Staff Backend Engineer
Staff Backend Engineer
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Job Description
Snyk the leader in secure AI software development empowers organizations to build fast and stay secure by unleashing developer productivity and reducing business risk. The companys AI Trust Platform seamlessly integrates into developer and security workflows to accelerate secure software delivery in the AI Era. Snyk delivers trusted actionable insights and automated remediation enabling modern organizations to innovate without limits. Snyk is redefining secure AI-driven software delivery for over 4500 customers worldwide today.
Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team Care Deeply Customer Centric and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team youll 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
Are you a versatile and strong backend developer with experience in API integrations and data pipelines eager to contribute to building transformative products Do you thrive in a dynamic environment supporting the technical execution of innovative ideas
Snyks Incubation Accelerator is seeking a Staff Engineer with a Backend & Systems focus to support our Principal Engineers in the design development and deployment of groundbreaking products. This role will involve implementing features working on infrastructure and contributing to tooling requiring versatility across various aspects of the backend and systems landscape. You will play a key role in bringing to life our Agentic UX vision and the integration of technologies like SAST/DAST. Familiarity with the broader ecosystem including Hugging Face OpenAI and cloud platforms will be a significant asset.
As a Staff Incubation Engineer within Snyks Incubation Accelerator youll design ship and own key backend projects for a new product. We are looking for individuals who have full stack experience in enterprise products and have built products before where machine learning is a key component.
Youll Spend Your Time:
- Building experimenting and optimising RAG and multi-step event driven AI pipelines.
- 0-1 product development: rapidly prototype new ideas work with the team to speak to customers about them and iterate on the products.
- Designing new AI-native experiences including chat streaming agentic workflows generative user interfaces etc while keeping customer value in focus.
- Designing building and scaling of our backend infrastructure with a focus on unique needs of AI products.
- Designing and implementing secure and high performing APIs MCPs and services.
- Developing cloud and serverless infrastructure to support AI capabilities.
- Continuously optimizing reliability and observability of the pipeline and backend.
What Youll Need:
- 8 years of relevant experience in software engineering with a focus on backend development (Go/Python).
- Familiarity with generative AI and LLMs with experience shipping LLM based solutions to production a plus.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
- Deep knowledge of databases - design migrations scaling.
- Experience with designing different types of data pipelines Airflow event driven etc.
- Experience with serverless architectures.
- Understanding of security best practices and performance optimization.
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We care deeply about the warm inclusive environment weve 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 youre 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
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
