As a 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.

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:

• Mastering the latest tech and best practices to maintain and supercharge our existing services.
• Unleashing your full-stack superpowers to build, test, deploy, and optimize high quality, reliable, fast services that power Snyk.
• Optimizing our team's workflow by identifying potential improvements and driving the changes needed to address them.
• Connecting with customers and collaborating with other teams to craft a product everyone truly loves.
• Guiding your team through mentorship, pairing, and sharing your expertise (for more Senior roles).
• Tackling performance and scalability challenges head-on across our services as we grow. 

What You’ll Need:

• Proficiency in Node/Javascript/Typescript or Go, or willingness to learn new languages. 
• Possess excellent communication skills and an ability to break down complex tech into plain English.
• Promote testing as a natural part of any coding effort to improve code quality.
• Have high standards for code quality, testing and continuous delivery and enjoy working with others to raise the bar.
• 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.

We’d be Lucky if You: 

• Have a 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.
• Are familiar with 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.

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