Synack's Penetration Testing as a Service platform manages customers' attack surfaces by discovering new assets, pentesting for critical vulnerabilities and gaining visibility into the root causes of security risks. Synack is looking to build a Red Team platform that is transforming cybersecurity.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in distributed-systems and backend software engineering
- Experience with AI technologies, e.g. LLMs, RAG, MCP, etc.
- Recent experience with golang preferred; however candidates with distributed-systems expertise in other language ecosystems such as Java, C-Sharp, Rust, C/C++ etc will be considered if you are committed to making the jump to golang
- Strong experience and understanding of microservices, REST API design, gRPC, writing unit testing, BDD testing
- Strong design skills required – UML is a bonus; exposure to Domain Driven Design desirable
- Experience with asynchronous messaging technologies such as Google PubSub, Kafka
- In depth knowledge of NoSQL and RDBMS technologies
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate cybersecurity testing and analysis systems with best-in-class cybersecurity platform
- Build high-performance, resilient, scalable cloud-based software, utilizing AI technologies, microservices architecture and containers
- Take software through CI/CD all the way to production and own its quality and availability
- Utilize GCP platform to build and run highly-available software systems
- Identify and resolve performance issues across systems and components
- Integrate monitoring and alerting capabilities with backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times
- Design, implement and deliver well-tested, scalable, highly available systems
Other
- This is a remote position based in the U.S.
- We can only hire U.S. citizens for this position due to federal government contract requirements.
- Collaborate on a cross-functional team, working with Product, Operations, and DevOps
- Own and ideate technical solutions for product requirements and user stories
- Actively engage and participate in design and code reviews
