Senior Software Engineer - Scanning Engine
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CoalitionCybersecurity insurance
Location: Any location, CanadaFull-TimeSenior
Salary134,600 - 184,600 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonGoCI/CDMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Experience as a Senior Software Engineer or equivalent, working on backend or systems-level services.
- Proficiency in Python or Go, with the ability and willingness to work in both languages over time.
- Experience designing distributed or high-availability services, including scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, or similar engine-like systems, such as vulnerability scanning, security scanning, data processing pipelines, or high-throughput engines.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Experience in a cloud-native environment, such as microservices, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, and logging.
- Experience with testing, static analysis, code reviews, and building maintainable systems.
- A track record of owning projects end-to-end, from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Ability to collaborate across product, security, and platform or infrastructure teams and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Cybersecurity domain knowledge in scanning through endpoints is a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end systems design for key scanning engine components, from design through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
- Design and implement maintainable, well-tested, observable services in Python and Go.
- Improve scanning engine performance, scalability, and reliability for large-scale distributed workloads and strict SLAs.
- Translate scanning and detection requirements into production-ready systems and APIs with security, product, and data teams.
- Drive code quality standards through code reviews, design documentation, and secure coding practices.
- Contribute to scanning platform architecture and roadmap decisions, evaluating tradeoffs and proposing solutions.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues involving scanning performance, accuracy, and stability, working with SRE and infrastructure teams as needed.
- Mentor engineers through design feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
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