Senior Software Engineer, Lookout
Backend
CA$116-145k
+ Bonus + equity
Data-centric defense-in-depth solution
Be an early applicant
Data-centric defense-in-depth solution
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$116-145k
+ Bonus + equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure and empower productivity in a privacy-focused world, where work can happen anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field/degree with at least 3-5 years of work experience
- Professional programming experience with Golang, Python, Scala, Java and/or Ruby+Rails
- Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals and algorithms
- Experience with event streaming frameworks, technologies, patterns and architectures (particularly Kafka or similar)
- Experience with implementing secure, scalable API services
- Experience with transactional databases and data modeling (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB or equivalent)
- Cloud development experience (especially AWS)
- A pragmatic and curious problem-solver. You thrive on breaking down complex challenges, asking insightful questions to understand the "why," and delivering effective, practical solutions
- A high-ownership collaborator with keen attention to detail. You take full accountability for your work, communicate clearly with your team, and are obsessed with shipping high-quality, well-crafted code
Desirable
- Experience with serverless architectures on AWS, GCP
- Experience with Kubernetes, container technology (Docker, ECS, EKS)
- Experience with functional programming in TypeLevel Scala (cats-effect, ZIO, FS2, etc)
- Experience with ML/LLMs (prompt engineering, RAG, classification, NLP, fine tuning etc) is a huge plus
- Experience with AI development tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Github Copilot, etc
What the job involves
- You will be part of a dynamic and technically diverse group of engineers, where you will get to contribute, influence, learn and grow top notch technical skill sets, while building key features for our customers
- Implement large scale, low latency microservices, including discovering and solving complex issues at scale
- We believe in, and practice, end to end service ownership, so you will fully participate in the ownership of your services and components, including on-call duties
- Quality is the forefront of all we do, so you will assist with improving all forms of automated testing (unit, integration, functional etc)
- Help troubleshoot, analyze and root cause issues in the platform
- You will work on microservices built with Golang, Scala, Java and Ruby, hosted in AWS
Our take
Lookout is a cybersecurity company offering integrated endpoint-to-cloud security services. As more businesses move to the cloud, there has become a greater need for endpoint-to-cloud security services that secure business data. Lookout provides cybersecurity services that protect businesses from privacy risks as an increasing number of business processes become connected and digital.
The biggest competitor to Lookout is SASA (secure access service edge) platforms, which create a perimeter of data protection for businesses in the cloud. However, Lookout aims to provide a unique service to SASA platforms by offering a less invasive cybersecurity product that respects user privacy on personal devices.
The co-founders of Lookout set out to provide individuals and businesses with better security protection before smartphones were in widespread use. The company will continue to adapt and develop its services in an attempt to protect security and privacy in an increasingly digital world. Substantial funding, indicative of the demand for a unified security platform to streamline data protection, will support its continued growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2020
$50m
SERIES F
Aug 2014
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $332m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Fitness reimbursement
- Company match for charitable donations
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Work-from-home support
- Anniversary awards
- All-hands gatherings
- Community groups
- Team-building activities
- Paid time off
- Volunteer time off
- Company holidays
- Global holiday shutdown
Company HQ
Trimble Business Area, San Jose, CA
Leadership
John Hering
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Policy, Planning, and Development. Previously co-founded DailyWireless, which was acquired by Tippit and then co-founded Lookout in 2007.
James Burgess
(Co-Founder & CIO)Graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Social Sciences. Previously co-founded DailyWireless where they served as the Director of Operations.
Kevin Mahaffey
(Co-Founder)Graduated from the University of Southern California with a BS in Electrical Engineering. An Executive Chairman at Stork Club and the founder of SNR.
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