Senior Software Engineer

🔥 18 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $153k - $166k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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The College Board

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1900

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. It connects students to college success and opportunity by supporting them in building essential skills for higher education and removing barriers to access. The College Board operates with a focus on respect, diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, with a diverse and dedicated team of professionals. Based in several locations across the United States, they strive to modernize operations and increase their digital footprint, supporting students and families nationwide.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with engineers using ensemble or mob programming methodologies to build and operate product security solutions • Build, operate, and maintain software and automation solutions in a growing cloud environment • Support secure delivery of College Board digital products and security of College Board infrastructure • Design, implement, and operationalize automated preventive and detective guardrails across enterprise cloud environments • Build and enforce enterprise-wide controls that prevent or automatically remediate high-risk misconfigurations • Improve protection coverage for internet-facing systems by validating asset inventories and expanding enforcement mechanisms • Evaluate control effectiveness through telemetry, compliance validation, and risk trend analysis • Embed secure-by-default infrastructure patterns into reusable modules and deployment workflows • Enhance and operationalize Unified Vulnerability Management workflows • Automate vulnerability intake, enrichment, ticketing, and response workflows • Design engineering solutions to improve detection quality and response speed with Cyber Operations • Translate security requirements into scalable implementations using infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks • Measure and report workflow efficiency and risk reduction outcomes using operational metrics • Implement standardized, automated security checks in Backstage across code security, CSPM, and vulnerability management domains • Establish a quantifiable product security maturity model backed by Backstage telemetry and Security Scorecard outputs • Ensure continuity of CSPM coverage and dependent tool integrations during CloudGuard platform replacement • Deliver a proof-of-concept of the replacement CSPM tool and address capability gaps through engineering solutions • Contribute to documentation, engineering standards, and continuous improvement practices

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated software engineering experience and proficiency using JavaScript and TypeScript • 5+ years of experience with extensive exposure to numerous aspects of software engineering and demonstrated full stack proficiency using JavaScript and TypeScript • Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS), including IAM, KMS, EC2, EventBridge, ECS, Config, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, and others • Experience using AWS CloudFormation, CDK, or Serverless Framework • Working knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling • Experience establishing software engineering guidelines and performing code and design reviews • Experience documenting design and architecture artifacts and presenting artifacts for architectural review • Ability to operate in fast-moving environments where standards and tooling evolve • Experience in pair programming or mob programming methodologies • Experience in DevOps and CI/CD automation and tooling • Strong knowledge of cloud security, application security, and security engineering • Experience as part of a Platform Engineering team and/or contributing to open-source projects • AWS professional-level certification or AWS Security Specialty certification is a plus • Database experience with SQL and/or NoSQL • Experience with advanced Agentic Engineering or AIDLC (AI Development Lifecycle) • Authorization to work in the United States for any employer • Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions, and comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively • Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills • Learner's mindset and commitment to growth • Drive for impact and excellence • Collaborative and empathetic approach

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work option • Hybrid work option for candidates living near College Board offices (Tuesday and Wednesday in office) • Comprehensive compensation and benefits package • Fair and competitive compensation • Location-adjusted salaries • Transparent conversations about compensation and benefits • Meaningful career and supportive team • Mission-driven work at a self-sustaining nonprofit