLM APIs, model serving, AI infrastructure, or evaluation platforms. Cloud infrastructure experience across GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, or Redis. Experience building usage tracking, billing/metering, authentication, or developer tooling. Compensation Band Their openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is $200k and could range up to $350k USD, plus equity. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands. Benefits Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and additional support programs. The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team. A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact. Visa sponsorship available. About Our Client: This fast-growing startup is building technology that helps people better understand how AI models perform in real-world settings. Its open evaluation platform provides researchers, developers, and organizations with meaningful insights into model quality and performance. Through crowdsourced benchmarks and human preference data, the company helps inform important decisions about the development and use of artificial intelligence. Its evaluation tools and leaderboards have become trusted resources within the AI community. Behind the platform is a team of experienced researchers, engineers, and builders who seek truth, move quickly, and care deeply about craftsmanship and impact. They’re building a company where deep expertise meets curiosity and where the work genuinely matters.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies looking for Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. Security roles across our portfolio may focus on product security, application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, security engineering, or a combination of these areas. We're interested in connecting with engineers who approach security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt. What You Might Work On Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems. Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments. Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices. Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities. Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities. Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow. Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy. What We're Looking For While requirements vary across our client companies, strong candidates often bring: Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline. Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills. Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts. Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions. Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors. The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function. Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements. When you apply, tell us about your primary areas of security expertise, the technical environments you've worked in, and the types of security challenges you're most interested in solving. We'll use that information to identify opportunities across our client portfolio that may be a strong fit. About PCT People Culture Talent helps VCs and venture-backed startups build thriving teams through exceptional Human Capital Management. We create people-first talent strategies for high-growth companies, partnering with organizations from pre-seed to IPO to transform their growth into a masterclass in scaling with purpose. About Our Client Companies PCT partners with exceptional venture-backed companies to build resilient, people-centric, diverse teams. Our clients span industries and stages, from pre-seed startups to companies preparing for IPO, including leading tech organizations like Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub . Our clients are building and scaling sophisticated technology products and are looking for security engineers who can help ensure security evolves alongside the business rather than becoming an afterthought. These companies share a commitment to building strong culture, high-performing teams, and innovative people programs. They're growing fast, scaling thoughtfully, and seeking exceptional talent to join their journey.