Senior Software Engineer

Coalition

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Remote
Location
Canada
Posted
73 days ago
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About Coalition

Coalition is a cyber insurance and security company that combines comprehensive cyber insurance coverage with active risk management tools to help organizations prevent and respond to cyber incidents. Industry: Cyber Insurance & Risk Management

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer will join the Scanning Engine & Data Collection team to provide technical leadership for distributed systems that scan the internet and customer environments. The role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud services to collect security data, ingest third-party threat intelligence, and surface findings into underwriting and risk workflows. You will develop high-quality services using Python and Go while improving performance, scalability, and reliability for distributed scanning workloads. Key responsibilities include owning end-to-end systems design, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product and security teams to translate requirements into production-ready APIs. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in backend services, cloud-native environments, and high-throughput data processing pipelines. This role addresses the technical challenge of automating cyber risk detection and managing attack surface data for insurance underwriting and security management products.

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What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end systems design for key components of the scanning engine from initial design through deployment.
  • Develop and maintain high-quality services in Python and Go to power scanning workflows.
  • Optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of distributed scanning workloads to meet strict SLAs.
  • Translate security and product requirements into robust, production-ready systems and APIs.
  • Drive technical excellence by enforcing code review standards, documentation, and secure coding practices.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and roadmap planning for the scanning platform.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues related to scanning performance and stability.
  • Mentor and support other engineers through design feedback and knowledge sharing on systems design.

What we're looking for

  • Experience as a Senior Software Engineer working on backend or systems-level services.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Go with the willingness to work in both languages.
  • Demonstrated experience with systems design for distributed, high-availability, and scalable services.
  • Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, or high-throughput data processing engines.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
  • Experience working in cloud-native environments using microservices, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring tools.
  • Proven track record of owning projects end-to-end from design through implementation and iteration.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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