Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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September 16

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Synack, Inc.

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Synack is the premier security testing platform harnessing a vetted community of the world’s most talented security researchers to deliver continuous penetration testing and vulnerability management. We help our customers build and augment their security testing capabilities and capacity to deliver transformational results—better than traditional pentesting methods. We are committed to reducing cybersecurity risk for our customers by bridging the cybersecurity talent gap and giving organizations on-demand access to the most trusted network of researchers in a secure way, all on one platform.

201 - 500 employees

📋 Description

• Develop and integrate cybersecurity testing and analysis systems with best-in-class cybersecurity platform • Build high-performance, resilient, scalable cloud-based software, utilizing AI technologies, microservices architecture and containers • Take software through CI/CD all the way to production and own its quality and availability • Utilize GCP platform to build and run highly-available software systems • Identify and resolve performance issues across systems and components • Collaborate on a cross-functional team, working with Product, Operations, and DevOps • Integrate monitoring and alerting capabilities with backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times • Design, implement and deliver well-tested, scalable, highly available systems • Own and ideate technical solutions for product requirements and user stories • Actively engage and participate in design and code reviews • Offer guidance and support to junior team members, encouraging and cultivating a culture of continuous learning within the team • Ensure Synack's security and privacy posture is maintained

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in distributed-systems and backend software engineering • Experience with AI technologies, e.g. LLMs, RAG, MCP, etc. • Recent experience with golang preferred; candidates with expertise in Java, C#, Rust, C/C++ considered if committed to transition to golang • Strong experience and understanding of microservices, REST API design, gRPC, writing unit testing, BDD testing • Strong design skills required – UML is a bonus; exposure to Domain Driven Design desirable • Experience with asynchronous messaging technologies such as Google PubSub, Kafka • In depth knowledge of NoSQL and RDBMS technologies • Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Environments (GCP preferred) • Experience working on agile teams • Excellent communication and collaboration skills in all mediums • Experience working on and scaling a microservice-based application • A proven ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts • U.S. citizenship required (can only hire U.S. citizens due to federal government contract requirements)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Benefits (see https://synack.mybenefits.life; Employer code: synack) • Remote position (U.S.-based)