Senior Software Engineer - Cloud / Backend
Canada
Engineering /
Remote /
Remote
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.
