3 months ago
North Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$135k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end systems design for key scanning-engine components through implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration.
- Design and implement maintainable, well-tested, and observable scanning services in Python and Go.
- Improve scanning-engine performance, scalability, and reliability for large-scale distributed workloads and strict SLAs.
- Partner with security, product, and data teams to translate detection and scanning requirements into production-ready systems and APIs.
- Drive technical standards through rigorous code reviews, design documentation, and secure-coding practices.
- Contribute to scanning-platform architecture and roadmap decisions by evaluating tradeoffs and proposing solutions.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving scanning performance, accuracy, and stability.
- Mentor engineers through design feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing about systems design and scanning concepts.
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 high-availability services with attention to scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, vulnerability-scanning, security-scanning, data-processing, or similar high-throughput engine systems.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Experience working in a cloud-native environment involving containers, monitoring, and logging.
- Ability to collaborate across product, security, and platform or infrastructure teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Proven experience owning projects end to end from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Ability to make 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 involving endpoint scanning is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement across Canadian geographic markets
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental and physical health wellness programs, including Headspace and Lumino
- 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.