Senior/Staff Software Engineer

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Senior/Staff Software Engineer in USA new

Decagon
Full time
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USA
10/29/2026
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New York, NY

Responsibilities

Build PII handling and redaction systems across conversations, agent traces, and customer data.
Design configurable redaction and retention policy abstractions with safe defaults.
Develop reliable deletion workflows across storage systems and derived data, including retries, verification, and failure visibility.
Build self-service tools and APIs for configuring, testing, and understanding data lifecycle policies.
Build LLM-backed systems and train or tune models to detect PII, PHI, anomalies, and policy violations.
Extend data identification and redaction to images, attachments, voice notes, and documents.
Build monitoring and auditability for processed data, remaining data, and policy failures without exposing sensitive information.
Manage data lifecycle systems at scale, including backfills, partial failures, and safe rollouts.

Requirements

4+ years of experience building software products.
Proficiency in Python and comfort working across the entire stack.
Experience designing reliable backend systems and data pipelines with asynchronous processing, retries, and failure recovery.
Understanding of observability and monitoring for critical systems.
Ability to reason about data flows, persistent copies, and workflow failures across complex systems.
Strong debugging skills across deep technology stacks.
Judgment regarding delivery speed versus correctness, privacy, and irreversible operations.
Preferred experience with PII detection, redaction, tokenization, sensitive-data handling, retention and deletion workflows, security-sensitive product systems, privacy requirements such as GDPR or CCPA, LLMs and AI agent systems, observability and audit trails, and sensitive data in voice or image formats.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families.
Life insurance, disability benefits, and a retirement plan such as a 401K or pension.
Parental leave and fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
Monthly wellness and lifestyle stipend.
Daily office lunches and snacks.
Take-what-you-need vacation policy, with UK employees receiving 25 days of statutory leave.
In-office work arrangement.
Full-time employee benefits may vary by location and can change according to company policies.

Salary: $200k - $400k/yr

Decagon

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Chime, Oura Health, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, d...

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