Senior Software Engineer, Snyk
3+ days a week in office
Developer security platform
Open for applications
Developer security platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to develop fast and stay secure.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about crafting exceptional software, solving complex problems, and driving innovation
- At least 5 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer
- Experience in large-scale software systems design, and familiarity with fundamental computer science concepts (algorithms, complexity, data structures)
- Proficiency in at least one of our core programming languages (Go, TypeScript), and a willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies
- Experience in at least one of:
- Building highly reliable, scalable microservice back-ends for web APIs or applications, or other types of large-scale, high reliability systems
- Building web UIs, CLIs or APIs for use by other engineers
- Building infrastructure or platform automation, or observability or release tools
- Demonstrable skill in effective software testing
- Strong commitment to code quality, and the value of giving and receiving feedback through code reviews
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, and respond with agility when requirements and priorities change
- Effective communicator both verbally and in writing. Able to work collaboratively, be curious and have a growth mindset
- Ability to lift the performance of a team through coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers
Desirable
- Enjoy working on early stage products; talking with customers to identify, prioritize and solve problems iteratively and build something that they really love
- Feed off complex technical problems and find solutions where others see roadblocks
- Embrace challenges and learn from them
What the job involves
- Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Snyk, you'll be at the forefront of building the future of application security
- You’ll be challenged to create high-performance, reliable, and scalable services while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams
- As a part of our Developer Experience team you’ll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, from mastering existing services to building new, cutting-edge features. Your contributions will directly impact the success of our product and the security of millions of developers worldwide
- Analyzing, designing and implementing high-quality solutions to problems with well-tested, maintainable code
- Building systems with the long-term in mind, focusing on good design, robust testing, and sustainability from the perspective of cost and scale
- Supporting our customers by resolving bugs and customer support escalations
- Designing solutions to problems which typically require multiple engineers to implement
- Demonstrating end-to-end ownership for the delivery of key efforts, and leading peers in the delivery of particularly broad efforts as a technical lead
- Providing mentorship to more junior engineers, and playing a role in growing the next generation of engineers at Snyk
Our take
Open source software is a highly lucrative market and is growing fast. However, open source components can come with vulnerabilities, and so their widespread use in apps becomes a liability to a company’s cybersecurity. Snyk has built a way to detect when those apps or components are compromised.
The company works with developers, who are now commonly the owners of application security. It integrates into existing developer workflows, compatible with the likes of GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab, as well as CI/CD. Snyk also varies its approach with enterprises depending on their security needs, working on-premises, via the cloud or a hybrid. This puts the company in a strong position to target all enterprises as customers. In this, Snyk has already been successful - it has hundreds of customers, including Google and Salesforce.
Valued at $8.5bn back in 2021, Snyk has lately been focused on growth and platform improvement. It is not alone in the space, with competitors including SonarQube and Veracode, but has nonetheless remained one of the largest market players; raising funds in 2023 that come alongside an integration with ServiceNow, to further bolster the value of its offerings.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
35% female employees
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"Some of the smartest people I have ever worked with and people are always willing to help, so this impacts you directly. Hugely experienced..."
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jan 2023
$25m
LATE VC
Dec 2022
$196.5m
SERIES G
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Work-from home allowances & in-office perks
- Time off for learning and self development
- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance with unlimited one-on-one wellness coaching sessions
- Generous vacation and wellness time off, and country-specific holidays
- 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs
- Mobile phone and education allowances
- Snyk Impact - Build a more inclusive tech industry and help us power a more sustainable and secure world with Snyk Impact programs
Company values
- Care deeply - We create positive change: We lead with empathy for our customers, partners, and Snykers globally to evolve our customers’ organizations, as well as communities in which we live and work.
- One team - We rely on each other: We extend beyond geographical and departmental limits, fostering collaboration, inclusion, and transparency in the ways we work and support each other.
- Customer Centric - We drive business impact: We build security solutions, adapting quickly to market changes to provide an outstanding customer experience, leading to adoption and high satisfaction.
- Forward Thinking - We shape the future: We are driven by our ambition to inspire trust and lead the industry, surpassing limits to build unparalleled technology.
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
Articles
Leadership
Guy Podjarny
(President and Chairman of the Board)Founded Blaze (optimising websites) and was acquired by Akamai 2 years later. Guy then was CTO for Akamai for 4 years.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Snyk
Ashley Ladd (Director, Diversity, Inclusion & Social Impact)
- At Snyk, we're on a mission to make the digital world a safer place and we believe that a safer world starts with one that reflects all of us. From our global team at Snyk to our customers and partners around the world, we're building a company that celebrates our differences and leverages them as our strength. Snyk's core values secure our deeply connected culture, and help us to foster a safe, and inclusive company where everyone belongs.
- Snyk Resource Groups (SRGs) are Snyker-led groups whose purpose is to foster a community-focused, inclusive workplace where all employees feel like they belong. Through strategic programming, community building, networking events, and professional development opportunities, SRGs are the catalyst of Snyk’s inclusion, equity, and diversity efforts.. To date, we have six SRGs: Accessibility@Snyk, Asian@Snyk, Black@Snyk, Mosaic@Snyk, Queer@Snyk, SnykHER. Learn more about our SRG missions at: https://snyk.io/careers/
- We envision a more inclusive industry powering a more sustainable and secure digital world. Our focus on addressing problems for our social and environmental stakeholders positively impacts society and builds momentum for the entire Snyk community. Learn more at: https://snyk.io/about/snyk-impact/
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