Software Engineer - Security

Our Opportunity

We’re looking for a collaborative, experienced software engineer to join our security team to enable our users to make conscious and informed decisions about the vulnerabilities in their code. The team works within the security RnD group, which works to research vulnerabilities, add them to the database with pipelines and tooling specially built for their needs, and curate proprietary data for the vulnerabilities in our database. 

You’ll Spend Your Time:

• collaborating with teams across the whole engineering org to integrate security knowledge into our products across the board
• Working across the stack and entire development life cycle to build, test, deploy and support high quality, reliable, fast services for our customers
• talking to our customers, collaborating with your team to build a product they truly love
• enabling users to better prioritize and remediate the vulnerabilities in their code
• continuously delivering small, high quality changes to production, at a sustainable pace
• growing the other engineers in your team through feedback, mentoring, advice
• evolving our technology and architecture to meet the challenges ahead
• Participating in our on-call rotation (compensated)

What You’ll Need:

• are a capable coder, and are experienced working with TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js

• are familiar with distributed/data intensive systems architectural challenges

• believe that understanding a task is 80% of the success of a project

• prioritize collaboration, pair programming, and code review

• work sustainably, quickly and iteratively—through high quality code and continuous delivery

• are comfortable working across the stack as part of a cross-functional team

• like to start new things, see them through to production, and learn from your mistakes

• understand the importance of testing and code quality

• Appreciate being part of a diverse team

We’d be Lucky if You: 

• love working in a fast-paced start-up environment that respects its engineers and customers
• have worked in front-end frameworks (vue, react, etc), and love to craft beautiful websites that help to engage users and convert them into loyal customers
• have experience developing in Python/Golang/Java etc. (backend)
• have experience with Kubernetes or another container-based operational environment
• have experience leading and designing projects
• are excited by Snyk’s mission, open-source, or developer tools