Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.
Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.
Our Opportunity
As a Staff Software Engineer at Snyk you will be a member of the wider Engineering Team and will drive technical leadership for one team or more. The Staff Software Engineer fundamentally improves the group product, team processes, and technical strategy, in alignment with overall business goals, while fostering an environment of collaboration, inclusion, and mentorship, leading by example.
You’ll Spend Your Time:
- Proactively identifying and designing improvements to the system for near-term and long-term strategic innovation for new products.
- Understanding, breaking down, clarifying, and tackling ambiguous design choices.
- Championing team members to grow and improve their technical skills.
- Identifying conflicts with other groups and seeking resolutions that improve on what either group did on their own.
- Assuring that internal SLOs for our service architecture are met by the group's external interfaces and APIs.
- Driving improvements to the stability, performance, and security across the group's 4-year evolution.
- Actively engaging in coding.
- Driving collaboration across the group, building trust between teammates, stakeholders, and other engineers.
- Proactively identifying potential challenges across the group, driving solutions to them, and influencing implementation.
- Modeling sustainable working for the group, making incremental and predictable changes.
- Engaging engineers across the group and enabling them to try new ideas and learn from trial and error (e.g. post-mortems).
- Growing good engineers into great engineers.
What You’ll Need:
- Experience working with one of our development languages (Typescript, Go), or are a polyglot with experience learning a new language.
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience, leading and mentoring engineers.
- Understanding the importance of automated testing (maybe with experience in TDD) and code quality.
- Prioritizing collaboration, pair programming, and code reviews.
- Working sustainably and iteratively, delivering high quality code using continuous delivery.
- Being comfortable working across the stack as part of a cross-functional team.
- Being approachable and friendly; an excellent communicator.
- Promoting testing as a natural part of any coding effort.
We’d be Lucky if You:
- Like to start new things, see them through to production, and learn from your mistakes.
- Love working in a fast-paced start-up environment that respects its engineers and customers.
- Enjoy solving complex technical problems.
- Feel comfortable working with uncertainties and unknowns.
We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!
About Snyk
Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.
Benefits & Programs
Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.
- Flexible working hours, work-from-home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self-development.
- Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers.
- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance.
- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances.