Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.
Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.
Our Opportunity
At Snyk there are various foundational technologies that every Snyker (Snyk employee), Customer, and Partner is likely to interact with. Team Access is responsible for some of the highest throughput and lowest latency systems here at Snyk. Our mission is to ensure that authentication and authorization are correct, reliable and stable, all at a rapidly increasing scale as we grow our user base and serve some of the world’s largest enterprises, enabling millions of external developers through our security products.
We are looking for a Staff Engineer who cares about building solid and secure access solutions for all of Snyk’s services to join Team Access, in the Platform Engineering Division. You will be one of two Staff engineers providing technical leadership in Team Access, and working closely with the Identity and API teams within the Foundation Group,as well as teams across R&D, through Access’s crucial role in inter-service communications.
You’ll Spend Your Time:
- Shaping our technical implementations and guiding the team on work which spans multiple critical systems and affects many teams
- Actively contributing production code, prototyping and developing testing strategies, balancing a bias for action and focus on iterative delivery alongside the need for correctness and continuously raising the bar for reliability. For Snyk, Production covers a multi-cluster, multi-region design across a range of deployment options: Multi-tenant SaaS, and Single-tenant SaaS.
- Collaborating with Product, other technical leads, architects, and business stakeholders to understand key requirements and translate them into project briefs (we call these ‘pitches’) and technical specs.
- Collaborating with your team via pair programming and code reviews, working with others in both synchronous and asynchronous settings
- Innovating through strategic system design improvements that deliver both short-term gains and long-term advantages in reliability, availability and scalability.
- Leading by example, fostering an environment of inclusion and growth through pairing, feedback and mentoring
What You’ll Need:
- High standards for code quality, testing, and iterative, continuous delivery
- Experience with Authentication and Authorization patterns
- Experience working with distributed systems
- A track record of delivering highly available systems in production environments
- A track record of project leadership
- The ability to talk about complex technical concepts in ways that make it easy for others to understand and follow along.
We’d be Lucky if You:
- Have experience with Networking and API Gateways
- Are familiar with Audit patterns and best practices
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We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!
About Snyk
Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.
Benefits & Programs
Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.
- Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
- Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances
