Senior Software Engineer, SecurityScorecard
$160-185k
OTE
+ stock options
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
Be an early applicant
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-185k
OTE
+ stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SecurityScorecard's mission is to make the world a safer place by transforming the way organisations understand, mitigate, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend systems, platform services, or infrastructure
- Expertise in Node.js and modern development patterns (TypeScript/JavaScript)
- Solid experience designing and scaling distributed systems with strong focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and production-grade deployments
- Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, and containerization (Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, New Relic)
- Strong computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems design, and networking)
- Excellent communication skills and successful collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Passion for mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and helping teams grow
Desirable
- Experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or other security-focused platforms
- Familiarity with front-end development and full-stack delivery practices
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tools, or SDKs
- Background working with high-scale systems and large datasets
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our Platform team — a strategic, hands-on technical leader who will own and evolve the foundational systems that power SecurityScorecard’s core products
- You’ll work across the stack to build scalable services, optimize infrastructure, and improve internal tooling. Collaborating with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders, you will accelerate development velocity, improve reliability, and ensure our platform evolves with scale in mind
- This role is both people- and technology-focused: you’ll mentor engineers while guiding complex technical initiatives around microservices architecture, distributed systems, infrastructure, and automation
- Architect, design, and build scalable platform components using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and React
- Build and maintain distributed systems, real-time pipelines, and core microservices to support platform growth
- Lead code and architecture reviews to uphold high standards for reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Contribute to and drive adoption of modern infrastructure practices — CI/CD, containerization (Docker), ArgoCD, Terraform, GitHub Actions
- Own and deliver impactful projects end-to-end, translating business needs and R&D insights into scalable technical solutions
- Identify opportunities to reduce toil, improve developer workflows, and increase system resiliency
- Build systems for the long term — balancing speed of delivery with sustainability and technical excellence
- Take part in production support responsibilities
- Our Tech Stack:
- Programming Languages: Mainly TypeScript / JavaScript; subsystems may use other languages
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins
- Production Monitoring: New Relic
- Databases: ClickHouse, PostgreSQL
Our take
Organisations understand the value of data and the value of business partnerships that will help them leverage it. However, involving more companies increases the risk of vulnerabilities and, therefore, costly data breaches. SecurityScorecard is a cloud-based enterprise SaaS solution that helps organisations assess and manage cybersecurity risks, offering analyses of potential partner companies using A-F security ratings.
SecurityScorecard looms over its competitors as it covers millions of companies, offering near-instant cybersecurity analyses and an array of capabilities. It has a large, global, and big-name customer base, including 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 9 of the top 10 banking institutions, and it is likely to go public in the next few years.
It has both developed and consolidated an impressive lead in a sector that will continue to grow and reward cutting-edge security solutions. Security Scorecard set to remain an industry leader with demonstrable, accessible, and highly attractive customer offerings. In 2024, this included a supply chain cyber risk management platform - MAX - which is driving record revenue.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2021
$180m
SERIES E
Jun 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $292.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave / 4 weeks paid paternity leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K
- $3k annual education stipend per employee
- Full access to our learning platform and company professional development events
- Up to $10K referral bonus
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Aleksandr Yampolskiy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at Oracle and Goldman Sachs, before serving for 2 years as CISO of Gilt Group. Founded NYC Technology Startup, Meetup, in 2012 and then worked as CTO of Cinchcast.
Sam Kassoumeh
(Co-Founder & COO)Progressed from Technology Compliance Manager to Head of Security and Compliance at Gilt Groupe within 4 years, and worked as Cyber Security Advisor for Billy.
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