Senior Backend Engineer – AI Protection - Dallas

Island Enterprise Platform

The Island Enterprise Platform unifies AI enablement, network access, data protection, identity, and endpoint control into one coherent workspace—so organizations get universal visibility and control, while users enjoy a fast, fluid, and beautifully simple experience.

Backed by leading investors including Coatue Management, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Cyberstarts, and trusted by some of the world's largest enterprises, Island is redefining what the modern workplace can be.

We're a team of ambitious, high-character builders who came together to reinvent work for the modern enterprise. We care deeply about solving hard problems, moving fast, and building products that millions of users rely on every day.

If you're excited about creating iconic technology, thrive on technical challenges, and want to help shape the future of enterprise AI and security—we'd love to meet you.

The AI Protection team is building the foundation that enables enterprises to adopt Generative AI safely and at scale.

Our team owns the administrative experience for AI Protection, empowering security and IT teams with the visibility, governance, and controls they need to manage AI usage across their organizations. We build the services behind policy management, audit capabilities, AI event collection, and enforcement across leading AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and others.

As AI rapidly transforms the workplace, our mission is to provide organizations with deep visibility, intelligent controls, and enterprise-grade security—without slowing users down.

• Design and build highly scalable backend services powering Island's AI Protection platform.
• Build the administrative experience used by enterprise IT and security teams.
• Develop services for collecting, processing, and presenting AI-related audit events across the platform.
• Design and implement policy management capabilities that allow organizations to define and enforce AI governance.
• Build web enforcement mechanisms for leading AI applications including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and emerging AI services.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to aggregate AI security events into a unified platform.
• Design distributed systems with a strong focus on scalability, performance, reliability, and security.
• Partner closely with Product, Frontend, Security, and Infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end features.

What We're Looking For

• Strong backend engineering experience building distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Excellent software design and system architecture skills.
• Experience developing scalable APIs and microservices.
• Strong ownership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Passion for building elegant products that solve complex customer problems.

Bonus Points

We're especially excited about engineers who are genuine AI enthusiasts.

Ideal candidates:

• Regularly experiment with AI tools outside of their day-to-day work.
• Have hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, AI APIs, or AI-powered development workflows.
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
• Enjoy exploring emerging technologies and turning new ideas into production-ready features.
• Are excited about shaping the future of enterprise AI security.

Why Join Us?

You'll join one of Island's fastest-growing product areas at a pivotal moment for both AI and enterprise security. You'll help define how the world's largest organizations securely embrace Generative AI while working alongside exceptional engineers to solve problems at massive scale.

If building the future of secure AI sounds exciting, we'd love to hear your story.

What We Offer

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees starting on day 1, with 85% covered for dependents
• Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
• 401K with 4% company match
• Paid parental leave policies
• Daily catered lunch in our Coppell HQ
• 24/7 access to Cypress Waters gym facilities

Island is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.