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Coalition

Active cyber insurance with risk management

Senior Software Engineer - Scanning Engine

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a Senior Software Engineer or equivalent working on backend or systems-level services.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Python or Go, with the ability and willingness to work in both languages over time.
  • Demonstrated experience with systems design for distributed or high-availability services, including a clear understanding of scalability, reliability, and observability.
  • Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, or similar engine-like systems, such as vulnerability scanning, security scanning, data processing pipelines, or other high-throughput engines.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
  • Experience working in a cloud-native environment, such as microservices, containers, continuous integration and continuous delivery, monitoring, and logging.
  • Ability to collaborate across product, security, and platform/infrastructure teams, and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proven track record of owning projects end-to-end, from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment and making pragmatic technical decisions while maintaining quality and security.
  • Experience with code quality practices, including testing, static analysis, and code reviews, and building maintainable systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end systems design for key scanning engine components, from initial design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration.
  • Design and implement high-quality services in Python and Go that power scanning workflows, ensuring the code is maintainable, well-tested, and observable.
  • Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of the scanning engine, optimizing for large-scale distributed scanning workloads and strict service-level agreements.
  • Partner with security, product, and data teams to translate detection and scanning requirements into robust, production-ready systems and application programming interfaces.
  • Drive technical excellence and standards in the scanning engine codebase, including code review rigor, design documentation, and secure-coding best practices.
  • Contribute to architecture and roadmap decisions for the scanning platform, evaluating tradeoffs and proposing solutions that balance speed, quality, and risk.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues related to scanning performance, accuracy, and stability, collaborating with site reliability engineering and infrastructure teams where needed.
  • Mentor and support other engineers through design feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing about systems design and scanning domain concepts.

Desired Qualifications

  • Cybersecurity domain knowledge in scanning through endpoints.

About the Company

Coalition

Active cyber insurance with risk management

Coalition blends Active Insurance with proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses prevent digital risk. Its platform, Coalition Control, delivers automated cyber alerts, risk-management guidance, and third-party risk management. The company differentiates itself as the world’s first Active Insurance provider, backed by partnerships with major insurers and its own insurer, Coalition Insurance Company, plus Coalition Security Labs for education and insights. Its goal is to prevent cyber incidents by combining risk transfer with proactive protection to help organizations manage digital risk more effectively.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Series F
Total funding
$770M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2017

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