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7AI

Autonomous agentic security platform for defenders

Senior Software Architect

Software EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBoston, MA, USA$240k - $260k /yrHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 20 years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in system design and architecture.
  • A track record of designing and evolving distributed, scalable systems.
  • Broad AWS cloud architecture experience, including designing and building complex data plane and control plane systems.
  • Ability to work deeply technically while influencing broadly across teams.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
  • Ability to explain complex systems clearly.
  • Experience with data pipelines, highly scalable systems, and cloud-native architectures and services.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve system architecture across the platform to keep it scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
  • Partner with engineering and product teams to design systems that balance fast delivery with long-term flexibility.
  • Lead technical decisions and weigh trade-offs across performance, cost, and complexity.
  • Turn ambiguous business or product needs into clear technical approaches and system designs.
  • Identify and resolve architectural gaps, technical debt, and scaling bottlenecks before they become blockers.
  • Mentor engineers and act as a technical thought partner across teams.
  • Evaluate and apply AI tools, frameworks, and workflows to improve the product and accelerate internal development.
  • Track advances in AI development and help the team adopt useful advances.
  • Help build a culture of curiosity and experimentation with AI across the organization.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in cybersecurity.

About the Company

7AI

Autonomous agentic security platform for defenders

7AI builds an agentic security platform that uses AI to act autonomously in real time to defend against cyber threats. Its product, the 7AI Agentic Security Platform, leverages the speed, coordination (swarming), and computational power of AI to make decisions and take actions without human input in order to reach predefined cybersecurity goals. Unlike traditional security tools that require human-led responses, 7AI's agents operate autonomously to detect, respond to, and neutralize threats. The platform aims to give defenders an advantage by enabling rapid, coordinated actions across environments. The company differentiates itself through its autonomous agentic approach, created by renowned cybersecurity experts and backed by major investors, to move beyond manual or semi-automated defense and toward end-to-end autonomous security operations.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Series A
Total funding
$166M
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
2023

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