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 is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. By combining comprehensive insurance coverage and cybersecurity tools, Coalition helps businesses manage and mitigate potential cyber attacks. Coalition offers its Active Insurance products to policyholders in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia through Coalition’s relationships with leading global insurers and cyber capacity through its own carrier, Coalition Insurance Company. Coalition also provides automated cyber alerts, expert guidance and advice, and third-party risk management to businesses worldwide through its holistic cyber risk management platform, Coalition Control. Coalition also offers Wirespeed Managed Detection & Response, a 24/7 fully automated MDR that initiates mitigation in milliseconds to shut down threats before they can wreak havoc.