Staff Software Engineer

Snyk; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in developer security is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Developer Experience team in London. The role involves analyzing and implementing large-scale solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to innovative projects that enhance security for millions of developers. Candidates should have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly in designing reliable systems and proficiency in key programming languages.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and wellness time off

Health benefits and employee assistance plans

Country-specific life insurance and retirement programs

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience in large-scale software systems design.
• Proficiency in Go or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, and implement high-quality solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead technical efforts.
• Communicate regularly with team and stakeholders.

Skills

Software Engineering

Communication

Mentoring

Problem Solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud Platforms

Job description

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Snyk, you will play a significant role in the company's technical leadership. You will set direction and drive consensus with other engineers to transform Snyk’s technical landscape and help build the next generation of technical leaders.

As a part of our Developer Experience team you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact on a wide range of projects, from mastering existing services to building new, cutting-edge features. Your contributions will directly impact the success of our product and the security of millions of developers worldwide.

You’ll Spend Your Time:

1. Analyze, design, and implement high-quality, large-scale solutions to Snyk’s most complex technical problems with a keen eye towards scale, efficiency, reliability, and quality.
2. Work with peers and across teams to design and implement solutions to large-scale problems.
3. Communicate regularly in written and verbal forms to team, peers, and senior leads.
4. You’ll have end-to-end ownership for the delivery of critical efforts, and lead peers in delivering particularly broad efforts as a technical lead.
5. Mentor junior engineers and help grow the next generation of engineers at Snyk.

What You’ll Need:

• At least 7 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience in large-scale software systems design, and familiarity with fundamental computer science concepts (algorithms, complexity, data structures).
• Proficiency in at least one of our core programming languages (Go, TypeScript), and a willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies.
• Experience in at least one of:
• Building highly reliable, scalable microservice back-ends for web APIs or applications, or other types of large-scale, high reliability systems.
• Building web UIs, CLIs or APIs for use by other engineers.
• Building infrastructure or platform automation, or observability or release tools.
• Demonstrable skill in effective software testing.
• Strong commitment to code quality, and the value of giving and receiving feedback through code reviews.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, and respond with agility when requirements and priorities change.
• Highly effective communicator both verbally and in writing at all levels of the organization. Able to work collaboratively, be curious and have a growth mindset.
• Track record of working with peers across the organization to deliver solutions outside of their immediate scope.
• Ability to lift the performance of a team through coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers.

We’d be Lucky if You:

• Have a proven track record of leading projects and inspiring engineering teams to achieve results.
• Experienced with Kubernetes or major cloud platforms from Google, Amazon and Microsoft Azure.
• Possess an SRE background in keeping systems healthy and happy.
• Contribute to open-source projects and share your knowledge with the dev community.
• Experienced in distributed system architectural challenges.
• Embrace the cloud-native world and/or have Docker experience.
• Proven experience in deploying and maintaining software in production environments.
• Enjoy the challenge of finding the right alerting, monitoring and SLOs for your services.
• Enjoy working on early stage products; talking with customers to identify, prioritize and solve problems iteratively and build something that they really love.
• Feed off complex technical problems and find solutions where others see roadblocks.
• Embrace challenges and learn from them.

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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

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