Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Synack is a cybersecurity company focused on transforming security through its Penetration Testing as a Service platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and integrate cybersecurity testing systems, build scalable software, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the company's engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate cybersecurity testing and analysis systems with best-in-class cybersecurity platform
- Build high-performance, resilient, scalable cloud-based software, microservices architecture and containers
- Take software through CI/CD all the way to production and own its quality and availability
- Utilize GCP platform to build and run highly-available software systems
- Identify and resolve performance issues across systems and components
- Collaborate on a cross-functional team, working with Product, Operations, and Platform Engineering
- Integrate monitoring and alerting capabilities with backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times
- Design, implement and deliver well-tested, scalable, highly available systems
- Own and ideate technical solutions for product requirements and user stories
- Actively engage and participate in design and code reviews
- Offer guidance and support to junior team members, encouraging and cultivating a culture of continuous learning within the team
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in distributed-systems and backend software engineering
- Strong Golang Required: 7+ years of experience minimum
- Strong experience and understanding of microservices, REST API design, gRPC, unit testing, BDD testing
- Strong design skills required – UML is a bonus; exposure to Domain Driven Design desirable
- Experience with asynchronous messaging technologies such as Google PubSub, Kafka
- In depth knowledge of NoSQL and RDBMS technologies
- Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Environments (GCP preferred)
- Experience working on agile teams
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in all mediums
- Experience developing scalable and observable microservice-based applications
- Experience with GitOps and DevOps principles, practices and tools
- A proven ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Interest in security / penetration testing
- Interest in GenAI and LLM technologies
Benefits
- The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits.
Company Overview
Human + AI platform for continuous security validation and AI pentesting, powered by the Synack Red Team. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.synack.com.