Styra is an early stage startup creating a new category of services designed to help businesses take control of their cloud operations. Styra empowers people and software to make reliable authorization decisions in dynamic, complex, and large-scale environments with tools that provide direct, real-time visibility and control over applications and infrastructure.
To help us accelerate and enhance the current team Styra is looking for a team-player senior engineer that is excited to work on solving one of the biggest challenges in today’s enterprise software.
Come and join the highly passionate Styra team composed of early engineers at Nicira, VMware, Ciena and Pure Storage.
Responsibilities
A team player who will enthusiastically collaborate with the rest of the Styra engineering team, you will:
- Help develop our highly secure, high-performance authorization decision engine, that is the core of the Styra’s software. This work will require working on the state-of-the-art database concurrency, storage, caching, and query optimization problems.
- Develop and support data analysis routines that automatically and in real-time categorize, rank, discover and visualize past authorization decisions and historical accesses.
- Commit to the development of a crawler to discover and record contextual data across the web and make it accessible to the decision engine. Collect in real-time data about applications, servers, containers, clusters, public/private clouds, operations tools, people, organizations, databases, and public records. Keep the record of data in sync with the sources of truth in near-real time, and automatically adapt to outages, refactorings, and updates.
- Share in the design and contribute to the massively scalable, highly available, high throughput, low latency, secure system serving Fortune 500 companies. The system requires high-availability, data-replication, and strict SLA requirements.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience with high-available scalable distributed system.
- Experience in the authorization/access control and in the security space
- Understanding of Kubernetes (container management solutions), containers, CICD, public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc)
- PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience
- Responsible and share interpersonal skills with the team