Senior Software Engineer - Cloud / Backend

We’re an impactful, and highly collaborative team aiming to bring excellence to the world of security and compliance. Every member of the team is an owner, with a lot of responsibility and the opportunity to play a critical role in building out the team and defining our culture. 

This position will be fully remote with the candidate ideally residing in Canada. 

What You'll Do

• Own our cloud data syncing layer and help scale to larger customers and faster data sync.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design and other stakeholders within Engineering to automate technical compliance requirements and maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment. Wear a product manager hat when needed.
• Build features that solve technical problems of high scope and complexityParticipate in planning activities.
• Contribute to codebases in Ruby on Rails; review codebases in Javascript.
• Mentor junior and intermediate engineers to help them level up and grow.
• Interact directly with customers

Who You Are

• You care about product ownership and solving problems for our customers.
• You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact.
• You care about your craft, and are looking to continually improve.

Who We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional work experience.
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Deep knowledge of IAM, networking, storage, compute, and logging services within AWS, GCP, and/or Azure; expertise within Digital Ocean or Heroku is a bonus!
• Experience deploying with Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or equivalents.
• Proficiency in a modern backend language (e.g., Ruby, Python, Go).
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively.
• Passion and ability to work well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.

Nice to Haves

• Basic knowledge of commercial (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001) and/or federal compliance frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, NIST 800-53); familiarity with GovCloud environments is a bonus!
• Experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch.
• Frontend development experience (HTML, CSS, TypeScript).
• Experience as a founder or at an early stage startup.