Senior software engineer

About

Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500.

Responsibilities

• Take part of all development aspects from design to production of a wide hybrid/ cloud native product
• Write high quality, testable and efficient code
• Design and implement graph-based agentic orchestration workflows while optimizing LLM performance through advanced prompt engineering and context management
• Initiate and promote new ideas for continuous improvement of the product functionality
• Work closely with other team members as well as mentoring new team members

Qualifications

• Significant real-world experience developing software for production systems
• Hands-on experience and proficiency in Java
• Hands-on experience and proficiency in Go (an advantage)
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure and services
• Exposure and experience to CI/CD/DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring technologies
• Ability to take initiative and scope work to deliver value iteratively, making meaningful design decisions, and driving work to completion
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing with a passion to mentor, lead, and guide others
• Strong testing abilities including automated testing and monitoring to improve team efficiency and reliability of production services

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to a team defined and empowered by diversity. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

Additional Information

We build AI for a living, and we encourage candidates to use it to prep, research, and sharpen their best work. But we're hiring humans, not chatbots. We want the real you. Use AI to tighten your resume, prep for interviews, research Torq, and outline ideas for written responses. Show up as yourself for live interviews, final assessments (the voice, logic, and reasoning need to be yours), and anywhere we're evaluating how you think — not how you prompt.

Excited about our vision and ready to make an impact as we grow? We'd love to see what you can bring to the team.