Software Engineer
Software Engineering
United States · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Remote
Posted on Sep 5, 2026
Department
ENGINEERING
Location
Kuala Lumpur · Remote-friendly
Type
Full-time
Open to part-time arrangements, and we welcome internship applications for this role.
About the role
Obiguard’s inspection pipeline sits in the critical path between customer applications and their LLMs — every prompt and response passes through it in single-digit milliseconds. As a Software Engineer, you’ll build and harden this pipeline: the detectors, the policy engine, and the audit ledger that enterprise security teams depend on in production. This is a forward-deployed engineering role — during pilots, you may be deployed on-site at client offices for stretches of up to three weeks at a time, debugging integration issues and production incidents in person.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and ship detectors for the inspection pipeline — covering PII, prompt injection, toxicity, and framework-specific policy rules.
- Improve p50/p99 latency on the synchronous, in-path inspection layer without compromising detection accuracy.
- Own services end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and on-call.
- Work directly with customers during pilots to debug production incidents and edge cases in real deployments.
- Collaborate with the AI Safety Research team to turn new attack research into shipped detectors.
- Contribute to the audit ledger and framework-mapping systems that back our compliance guarantees.
What we're looking for
- 3+ years building production backend systems, ideally in Go, Python, or Rust.
- Comfortable working in the critical path of a low-latency system — you think in milliseconds, not seconds.
- Experience with distributed systems, observability, and debugging production incidents under pressure.
- Solid understanding of security fundamentals; prior application security or infra security experience is a strong plus.
- Bias toward shipping — comfortable owning a feature from design doc to production rollout.
- Comfortable with extended client-site deployments — this is a forward-deployed role, with on-site stints of up to three weeks at a time during active pilots.
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating LLM-adjacent infrastructure (RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, model gateways).
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF).
- Open-source contributions to security or infra tooling.