Staff Software Engineer

2 Months ago • 7 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

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. You will be involved in analyzing, designing, and implementing high-quality, large-scale solutions, working with peers across teams, and mentoring junior engineers. The role involves end-to-end ownership of critical efforts, communicating regularly, and leading broad efforts.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience in large-scale software systems design.
  • Proficiency in programming languages (Go, TypeScript).
  • Experience in building reliable microservices back-ends or web UIs.
  • Strong commitment to code quality and feedback.
  • Effective communication skills.
Good to have:
  • Proven track record of leading projects and inspiring teams.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or major cloud platforms.
  • SRE background.
  • Contribution to open-source projects.
  • Experience 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.
  • Finding the right alerting, monitoring and SLOs for your services.
  • 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.
Perks:
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Work-from home allowances.
  • In-office perks.
  • Time off for learning and self-development.
  • Generous vacation and wellness time off.
  • Country-specific holidays.
  • 100% paid parental leave.
  • Health benefits.
  • Employee assistance plans.
  • Annual wellness allowance.
  • Country-specific life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Retirement/pension programs.
  • Mobile phone and education allowances.

Job Details

Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.

 

 

Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.

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.

#LI-DB1

We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!

 

About Snyk

Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.

Benefits & Programs

Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.

  • Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
  • Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
  • Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
  • Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances

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About The Company

Founded in London and Tel Aviv in 2015, we’ve grown to a united global team of more than 1000+ employees. No matter where we are in the world, we operate as one team and work together to shape the future of application security. We take immense pride in the diversity of our people, cultures, and experiences. Every team member at Snyk contributes to our vision for a more secure digital world. By combining developer-first tooling and deep cybersecurity intelligence, we deliver solutions that help any developer build securely without slowing down productivity.

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