Senior Software Engineer, Scanning Engine

Coalition

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Work type: Remote
Location: Canada
Posted: 73 days ago

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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 on 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 cross-functional teams to evolve the architecture and drive technical excellence. You will also mentor engineers across a distributed team spanning North America and Europe, ensuring robust systems design and secure coding practices are maintained. This role requires strong experience in backend or systems-level services, proficiency in Python or Go, and hands-on expertise in building scanning or detection engines. Additionally, you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with cloud-native technologies like microservices and containers.

Skills

Python Go Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana AWS PostgreSQL Redis GitLab GitHub Jenkins Ansible Terraform 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

Extensive 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 systems for scalability, reliability, and observability.
Hands-on experience building or maintaining 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.

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