Senior Backend Engineer – AI Protection - Dallas at Island
Coppell, TX
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Jul 13, 2026
Coppell, TX
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building the server-side infrastructure for an enterprise AI governance product. Day-to-day work involves designing distributed, cloud-native services for policy management, audit event collection, and enforcement across major generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The role suits engineers with strong distributed systems and API design experience who have an interest in AI security.
Senior level · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 16,900 people in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 12,700–22,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $136,221 (middle half $107,984–$167,709).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting names no specific programming languages, frameworks, or cloud platforms in its requirements — all hard gates are stated at the capability level (distributed systems, cloud-native, APIs, microservices). The skills list reflects exactly what the JD gates on; no concrete tool names were available to extract.
AI-related skills (LLMs, prompt engineering, AI APIs) appear exclusively under the 'Bonus Points' section and are explicitly framed as ideal/preferred extras, not gates.
No total years of experience are stated anywhere in the posting.
The role appears to be on-site at the Coppell, TX HQ (daily catered lunch and gym access referenced); no remote option is mentioned.
No compensation figures are disclosed.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend engineering, cloud-native development.
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