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Staff Software Engineer

200k – 220kUnited StatesRemote10+ YOE
Summary

Staff Software Engineer building and scaling a new Endpoint Security Posture Management platform from the ground up. Focus on Ruby on Rails, data pipelines, and petabyte-scale systems while mentoring junior engineers.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end solutions using primarily Ruby on Rails
  • Deliver code quickly and efficiently for rapid value delivery and testing
  • 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 building scalable solutions to emerging threats
  • Experience working across the stack (UI, data models, event ingestion, automated detectors)
Skills
Ruby on RailsRubyPostgreSQLAI coding toolsClaude CodeRelational databasesData pipelinesCode reviewAutomated testingSystem architecture
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