Senior Software Engineer - Education team

Our Opportunity

The Snyk Education team is on a mission to dramatically increase the number of educated, security-aware developers, leading to more secure software development for years to come. We will do this by becoming the one-stop, go-to destination for developers and security practitioners to learn about secure software practices and how to be successful with the Snyk platform through product training.

The team is specifically responsible for building and evolving learn.snyk.io, with exciting roadmap plans for the rest of 2024!

You’ll Spend Your Time:

• Building Education products for Developers and Enterprise, maintaining + scaling our platform and infrastructure. 
• Bringing our Education technology to Snyk’s multi-region platform as an integrated solution. 
• Pair-programming and collaboratively building the services that power Snyk Education
• Using best practices and new technologies to maintain and extend our existing services
• Working across the full stack and entire development life cycle to build, test, deploy, and support high-quality, reliable, fast services that power Snyk
• Collaborating with other teams to build a product everyone truly loves
• Continuously delivering small, high-quality changes to production at a sustainable pace
• Identifying potential improvements in our team processes and workflows and driving the changes needed to address them
• Supporting and growing the other engineers in your team through pairing, feedback, and mentoring 
• Investigating and addressing performance and scalability concerns across our services as we grow
• Evolving our technology and architecture to meet the challenges ahead.
• Participating in our on-call rotation (compensated)

What You’ll Need:

• Experience with Node/Javascript/Typescript/PostgreSQL, or are a polyglot with experience learning a new language
• Collaboration skills for paired programming and code reviews, and enjoyment in working with others 
• The ability to talk about potentially complex technical concepts in ways that make it easy for others to understand
• High standards for code quality, testing, and continuous delivery 
• Comfort working with multiple teams and across the stack to deliver new features from ideation to production
• A fast-paced approach, fitting a start-up/scale-up environment using product-led practices
• Comfort working with uncertainties and unknowns

We’d be Lucky if You: 

• Have a demonstrable track record of project leadership and mentorship of software engineers
• Have experience contributing to an educational platform
• Have worked on Enterprise capabilities like Role Based Access and Reporting
• Talked at conferences or presented to developer audiences
• Are familiar with distributed system architecture