POSITION: Software Engineer - Software Systems
LOCATION: Culver City, CA
WHO WE ARE
Signal Sciences is the fastest growing web application security company in the world. With its award-winning
next-gen WAF and
RASP solution, Signal Sciences protects over 25,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ patented architecture provides organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility.
We work with some of the
world’s most recognizable companies, like Under Armour, Adobe and WeWork, across industries, including five of the top eCommerce companies, five of the largest software companies, in addition to many others in the financial services, retail, healthcare, media and entertainment, and government sectors. In 2018, Signal Sciences won Technology of the Year from InfoWorld and Computing’s DevOps Excellence Award for Best DevOps Security Tool.
SUMMARY
Our team is looking for a hands-on Software Engineer who enjoys building scalable systems. This role requires a strong understanding of highly performant data access patterns and asynchronous software development mastery. Our team works on both cloud native and packaged security software that scales along with some of the largest sites on the Internet.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with team to evolve system architecture
- Increase development scalability through automation and code improvements
- Monitor and improve highly scalable, distributed systems
- Evolve our data storage strategies and related technologies
- Performance tune across the stack
- Participate in on-call rotation
QUALITIES / EXPERIENCE WE’RE SEEKING
- 4+ years of professional experience developing complex networked applications at scale
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols, TLS/SSL, HTTP(S)
- Experience building multi-threaded servers
- Strong automated testing and debugging experience
- Proficiency in a server-side language - eg: Go, C++, C#, Java, etc
- Experience designing and building systems at scale in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working with container orchestration - ECS, K8s, etc
YOU’LL WORK WITH
Go, Docker, AWS, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, DataDog, Signal Sciences Rules Platform and security software, and new technologies we’ll add to support our rapid growth
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN SIGSCI
Named a Best Place to Work in 2019 by LA Business Journal and Comparably, SigSci is built on a cultural foundation of passionate, driven, and unique individuals. As a team member, you will enjoy 100% employer-sponsored medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, flexible work arrangements, weekly catered lunches, a variety of snacks, and cold brew on tap. Most of all, you will have the opportunity to make a positive impact with the industry leader in web application security.