As a collective of highly technical engineers and developers offering deep security expertise, Praetorian solves the toughest challenges faced by Fortune 500 organizations and emerging technology startups across an ever-evolving digital threat landscape. Our solutions enable customers to find, fix, stop, and ultimately solve cybersecurity problems across the enterprise and its product portfolios.
Today, Praetorian is making significant investments in terms of financial and engineering resources to develop a radically new customer experience we call “Security-as-a-Service” to provide customers with a unified, efficient, and data-driven security platform. We are looking to add the right software engineer to our growing team supporting the next wave of cybersecurity products and solutions.
Position Overview: Praetorian is seeking a principal software engineer. A successful principal software engineer will be equally excellent at writing our software, designing our software, and mentoring more junior engineering talent. As an Inc. Best Places to Work, Inc. 500 | 5000, Cybersecurity 500, and Austin Fast 50 Award recipient, we are seeking an individual that understands the professional and personal growth attached to this opportunity and who has the corresponding internal drive to maximize it. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the best security engineers in the world who hail from organizations such as Amazon, CIA, Facebook, Google, McAfee, Microsoft, NSA, Redhat, Sun Microsystems, and Symantec.
To learn more about Praetorian, visit:
https://www.praetorian.com/careers
Career opportunity:
- Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
- Partner with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
- Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
- Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has real impact
- Be recognized, internally and publicly, for your contributions in a high profile position
- Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move
- Be part of the initial team designing and building out this product
Core responsibilities:
- Create uncanny amounts of complex code in a short order
- Develop, test, and maintain back-end code-base
- Provide development effort estimation and story point new features
- Troubleshoot and resolve reported bugs
- Optimize back-end for maximum speed and scalability
- Collaborate with both the data science and front-end teams
Required qualifications:
- Experience with Java, Python, and Go
- BS in computer science or computer engineering
Desired qualifications:
- Experience with modern technology stacks
- Experience with micro-services architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms and SaaS solutions
- Experience with agile/scrum development practices
- Experience with test driven development, continuous integration, continuous deployment
- Experience with Git, JIRA, Confluence
- Experience with Google Compute, Firebase, Docker, and GKE
Desired behaviors:
- Relentless restlessness to improve precision and scalability of the platform
- Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
- Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
- Comfort dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
- Ability to work within constraints and to challenge the status quo
- Ability to self-direct work, orient to action, and truly own the position in a hyper-growth environment
Compensation package:
- Highly competitive base-salary
- Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation
- Employee stock option plan
- Health insurance
- 4% company 401K matching vested immediately
- Company contributions to training and conferences
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
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