Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Remote

Overview

Synack’s Penetration Testing as a Service platform manages customers’ attack surfaces by discovering new assets, pentesting for critical vulnerabilities and gaining visibility into the root causes of security risks. We are committed to making the world more secure by harnessing a talented, vetted community of security researchers to deliver continuous penetration testing and vulnerability management, with actionable results. Synack's PTaaS platform has uncovered more than 71,000 exploitable vulnerabilities to date, protecting a growing list of Global 2000 customers and U.S. agencies in a FedRAMP Moderate Authorized environment.

In Short

• Design, implement and deliver well-tested, scalable, highly available software services.
• Actively engage and participate in design and code reviews.
• Take software through CI/CD all the way to production and be responsible for availability.
• Utilize GCP platform from running containers to integrating with hosted services.
• Identify performance bottlenecks across components.
• Collaborate on a cross-functional team, working with Product, Operations, and DevOps.
• Integrate monitoring and alerting capabilities with backend services to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of Go programming experience.
• Network fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP).
• Solid engineering fundamentals (security, resilience, availability, performance, load balancing, synchronous and asynchronous programming models, etc).
• Experience and understanding of microservices, modular monoliths, REST API design, writing unit testing, BDD testing.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging technologies such as Google PubSub, Kafka.
• Experience with NoSQL and RDBMS technologies.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Environments (GCP preferred).
• Experience working on agile teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in all mediums.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Remote work flexibility.