Senior Backend Software Engineer - CHAOS

At Cerby we believe security is everyone’s business.  Collaborating across your apps doesn’t need to be chaos.  We are a mission-critical cybersecurity company that empowers your teams to operate securely and control their apps completely.  We’ve built our product on the idea that teams deserve autonomy over their work apps.  It turns out that why they are guaranteed a choice, security comes naturally.

More than 50% of all technology is spent outside of centralized IT organizations.  Individual business units are taking their technology destiny into their own hands, and we enable that.  End user onboarded applications are behind more than one third of all cybersecurity hacks.  We provide the solution to manage that through enabling users to select their own technology and we automatically protect those applications.

About the role

At Cerby, software engineers are central to building innovative and secure products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building, and delivering features that power Cerby’s product. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, secure, and user-friendly solutions, contributing to a strong engineering culture and reliable software delivery.

What you'll do

• Design and Develop: Build scalable, high-performance software solutions that align with business goals and deliver customer value. 
• Collaborate: Work closely with product managers, engineering managers, UX designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions that improve the security posture of our customers. 
• Code Excellence: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices and coding standards. 
• Continuous Improvement: Participate in code reviews, share knowledge with team members, and continuously improve development processes. 
• Innovation and Curiosity: Champion new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies that drive innovation and product evolution. Creates solutions that are used across the Engineering organization to improve productivity and/or quality of other engineers. 
• Security Mindset: Contribute to our security-first approach by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and implementing robust solutions. 
• Remote Collaboration: Collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment, ensuring seamless communication and teamwork across time zones. 
• Culture: Demonstrates leadership and lives Cerby’s core values to achieve positive outcomes. 
• Teamwork: Actively mentors, helps teammates perform better, and works effectively across teams and cross-functionally.

Qualifications

Experience: 

• 5+ years of experience.

Technical Expertise: 

• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable SaaS applications in a high-performance startup environment (prior experience in high-growth venture-funded SaaS startups preferred). 
• Experience developing and supporting web services using RESTful APIs and distributed, event-driven, event-sourced systems. 
• Prior experience with queuing systems (SQS or similar) and event streaming (Kafka or similar). 
• Knowledge of cloud and IT security practices and concepts, such as zero-trust and encryption (OWASP 10). 
• Familiarity and experience building systems with security standards and protocols: SCIM, SAML, OIDC. 
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) ecosystem and the cybersecurity industry. 
• Proficiency in: Expertise with Python, Go, Typescript, or equivalent. Cloud platforms (ideally AWS) and prior experience building scalable cloud-based systems. Distributed data stores (S3), plus relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), and key/value databases (Redis, DynamoDB, or similar). 
• Container-based workloads (ECS and Docker knowledge are a plus). Writing unit, integration, and system tests to ensure robustness and prevent regressions (Pytest). System instrumentation and observability (OTEL, DataDog). 
• Software engineering practices such as Iterative Development, CI/CD, Collective Code Ownership, and Refactoring. 
• Architecting and designing modular and decoupled software applications and systems. Creating and maintaining build tools and CI/CD pipelines. 

Problem-Solving: 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions. 

Communication Skills: 

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely, both in written and verbal form 

Team Collaboration: 

• Experience working in agile teams and a collaborative mindset to contribute to a positive team culture. 

Start-up Experience (Preferred): Prior experience in a venture funded high-growth SaaS startup preferred. 

DESIRED QUALITIES: 

• Resourceful Achiever: Self-motivated, proactive, and adaptable in solving complex technical challenges. 
• Product Minded: Strong ability to understand customer value, to translate customer needs into software products that deliver tangible customer value. 
• Precision Executor: Focused on optimizing performance, scalability, and reliability in software delivery. 
• Team Player: Strong interpersonal skills, fostering a culture of collaboration and shared success. Actively mentor other engineers. 
• Lifelong Learner: A continuous curiosity to learn and explore emerging technologies and industry trends. 
• Innovative Thinker: Open to creative solutions, and comfortable navigating ambiguity.