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Staff Software Engineer

Staff-level engineer building and scaling a new Identity Security Posture Management product. Owns technical vision, architecture for petabyte-scale data systems, and mentors junior engineers using Ruby on Rails.

200k – 220k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end solutions using primarily Ruby on Rails
  • Implement efficient data pipelines to extract relevant information from massive amounts of noise
  • Collaborate with security researchers to understand hacking strategies and methods to combat them
  • Be a technical thought leader for your team, providing architectural and design direction
  • Continuously improve solution quality through code reviews, manual and automated testing
  • Set standards for excellence and develop processes that make the team continuously more efficient
  • Lead more junior engineers to deliver larger projects, including breaking down ambiguous problems into well-defined tasks, validating designs, and serving as POC for stakeholders
  • Design the systems and architecture to support processing petabytes of data efficiently

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience developing complex software products
  • 5+ years of programming in Ruby on Rails
  • Experience with AI coding tools, such as Claude Code
  • Experience with relational databases, such as Postgres

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience working in the CyberSecurity industry
  • Experience working with external APIs (particularly REST, OData, authZ and authN flows)
  • Familiarity with identity and resource security providers like m365, Okta, Google Workspaces, or similar
  • Experience with other data storage technologies (Clickhouse, Redis, ElasticSearch, Mongo, etc.)

Compensation & Benefits

  • Compensation Range: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity
  • 100% remote work environment
  • Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
  • 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
  • Life and Disability insurance plans
  • Stock options for all full-time employees
  • One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
  • Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
  • $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
  • Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

Skills

Ruby on RailsPostgresREST APIsOdataClickHouseRedisElasticsearchMongoDBAi Coding Tools

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