Senior Backend Software Engineer
Trustible
Software Engineering
Posted on May 31, 2025
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Location: Washington, DC metro area — Hybrid (2-3 days per week in office)
About Trustible
Trustible is a leading technology provider of responsible AI governance. Its software platform enables legal/compliance and AI/ML teams to scale their AI Governance programs to help build trust, manage risk, and comply with regulations.
AI is the most important technology transformation of our lifetime. As AI adoption accelerates, our mission is to empower organizations to ensure trustworthy AI practices at scale. We are a fast-growing, early-stage company, and we’re looking for our bring engineering talent to build and scale our platform.
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Trustible, you will split your time between building customer-facing features in our Django-based platform and stewarding the cloud infrastructure that keeps it fast, secure, and reliable. You’ll design APIs, optimize data models, and own core services while also defining AWS and Azure resources with Terraform, tightening security controls, and guiding DevOps best practices. If you love clean code and elegant infrastructure—and want to help shape AI Governance —you’ll feel right at home.
What You’ll Bring
5 + years building production back-end systems in Python (Django or DRF preferred)
Proven experience designing and operating AWS and/or Azure workloads, expressed as Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or OpenTofu)
Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/AKS) and modern CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
Working knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and caching layers (Redis, Memcached)
Solid grasp of web application security principles and observability practices (metrics, tracing, log aggregation)
Bonus points for: GraphQL, Celery/RQ, OpenAI/LLM integrations, or security/compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Role Expectations
Ship backend features. Architect, implement, and test Django services, REST/GraphQL APIs, and background workers that power Trustible’s AI Governance platform.
Collaborate cross-functionally. Work hand-in-hand with product, design, and front-end engineers to translate ideas into reliable backend services.
Design for scale. Optimize database schemas, caching, and async job queues to keep response times low as customer data grows.
Own our cloud estates. Manage AWS and Azure environments as reusable Terraform modules; automate provisioning, tagging, and least-privilege access.
Embed security. Implement and refine controls such as secrets management, network segmentation, and encryption-in-transit/at-rest; maintain SOC 2 evidence and help push toward ISO 27001, NIST 800-171, etc.
About You
You’re a builder who enjoys toggling between product code and the infrastructure under it. You believe AI should be developed responsibly and want to help organizations reach that goal. You’re comfortable in the ambiguity of an early-stage startup, eager to learn, quick to document, and generous with your knowledge. You value in-person collaboration but appreciate heads-down focus time, too.
Why Join Trustible?
You’ll join a super smart, agile team at the intersection of AI and policy supporting one of the fastest-growing segments within the AI ecosystem (AI Governance)
Work alongside an experienced founding team
Competitive salary, equity options, and benefits package.
Hybrid work environment (in-office 2-3 times a week, WFH Mondays and Fridays)