Senior Software Engineer - Scanning Engine Lead

Coalition, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, dental and vision

Flexible PTO policy

Annual home office stipend and WeWork

Mental & physical health wellness (One

Headspace, Wellhub)

Competitive compensation and career‑op

Job summary

Coalition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership on the Scanning Engine & Data Collection team.

You will design, build, and operate large-scale cloud services that run internet-wide and customer-specific scans, ingest third-party threat intelligence, and surface high-quality findings into our underwriting and security workflows. You will work with senior engineers, security, product, and data teams to evolve the architecture, improve performance and

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python or Go and willingness to work in both.
• Experience designing distributed or high-availability services.
• Hands-on with scanning, detection, or data processing pipelines.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end systems design for key components of the scanning engine, from initial design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration.
• Design and implement high-quality services in Python and Go that power our scanning workflows, ensuring code is maintainable, well-tested, and observable.
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of the scanning engine, optimizing for large-scale, distributed scanning workloads and strict SLAs.
• Partner with security, product, and data teams to translate detection and scanning requirements into robust, production-ready systems and APIs.
• Drive technical excellence and standards in the scanning engine codebase, including code review rigor, design documentation, and best practices for secure coding.

Skills

Senior Software Engineer

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Backend development

Code quality

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Coalition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership on the Scanning Engine & Data Collection team.

You will design, build, and operate large-scale cloud services that run internet-wide and customer-specific scans, ingest third-party threat intelligence, and surface high-quality findings into our underwriting and security workflows. You will work with senior engineers, security, product, and data teams to evolve the architecture, improve performance and