Our Opportunity As a Staff Software Engineer at Snyk, you will play a significant role in the company's technical leadership.
You will set direction and drive consensus with other engineers to transform Snyk's technical landscape and help build the next generation of technical leaders.
As a part of our Developer Experience team, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact on a wide range of projects, from mastering existing services to building new, cutting-edge features.
Your contributions will directly impact the success of our product and the security of millions of developers worldwide.
You'll Spend Your Time: Analyze, design, and implement high-quality, large-scale solutions to Snyk's most complex technical problems with a keen eye towards scale, efficiency, reliability, and quality. Work with peers and across teams to design and implement solutions to large-scale problems. Communicate regularly in written and verbal forms to team, peers, and senior leads. You'll have end-to-end ownership for the delivery of critical efforts and lead peers in delivering particularly broad efforts as a technical lead. Mentor junior engineers and help grow the next generation of engineers at Snyk. What You'll Need: At least 7 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer. Experience in large-scale software systems design, and familiarity with fundamental computer science concepts (algorithms, complexity, data structures). Proficiency in at least one of our core programming languages (Go, TypeScript), and a willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies. Experience in at least one of: Building highly reliable, scalable microservice back-ends for web APIs or applications, or other types of large-scale, high reliability systems. Building web UIs, CLIs or APIs for use by other engineers. Building infrastructure or platform automation, or observability or release tools. Demonstrable skill in effective software testing. Strong commitment to code quality, and the value of giving and receiving feedback through code reviews. Ability to deal with ambiguity, and respond with agility when requirements and priorities change. Highly effective communicator both verbally and in writing at all levels of the organization.
Able to work collaboratively, be curious and have a growth mindset. Track record of working with peers across the organization to deliver solutions outside of their immediate scope. Ability to lift the performance of a team through coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers. We'd be Lucky if You: Have a proven track record of leading projects and inspiring engineering teams to achieve results. Experienced with Kubernetes or major cloud platforms from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft Azure. Possess an SRE background in keeping systems healthy and happy. Contribute to open-source projects and share your knowledge with the dev community. Experienced in distributed system architectural challenges. Embrace the cloud-native world and/or have Docker experience. Proven experience in deploying and maintaining software in production environments. Enjoy the challenge of finding the right alerting, monitoring, and SLOs for your services. Enjoy working on early stage products; talking with customers to identify, prioritize and solve problems iteratively and build something that they really love. Feed off complex technical problems and find solutions where others see roadblocks. Embrace challenges and learn from them.
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