10 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
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, and observable scanning services in Python and Go.
- Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and accuracy of large-scale distributed scanning workloads.
- Partner with security, product, data, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into production-ready systems and APIs.
- Drive technical standards through code reviews, design documentation, secure coding practices, and other engineering-quality processes.
- Contribute to scanning-platform architecture and roadmap decisions, balancing speed, quality, and risk.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving scanning performance, accuracy, and stability.
- Mentor 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.
- Experience designing distributed or highly available services with attention to scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, data-processing, or similar high-throughput engine systems.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Experience working in cloud-native environments with services, containers, monitoring, logging, and related operational practices.
- Ability to collaborate across product, security, and platform or infrastructure teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Proven ownership of projects 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 in scanning endpoints is a bonus.
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
- Mental and physical health wellness programs, including Headspace and Lumino.
- Remote-first work arrangement.
- Competitive compensation and advancement opportunities.
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.