Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

DNSFilter; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

DNSFilter is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails to enhance their product offerings. This fully remote role involves building scalable solutions and collaborating with distributed teams. Candidates should have extensive experience in Ruby and a passion for quality and innovation in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

100% work-from-home position

Flexible Vacation policy

Full medical, dental, and vision benefits

Home office buildout allowance

Paid company-wide week off at the end of each year

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building highly scalable products using Ruby on Rails.
• Proficiency in Ruby and working knowledge of another language.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and other data stores.

Responsibilities

• Write, maintain, and test code using Ruby on Rails, GoLang, and other languages.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features.
• Contribute to the improvement of development and deployment processes.

Skills

Ruby

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

ClickHouse

Git

AWS

EKS

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

Remote

DNSFilter is revolutionizing network security by providing fast, accurate, and reliable threat protection and content filtering. We're a rapidly growing company dedicated to creating a safer internet for businesses and organizations worldwide. Leveraging AI-driven threat intelligence, DNSFilter empowers our customers to proactively block threats before they impact their networks. We foster a collaborative, innovative, and results-oriented culture where every team member contributes to our mission of making the internet safer.

As we continue our product-fueled growth by adding new features and broadening our solution to meet the needs of the global market, it's clear there's a missing piece. That's where you come in!

We are looking for a Senior Ruby Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering group. As a senior engineer, you will support data-driven approaches to building services using Ruby on Rails or other languages that are best suited for the problem, ensuring that the software we write will last, scale, and perform. You will advocate for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, knowing when to move fast and when to do things right. You will leverage your former experience to build scalable solutions that provide real-time insights and continuously deliver value to our customers.

Eligible candidates have and can work successfully in a remote environment and are familiar with working in a fast-paced hyper-growth SaaS start-up. This is a full-time remote role working with globally distributed teams and is open to candidates in the United States and Canada who are available to work hours that overlap with Eastern Time.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If you feel like this job is for you, please apply. We believe diversity of experience and skills, including transferable skills, combined with passion, is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions!

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience building highly scalable products using Ruby on Rails
• Proficiency in Ruby and working knowledge of another language
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse, and other data stores
• Experience with Sidekiq
• Experience using Git or other code versioning tools
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects of SDLC
• Knowledge of continuous integration systems, including GitHub workflows and Makefiles
• Working knowledge of AWS and EKS
• Experience working remotely under minimal supervision
• Passion for product quality and attention to details
• Experience working remotely with astrong commitment to collaborative work in a remote environment
• Can work in hours overlapping with the EST timezone
• Must be eligible to work in the country of residence without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future
• Experience working with multiple distributed teams
• Experience building security products
• Awareness of AppSec, OSS licensing, and security tools

At DNSFilter You Will:

• You will write, maintain, and test code using Ruby on Rails, GoLang, and other languages
• You will have API-first mindset developing components and services that are consumed via interfaces and API contracts
• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features
• You will inspire and share your engineering passion across the whole engineering organization
• You will contribute to the improvement of the development and deployment processes ensuring that we continuously evolve to be better
• You will demonstrate strong ownership of your projects to their delivery

We Offer:

• A 100% work-from-home position with a company that values and fosters personal and professional growth
• Pathway to promotion to additional organizational positions and responsibilities based upon results and performance - not just time in the chair. You help us grow, we will help you grow.
• Passionate and intelligent colleagues who work hard and have a good time doing it
• Flexible Fridays
• Paid company-wide week off at the end of each year
• Flexible Vacation policy
• Awesome company swag
• Home office buildout allowance
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US, UK, and Canada-based employees
• Full short-term disability and life benefits; available long-term disability
• Retirement savings account options with vested company matching for qualifying employees
• In-person annual gatherings. Last time we all spent a week on a beach in Cancun!

DNSFilter is a pay-for-performance organization, which means there is the opportunity to advance your compensation with performance over time. The hiring base pay is dependent upon many factors such as level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and/or geographic location. As a hybrid company, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. and global geographic markets. We pay differently based on those defined markets. Our Talent Team can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

DNSFilter participates in the E-Verify program.

At DNSFilter, we utilize sophisticated software and tools to identify and eliminate Deepfake candidates. This approach helps us maintain the integrity of our hiring process, ensuring that we select the most qualified and genuine individuals to join our team.

U.S. hiring salary range

$160,000 - $175,000 USD

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