Senior Software Engineer - Backend Development

Description :

As an early hire, you will have an opportunity to build as well as help architect our systems and platforms, including our development practices and processes. Many fundamental choices have not yet been made, so this greenfield background is an unusual opportunity to have broad ownership and the ability to define requirements and goals across product delivery, tools, and process. Above all, you have a bias for action. You love getting product out the door and learning from tight feedback loops, and love the satisfaction you'll receive from knowing that your contributions are directly improving the security of data for millions of people in the world.

Responsibilities :

- Design, prioritize, and build infrastructure and services to support end-to-end experiences. Deployment target is currently AWS, though we may expand to additional public clouds in the future.

- Data is our life - much of our stack is related to data import, transport, cleaning, storage, analysis, and learning. This is not, however, typical ETL - our bread and butter is sophisticated security analysis on user behavior, and data sets are petabyte vs terabyte scale, so multi-layer distributed systems able to drive real-time analysis and alerting are the norm.

- Work with our team to create, design, and implement a world-class development lifecycle, architecture, and toolset, from initial concept through DevSecOps delivery

- Define service architecture and APIs to implement the above.

- Understand and participate in tradeoff discussions, but dare to stand behind principles and values that you believe cannot be compromised on.

Requirements :

- BS, Master's, or PhD in computer science or related, or equivalent experience.

- 6+ years of professional experience in backend development.

- Experience in cybersecurity or the SaaS industry, especially with Access, Identity, and Governance, would be a plus.

- Proficiency in one or more of the following languages : Golang, Java, . NET, JavaScript, with an understanding of technical and community pros, cons, and tradeoffs

- Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles.

- Strong understanding of industry best practices across the entire lifecycle from idea to design to development, as well as test, deployment, operations, monitoring, and incident management.

- Have shipped and operated high-scale commercial SaaS products, with all that entails.

- Understanding of core networking, data transport, and persistence systems and methods at scale, particularly noSQL.

- Broad direct experience with at least one public cloud platform - AWS preferred, Azure, GCP, and modern deployment tooling (CI/CD, containers, Terraform, etc).

- Deep understanding of performance, privacy, scalability, HA/DR, instrumentation, logging and alerting, and other requirements of industry best practice enterprise-scale products and services.

- Understanding of industry best practice security and privacy, and data governance requirements and practices.

- Familiar with secure development practices, from coding to artifact generation to deployment.

- Ability to work and thrive in a fast-moving world with ambiguity and potential change as daily companions.