Senior Staff Software Engineer, Sysdig
$200-240k
+ Equity
Containers, Kubernetes, and cloud security
Job no longer available
Containers, Kubernetes, and cloud security
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$200-240k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make every cloud deployment secure and reliable.
Role
Who you are
- 10 plus years of experience in software development, with significant exposure to build systems at scale
- Demonstrated expertise as a technical leader
- In-depth understanding of data architectures, software engineering, and data science principles
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java or Go.
- Expertise in distributed systems, message queues, and deploying configurations at scale
- Experience with various cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and their services, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Object store, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Knowledge in sharding, horizontal scaling, auto-scaling, and the noisy neighbor problem
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Desirable
- Robust leadership skills with a history of coordinating cross-functional teams
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a curious mindset
- Experience mentoring and nurturing engineers
- Aptitude to convey complex technical details lucidly through strong communication skills
- Experience in a vibrant, agile, and innovative work setting
- Domain expertise in Cloud Detection and Response and Threat Detection
What the job involves
- Architectural Leadership:
- Offer architectural guidance across several engineering teams, ensuring consistent design principles and alignment with the company's long-term vision
- Guide teams with designing for scalability, extensibility, and stability in mind
- Devise systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and preempt potential bottlenecks
- Cross-Team Collaboration:
- Engage with engineering leaders and their teams to address complex technical issues
- Foster a collaborative environment within various technical teams
- Define guidelines, procedures, and policies in the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Technical Roadmap and Strategy:
- Influence the company's technical direction by contributing to the strategic engineering roadmap
- Propose the technical roadmap for innovative features
- Documentation & Quality Assurance:
- Establish documentation templates for both technical and functional specifications
- Supervise development workflows, embedding crucial quality assurance tests
- Project Management & Delivery:
- Estimate and plan cross-workstream projects
- Have technical responsibility for the delivery of several projects spanning different products and technologies, inclusive of tasks not directly implemented
- Manage escalations on technical decisions concerning various workstreams
- Propose an actionable recovery strategy for platform tech debt
- Innovation, Research, & Risk Management:
- Stay updated on industry trends and infuse new technologies to refine current infrastructure and systems
- Drive architectural design and authenticate non-functional requirements, including security and scalability
- Proactively pinpoint risks, escalating issues and risks to the appropriate stakeholders, along with suggested actions
- Stakeholder & Team Interaction:
- Manage and nurture key stakeholder relationships, including those from product and other engineering teams
- Collaborate and maintain regular communication with management and the broader company leadership team
- Step into complex customer cross-team escalations and guide them to resolution
Our take
As the use of containers and Kubernetes applications rise, enterprises implementing cloud apps face new security problems. These problems have created huge demand for security companies like Sysdig, which offers an open-source platform that manages security risks as companies run these modern cloud-based systems.
As well as its competitors, which include Dome9, Datadog, and Orca Security, Sysdig has enjoyed a surge in business, as more companies have had to adopt dynamic digital security solutions to enable remote working. Whilst much of its revenue comes from the US market, in recent years, it has expanded its footprint across the Middle East and Asia.
Having secured unicorn status in 2021, Sysdig remains a big player in the rapidly-growing public cloud market, with a list of impressive enterprise clients using its solutions including IBM, Goldman Sachs, Worldpay, ActiVision, and Booking.com.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Dec 2021
$350m
SERIES G
Apr 2021
$188m
SERIES F
Total funding: $729.5m
Company benefits
- Medical / Dental / Vision - In the US, full coverage for you and your dependents, starting day one. Internationally, we offer a range of market competitive benefits based on local markets
- Compensation and equity - Competitive pay and equity opportunities for all
- Flexible work - If your job doesn't require you to be in an office, we are flexible on location
- Well being - Access to the Modern Health platform globally for you and your family. In addition, we offer a monthly wellness allowance that can be used for a wide variety of services or expenses
- Work/life balance - We have an ongoing dialog and continue to build out policies and practices aimed at optimizing your work/life balance
- Career growth - Internal mobility, mentoring and training supported by regular feedback and development conversations
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Loris Degioanni
(CTO)After a PhD in Computer Engineering, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer for 6 moths prior to founding CACE Technologies in 2005. They then spent 2 years at Riverbed Technology, and founded Sysdig in April 2013, serving initially as CEO and since 2018 as CTO.
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