Senior Software Engineer, Truffle Security
Platform & Resiliency
$159-187.8k
Software for identifying and remediating leaked sensitive information
Job no longer available
Software for identifying and remediating leaked sensitive information
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$159-187.8k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make security issues more identifiable, accessible, and easier to fix.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about building resilient, high-performance systems and thrive in a collaborative environment, we'd love to meet you!
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, infrastructure or platform engineering
- A strong sense of ownership demonstrated through delivering production-grade systems with strong testing, monitoring, and documentation practices
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and Go are preferred
- Comfortable collaborating cross-functionally to design and deploy reliable, scalable systems
- Experience operating and optimizing infrastructure at scale, with a focus on high availability and performance
- Familiarity with SRE principles, including incident response, observability, and reliability engineering
- Eager to learn continuously; we don’t expect you to know everything from the start
- Excited about working in a small company with opportunities for ownership
Desirable
- Passion for open source and cybersecurity is a plus!
- Experience working at an early-stage startup
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Passionate about improving developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an interest in infrastructure to join our Platform & Resiliency team
- This role requires an individual who is experienced with writing applications and services in Go
- In this role, you’ll configure, maintain and improve our systems running on Kubernetes in GCP, configured via Terraform
- You’ll enhance our monitoring and observability systems which use Prometheus, Grafana and OTel
- And you’ll build and improve our product hosting platform
- Improve our cloud infrastructure management running on Kubernetes and setup with Terraform
- Developing and enhancing our product hosting platform
- Troubleshoot and architecturally improve our HTTP and gRPC clients and servers
- Work with other engineers to enhance the overall customer experience of our systems through seamless and stable deployments
- Engage in continuous learning and skill development on the job
Our take
Data breaches can be detrimental to companies, particularly when they regard the leaking of sensitive data such as private keys and login credentials. However, such breaches are common and can be difficult to identify due to the vast range of platforms and SaaS that modern businesses use, often resulting in leaks only being identified when it's too late to prevent.
Truffle Security provides a software tool named TruffleHog that identifies and remediates sensitive information that has leaked within a business's digital infrastructure, running scans automatically to catch vulnerable data before it leaks. The software integrates within major SaaS platforms such as Slack, AWS, Gmail, and Github, also offering bespoke integration services for unique business infrastructures.
Whilst many cybersecurity platforms can identify the source of data leaks early to minimize their impact, Truffle Security has recognized that this is often too little too late. By constantly scanning business environments behind the scenes, the company shows great potential to disrupt the data protection market by completely preventing data leaks and thus removing the need for recovery specialists.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2025
$25m
SERIES B
Dec 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with 6% company match
- Flexible paid time off: 14 paid holidays, including Thanksgiving and Winter break, and "Truffle Holidays" where the entire company takes a day off
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage: 80% Premium coverage for employees & their dependents
- Remote work stipend: $800 new hire stipend, and $100monthly thereafter. We want you to be comfortable working remotely
- Health & wellness stipend: $1,200/year. Maintaining your physical mental, and emotional well-being is foundational to doing your best work
- Learning & development stipend: $2,000/year. Adopting a growth-mindset allows you to grow professionaly and personally
- Company off-sites: We’re 100% remote with no office, but won’t let that stop us from working closely together. Past destinations have included Hawaii, Cabo, Chicago, Savannah, and the Rocky Mountains
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dylan Ayrey
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS in Computer Engineering. Experienced Senior Security Partner having worked at Netflix.
Dustin Decker
(Co-Founder & CTO)Before co-founding Truffle Security, they were a Senior Security Engineer at Cruise and an Application Security Engineer at Indeed.
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