Senior Software Engineer, Contrast Security
Software security platform
Job no longer available
Software security platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help software-driven companies take full advantage of the application economy by getting secure code moving across their complete software development lifecycle.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building highly scalable Java backends using Spring and MySQL hosted in AWS
- You have at least 5 years of experience building modern, scalable, and high-performing backend web applications
- You have experience in a technical leadership role where you’ve designed technical requirements and mentored junior engineers implementing them
- You have significant experience working with Java / Spring or similar to design and implement robust and scalable APIs
- You are highly proficient with MySQL or similar databases
- You have experience with event streaming technologies such as Kafka and search/analytics technologies (OpenSearch or similar)
- You have experience in developing with Docker and deploying to Kubernetes or similar containerized environments
- You're a problem solver. You believe the best work is the result of finding the simplest solution to complex challenges
- Your code is clean, your designs are elegant and you are constantly refactoring
- You own your work. Whether a nasty bug or an awesome feature, you put your name on every line of code
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
What the job involves
- Contrast is seeking a senior software engineer to join our growing engineering team
- You will lead a small team building a suite of verification tools that will improve the accuracy of Contrast’s findings by automatically detecting when vulnerabilities have been resolved, saving our customers time by allowing them to focus on active, high-confidence findings
- In this role, you will lead the team through all phases of the software development lifecycle, with a heavy focus on research, design, and development
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of verification solutions in close collaboration with product managers, security researchers, and customer-facing field teams
- Build and maintain performant backends using Java, Spring, MySQL, ActiveMQ, and Kubernetes
- Constantly collaborate with junior team members, including mentoring, pair programming, design review, and pull requests
- Pilot new initiatives to keep our technology stack ahead of the curve
- Help provide support for the system, including running deployments, monitoring production systems, and triaging bug reports from our world-class support team
Our take
As cyberattackers become more sophisticated, security software needs to do the same to protect an organization's technological infrastructure. But rather than having security software that performs disruptive scanning or specialized security experts, it is better for software applications to protect themselves. Less holes can be exploited if attack prevention features are fully integrated.
Contrast Security is a software security platform pioneering a new era of self-protecting software. The company claims that only its software contains sensors that are embedded within applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise. This enables teams to accelerate development cycles at scale.
However, the reality of cybersecurity is that there is no silver bullet. Thus, despite demonstrating unique and impressive value, Contrast will always be fighting for dollars with competitors like Veracode. Nevertheless, the company's continued development of new capabilities is sure to keep it in the game.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Feb 2019
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $269m
Company benefits
- Dental & vision cover
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- Competitive compensation package (salary + equity)
- A fun and dynamic environment where you work with other like minded people on products which make a real difference to the security of our customers
- Free in-office lunches every day
- Healthcare packages
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Arshan Dabirsiaghi
(Advisor)Initially served as Chief Scientist at the company before transitioning into their current role in September 2022. CTO of a current Stealth Startup. Former director of Research at Aspect Security, Master of Computer Science at Towson University.
Jeff Williams
(CTO)Former founder and CEO at Aspect Security, former director at Global Security Practice, Masters in Human Factors at George Mason University.
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