Software Engineer, FOSSA
Core Team
$130-185k
Open source management platform
Posted today
Open source management platform
21-100 employees
Posted today
$130-185k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To remove the friction between speed and compliance in today's software-driven world.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping scalable SaaS products, with real ownership of what you built
- Experience as a full-stack software engineer owning and building features end-to-end
- Solid experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries
- Experience working in a large existing codebase, including proactivity in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others
- Experience with agentic tooling and AI-assisted workflows, or a strong interest in getting good at using them. We use these tools daily and expect them to keep changing how we build
- Ability to break down complex problems, drive towards a solution, and communicate it with the team and other stakeholders (both verbally and written)
- You thrive in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals
- Ability to mentor and be mentored by others
- Experience with observability tooling
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things
- Attention to detail and quality to anticipate edge cases ahead of time
What the job involves
- The Core team owns the heart of the FOSSA product: the application our customers log into every day, the APIs and integrations they build on, and the data model everything else depends on. It is where the majority of customer-facing work lands, which means you will see the impact of what you build almost immediately
- This is a full-stack role. You will work across the product, from the database up through the API to the interface, and you will own features end to end rather than handing them off at a boundary. We are looking for someone who cares about the whole outcome: the design, the code, the rollout, and what happens after it ships
- Design, build, and ship full-stack features that customers use daily, from database schema through to interface
- Own your work end to end, including scoping, implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-through once it is live
- Work in a variety of languages and tools, including Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Postgres
- Partner with product, design, and support to turn customer problems into working software
- Improve the reliability and performance of a system that runs at meaningful scale for large enterprise customers
- Review code thoughtfully and help raise the quality bar for the team
- Take part in an on-call rotation and help make the systems you own easier to operate
Our take
FOSSA (Free Open-Source Software Auditing) provides companies an open-source management platform for identifying open-source components in a company’s source code. This helps companies avoid potentially costly licensing infringements, and steer clear of vulnerabilities.
The developer cybersecurity market is a multi billion industry, and FOSSA has made strong headway into it since being founded in 2015. It has secured Uber, Verizon, and UiPath among its high-profile customer base. This is perhaps because FOSSA’s proposition truly seems win-win: developers receive guidance on the best open-source software, and companies shore themselves up against cyberthreats, non-compliance fines, and litigation.
FOSSA’s investment round success has begun modestly compared with more mature competitor Snyk, or the hefty seed funding of startup Apiiro. Nevertheless, its impressive client roster, combined with new product releases and the purchase of StackShare, suggests it is well on track to benefit from an anticipated boom in cybersecurity.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2020
$23.2m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$8.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33.9m
Company benefits
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Remote-first workforce
- Parental leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kevin Wang
(Founder & Chair)After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science, Kevin was a Platform Engineer for Cloudera, which aimed to transform complex data into actionable insights. They were a Creator at TLDRLegal and Advisor at OSS Capital before founding FOSSA.
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