Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the cloud data syncing layer, collaborate on compliance automation, mentor teammates, and build features. Required skills include cloud technologies, backend programming, and database management.
We’re an impactful, and highly collaborative team aiming to bring excellence to the world of security and compliance. Every member of the team is an owner, with a lot of responsibility and the opportunity to play a critical role in building out the team and defining our culture.
This position will be fully remote with the candidate ideally residing in Canada.
What You'll Do
- Own our cloud data syncing layer and help scale to larger customers and faster data sync.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Design and other stakeholders within Engineering to automate technical compliance requirements and maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment. Wear a product manager hat when needed.
- Build features that solve technical problems of high scope and complexityParticipate in planning activities.
- Contribute to codebases in Ruby on Rails; review codebases in Javascript.
- Mentor junior and intermediate engineers to help them level up and grow.
- Interact directly with customers
Who You Are
- You care about product ownership and solving problems for our customers.
- You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact.
- You care about your craft, and are looking to continually improve.
Who We're Looking For
- 5+ years of professional work experience.
- Solid understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Deep knowledge of IAM, networking, storage, compute, and logging services within AWS, GCP, and/or Azure; expertise within Digital Ocean or Heroku is a bonus!
- Experience deploying with Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or equivalents.
- Proficiency in a modern backend language (e.g., Ruby, Python, Go).
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
- Strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively.
- Passion and ability to work well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
Nice to Haves
- Basic knowledge of commercial (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001) and/or federal compliance frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, NIST 800-53); familiarity with GovCloud environments is a bonus!
- Experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch.
- Frontend development experience (HTML, CSS, TypeScript).
- Experience as a founder or at an early stage startup.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
CloudFormation
CSS
GCP
HTML
JavaScript
MySQL
Postgres
Ruby On Rails
Terraform
Typescript
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