Senior Software Engineer, Scanning Engine

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CoalitionCybersecurity, insurance

Listing locations: CanadaFull-TimeSenior

Salary134,600 - 184,600 CAD per year

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Have strong experience as a Senior Software Engineer or equivalent working on backend or systems-level services.
Be proficient in Python or Go and willing to work in both languages over time.
Have demonstrated systems design experience with distributed or high-availability services.
Understand scalability, reliability, and observability.
Have hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, or similar engine-like systems, such as vulnerability scanning, security scanning, or high-throughput data processing pipelines.
Bring strong software engineering fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
Have experience in a cloud-native environment, such as microservices, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, and logging.
Have a track record of owning projects end to end, from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
Have experience with testing, static analysis, code reviews, and building maintainable systems.
Be able to collaborate across product, security, and platform or infrastructure teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
Have cybersecurity domain knowledge in endpoint scanning as a bonus.

Own end-to-end systems design for key scanning engine components, from initial design through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
Design and implement maintainable, well-tested, observable services in Python and Go for scanning workflows.
Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of the scanning engine 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 review rigor, design documentation, and secure coding practices in the scanning engine codebase.
Contribute to scanning platform architecture and roadmap decisions, evaluating tradeoffs and proposing solutions.
Diagnose and resolve production issues involving scanning performance, accuracy, and stability, collaborating with SRE and infrastructure teams as needed.
Mentor engineers through design feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing about systems design and scanning.

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