Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Integrations

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