Senior Software Engineer, FOSSA
Analysis
CA$120-200k
+ Equity
Open source management platform
Open for applications
Open source management platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
CA$120-200k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To remove the friction between speed and compliance in today's software-driven world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building and supporting scalable SaaS products and features
- Experience as a full-stack software engineer owning and building features end-to-end
- Experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries
- Ability to break down complex problems, drive towards a solution, and communicate it with the team and other stakeholders (both verbally and written)
- You're comfortable navigating complex domains and building intuitive software for them
- You thrive in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals
- Proactive in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others
- Attention to detail and quality to anticipate edge cases ahead of time
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things
- You have 3+ years of experience working as a backend engineer
- Willingness to take part in an on-call rotation
- Ability to mentor and be mentored by others
- Experience with observability tooling
What the job involves
- As a senior software engineer on our team, you'll be working closely with the whole company to bring features from ideation to implementation
- Your participation will have a significant impact on our company roadmap, and you'll be able to see the outsized impact that your work has on our revenue
- Your day-to-day will be largely determined by what you want to work on: in a team of our size, our engineering team also helps own our product, customer success, and growth functions
- Work closely with the whole company to plan, design, build, and refine core product features
- Own user-impacting features from conception to completion
- Build and scale our core product and technical infrastructure
- Have significant ownership in our technical architecture and product roadmap
- Work in a variety of languages including Rust, Go, Typescript, and Haskell
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 a new product release and the recent 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 & CEO)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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