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Reality Defender (YC W22)

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔐 Security

📱 Media

Artificial Intelligence • Security • Media

Reality Defender is a company that provides multi-model and multimodal platforms for detecting AI-generated content. It offers services to enterprises, governments, and platforms to detect deepfakes and synthetic media across various modalities such as audio, video, images, and text. The solutions are designed to protect against the rapidly growing threat of AI-generated content used for fraud and disinformation. Reality Defender's tools are probabilistic, meaning they do not rely on watermarks or prior authentication to verify authenticity. The company focuses on industries like media, finance, and government to safeguard against AI-generated threats.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, and maintain Microsoft Teams bot applications and integrations • Build real-time audio and video streaming features focused on low latency, reliability, and media quality • Develop Windows-based services and applications using C# and .NET • Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications in Kubernetes • Integrate with Microsoft APIs, SDKs, authentication systems, and cloud services • Diagnose media issues involving codecs, synchronization, buffering, packet loss, and network conditions • Create automated tests and participate in code reviews • Troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and media diagnostics • Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate requirements into maintainable solutions • Produce clear technical and operational documentation • Contribute production-ready features to the Teams bot application within six months • Independently diagnose and resolve common audio/video streaming problems within six months • Deploy and troubleshoot the application in Kubernetes environments within six months • Improve the reliability, test coverage, scalability, and observability of the media pipeline within six months

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 3–5 years of professional software development experience • Strong proficiency with C#, .NET, and asynchronous or concurrent programming • Professional experience developing software for Windows • Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time audio streaming systems • Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time video streaming systems • Production experience deploying and operating containerized applications with Kubernetes • Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads, networking, configuration, resource usage, scaling, and application failures • Understanding of real-time media concepts such as codecs, frame and sample formats, buffering, latency, synchronization, and network transport • Experience integrating with REST APIs, SDKs, and event-driven systems • Familiarity with multithreading, memory management, performance profiling, and debugging • Experience with Git, automated testing, and modern CI/CD practices • Strong written and verbal communication skills • U.S. work authorization required; candidates must answer whether they require employment-visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents • Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents • Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees • FSA/HSA and 401k programs • Equity compensation • 20 days of PTO per year • 12 weeks of Parental Leave • Learning and Development budget • Monthly wellness benefits • Annual company-sponsored offsite • Daily in-office lunch through UberEats for employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC • Commuter benefits for employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC • Remote Fridays for employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC • Happy Hours and other local events for employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC