3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- 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, and observable Python and Go services for scanning workflows.
- Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of large-scale distributed scanning workloads while meeting strict SLAs.
- Translate detection and scanning requirements into production-ready systems and APIs with security, product, and data teams.
- Drive code quality, secure coding practices, design documentation, and rigorous code reviews.
- Contribute to scanning platform architecture and roadmap decisions by evaluating tradeoffs among speed, quality, and risk.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving scanning performance, accuracy, and stability.
- Mentor and support engineers through design feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Strong 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 highly available services with a focus on scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, data-processing, or similar high-throughput engine systems.
- Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Experience working in a cloud-native environment with services, containers, monitoring, logging, and related operational practices.
- Ability to collaborate across product, security, data, and platform or infrastructure teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Proven ability to own projects end-to-end from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Comfort making pragmatic technical decisions in a fast-paced, evolving environment while maintaining quality and security.
- Experience with testing, static analysis, code reviews, and building maintainable systems.
- Cybersecurity domain knowledge, particularly scanning endpoints, is a bonus.
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO policy
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental and physical health wellness programs, including One Medical, Headspace, and Wellhub
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
About Coalition
Coalition builds cyber insurance and active risk management for businesses, combining coverage with cybersecurity tools, automated alerts, and MDR. It distributes policies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia through partner insurers and its own carrier, Coalition Insurance Company, and provides its Coalition Control cyber risk platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.