Staff Software Engineer - ESPM Platform (Ruby / Rails)
Skills
About the Role
You will join the Endpoint Security Posture Management (ESPM) team and be instrumental in building this new product from the ground up. You will create the technical vision and implement new features from the product roadmap, working closely with one of the co-founders. You will act as a technical leader, driving new ideas, building great software, and mentoring more junior engineers. You will make full use of AI coding tools to accelerate your development. You will build scalable solutions to emerging threats, often working on problems nobody has solved before. You will work across the stack, building new UI one day, scalable data models and event ingestions the next, and automated detectors to alert customers and the Security Operations Center to suspicious activity.
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
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
Benefits
- 100% remote work environment
- Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 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
