Senior Software Engineer

Coalition

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Work type: Remote
Location: Canada
Posted: 1 day 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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As a Senior Software Engineer at Coalition’s Scanning Engine & Data Collection team, you will lead the design and implementation of large-scale cloud services that continuously scan the internet and customer environments to collect security data. Your daily tasks include designing high-quality Python and Go services for scanning workflows, improving system performance and reliability, and collaborating with security, product, and data teams to enhance the architecture of the scanning platform. You will also mentor engineers across a distributed team spanning North America and Europe, ensuring technical excellence through rigorous code reviews and documentation practices. This role requires strong experience in backend or systems-level services, proficiency in Python or Go, and hands-on expertise in building scalable and reliable distributed systems within a cloud-native environment.

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Python Go Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana AWS PostgreSQL Redis GitLab Microservices Scalability Reliability Observability

What you'll do

Own end-to-end systems design for key components of the scanning engine.
Design and implement high-quality services in Python and Go for scanning workflows.
Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of the scanning engine for large-scale workloads.
Translate detection and scanning requirements into robust production-ready systems and APIs.
Mentor other engineers through design feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer in backend or systems-level services.
Proficiency in Python and/or Go, with capability to work across both languages.
Expertise in designing distributed or high-availability services focusing on scalability, reliability, and observability.
Hands-on experience building scanning, detection, or similar engine-like systems.
Strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.
Experience working in a cloud-native environment with microservices, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, and logging.
Proven ability to collaborate across teams and communicate technical tradeoffs effectively.

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