Staff Software Engineer - Cosmos Platform

Why Join Bishop Fox 
At Bishop Fox, security is more than a job—it’s a passion that drives us to push boundaries and innovate continuously. We are the leader in continuous offensive security and penetration testing services, and we are recognized for delivering world-class customer experiences. We’re the trusted offensive security partner more than a quarter of the Fortune 100, half of the Fortune 10, and the top global media companies, helping them safeguard their digital landscapes. Our Cosmos platform, named Best Emerging Technology by SC Media, is just one example of how we lead in developing innovative, effective security solutions. 

Joining Bishop Fox means working alongside a team with people as curious and committed as you. You’ll tackle complex challenges for some of the world’s most recognized organizations, helping them secure their networks against real-world threats. With nearly 20 years of industry contributions—including 16 open-source tools and 50 security advisories published in the past five years alone—we’re dedicated to making the digital world safer, one breakthrough at a time. Here, your potential is limitless, fueled by our commitment to supporting your growth and impact. 

Who You Are and What You’ll Do 

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you’ll design solutions, write code, and usher software into production. You will build services that industrialize the automation of offensive security processes and provide security information to our customers in a scalable, secure, reliable cloud platform.  

As a Staff Engineer, you will take the lead on designing solutions, drive quality standards, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team and broader engineering organization.  You will demonstrate a mastery of various technologies while continuing to learn and grow mastery in new and additional technologies that make up the Cosmos stack, all to help design and build solutions that enhance the capabilities, performance, and resiliency of the Cosmos Platform. 

Your Experience 

• Mastery in the foundations of Golang and strong experience in building micro-services 

• Experience in asynchronous processing, Kafka experience preferred 

• Experience in utilizing scalable cloud services, AWS experience preferred 

• Experience using datastores, SQL or NoSQL 

• Experience with React and Node.js as a full-stack engineer a plus 

• Experience in a professional software organization using an SDLC 

• Understanding of coding best practices (structure, patterns, unit tests, secure coding, etc.) 

• Ability to work independently and with the team to solve complex technical problems 

• Ability to communicate solution designs to Cosmos technical leadership 

• Ability to communicate and mentor solution designs and best practices to other engineers. 

• Ability to break down technical platform and product requirements to ensure clear tasks  

• Interest in cybersecurity 

Our Values 

We strive to live by our values every day, in support of our core tenets, which are to deliver the highest quality of work for our clients, quality of life for our team, and quality of business for our industry and our future. 

• Be Excellent to Each Other 

• Do the Right Thing 

• Do What You’ll Say You’ll Do 

• Get Better Together 

• Give a Sh*t 

We offer a variety of benefits and perks, such as: 

• Generous Time Off and Company-Wide Holidays 

• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision 

• Retirement; 401k matching for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US 

• Work From Home Support 

• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet 

• Training Budget 

• Paid Parental Leave 

Bishop Fox is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.  All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment. 

Interested? Apply today!