Senior Software Engineer

Company: Snyk Ltd.
Location: Boston
Posted on: October 24, 2024

Job Description:

Our Opportunity
As a Senior Software Engineer at Snyk, you'll be at the forefront of building the future of application security. You'll be challenged to create high-performance, reliable, and scalable services while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. We're looking for individuals who are passionate about crafting exceptional software, solving complex problems, and driving innovation.
As a part of our Developer Experience team you'll have the opportunity to work 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:

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• Analyzing, designing and implementing high-quality solutions to problems with well-tested, maintainable code.
  
• Building systems with the long-term in mind, focusing on good design, robust testing, and sustainability from the perspective of cost and scale.
  
• Supporting our customers by resolving bugs and customer support escalations.
  
• Designing solutions to problems which typically require multiple engineers to implement.
  
• Demonstrating end-to-end ownership for the delivery of key efforts, and leading peers in the delivery of particularly broad efforts as a technical lead.
  
• Providing mentorship to more junior engineers, and playing a role in growing the next generation of engineers at Snyk.
  
  What You'll Need:
  
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  • At least 5 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:
    
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    • 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.
      
    • Effective communicator both verbally and in writing. Able to work collaboratively, be curious and have a growth mindset.
      
    • Ability to lift the performance of a team through coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers.
      
      We'd be Lucky if You:
      
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      • 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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