10 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $215k/yr
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 SLA adherence of large-scale distributed scanning workloads.
- Partner with security, product, and data teams to translate detection and scanning requirements into production-ready systems and APIs.
- Drive code quality, secure-coding practices, design documentation, code reviews, and technical standards.
- Contribute to scanning-platform architecture and roadmap decisions by evaluating tradeoffs and proposing solutions.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues involving scanning performance, accuracy, and stability in collaboration with SRE and infrastructure teams.
- 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 willingness to work in both languages over time.
- Experience designing distributed or highly available services with attention to scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Hands-on experience with scanning, detection, data-processing pipelines, or similar high-throughput engine-like systems.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Experience working in cloud-native environments with services, containers, monitoring, and logging.
- Ability to collaborate across product, security, and platform or infrastructure teams and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Track record of owning projects from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions while maintaining quality and security in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with testing, static analysis, code reviews, and maintainable-system practices.
- Cybersecurity domain knowledge, particularly scanning endpoints, is a bonus.
Benefits
- Base salary ranges from $150,000/year to $215,000/year across US geographic markets.
- 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 culture and opportunities 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.