Senior Software Engineer, Tines
Backend
+ Startup equity
No-code automation for security teams
Open for applications
No-code automation for security teams
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Startup equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the lives of security and operations teams on the frontlines easier.
Role
Who you are
- Roughly 7+ years as a professional software engineer
- Proven track record of success as a senior software engineer
- You’ll need direct experience of building and delivering software using a high-level programming language
- You can use a language you’re comfortable with to complete the coding section
- Your abilities matter, not your education or exactly where you’ve worked
- Our main languages are Ruby and TypeScript, but you don’t have to be familiar with those - we value curiosity and an eagerness to learn
- We take application security seriously, but for this role you don’t need any experience in that area
- While your main focus will be on our backend job and event processing system, you’ll work right across our stack
- You don’t need to have experience in all of these areas, but you will need to be excited to pitch in anywhere when needed, with the support of your teammates
- This allows us to be more effective as a team, and provides a lot of opportunities for you to learn
- We’re focused on the most important problems, not the most interesting ones
- Your time and energy are limited, so in order to succeed you’ll need to spend it where it will make a difference
- We view technologies as a means to an end, and stick to simple, common tools - Ruby, Rails, React, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, AWS CDK, and Docker
What the job involves
- You’ll join the team primarily responsible for scaling the throughput and performance of the core, backend job processing engine at Tines
- However, since we’re still a small but growing software engineering organization, this role is not strictly limited to any single part of our product or stack
- This role is about more than writing code: you'll have an influential voice in shaping our technical direction, our product, and our culture
- You can make use of our Tines office space in Dublin to meet up with other members of the engineering team when you wish
- You'll work closely with colleagues to build the right solutions to the problems our customers face
- Make valuable changes in our codebase in your first week, and see them live in production minutes after merging them
- Shape how workflow execution happens at the very heart of our system, to help us power the world’s most important workflows
- Write and review high quality, well tested code to ensure that we’re creating a stable product for our customers, and a stress-free codebase for ourselves
- Identify areas for improvement, both in our codebase and in how we work, and share the responsibility of making our team better
- Own the problems you’re solving - and the software you write to solve them - all the way to production and beyond, responding to customer feedback to improve those solutions
- Use your knowledge to mentor other engineers in our team, providing support and guidance to help them grow their abilities
- Projects you might work on:
- Improve action throughput to meet our growing customers’ scale
- Create internal and customer facing controls that allow Tines and our customers to configure job prioritization levels, ensuring the most critical workflows are executed in a timely manner
- Optimize the storage and search of customers’ event data
- Ensure jobs are executed in a balanced and fair manner, particularly on multitenant stacks
- Enhance Tines' observability by introducing new features that empower customers to monitor the status and latency of their workflows and receive proactive alerts about potential issues
- Write a blog post to share something interesting we learned with the community
- This role is broad, not specialized
Application process
- Our interview process includes a Byteboard exercise which involves adding features to a small command-line app, so you should feel very comfortable working at that level of technical complexity
Our take
Burn-out among security analysts is a real and present challenge to many enterprises. Tines's automation platform solves this problem by automating outdated, slow and complex manual security processes.
The company's solutions are designed to save security teams valuable time and energy, allowing them to focus on more business-critical tasks. The value of this offering is clear, and has seen the company serve an impressive range of clients including OpenTable and Box.
In a relatively short space of time, Tines has proven itself to be a market leader, and has raised substantial funding across a number of rounds. The latest investment will be used to broaden the company's technological capabilities and expand its global reach, ensuring that it remains at the forefront of the space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2025
$125m
SERIES C
Apr 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $271.1m
Company benefits
- Startup equity & extended exercise window
- Matching retirement plans
- Home office setup
- Private healthcare plans
- 25 days annual leave
- Extra company holidays
- Generous parental leave programs
- Flexibility in how and where you work
- Phone and home Internet allowance
Company HQ
Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Eoin Hinchy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Was a Senior Information Security Engineer at eBay, and Senior Director of Cyber Security at DocuSign.
Thomas Kinsella
(Co-Founder & CCO)Was an IT Security and Forensics Specialist at Deloitte, and Lead eCrime Investigator at eBay. Worked as Senior Director of Security Operations at DocuSign.
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