Senior Software Engineer, Scanning Engine

<div class="content-intro"><h4><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">About us</span></h4> <p>Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks. </p> <p>Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.</p></div><h4><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Responsibilities</span></h4> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Own end-to-end systems design for key components of the scanning engine, from initial design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Design and implement high-quality services in Python and Go that power our scanning workflows, ensuring code is maintainable, well-tested, and observable.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of the scanning engine, optimizing for large-scale, distributed scanning workloads and strict SLAs.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Partner with security, product, and data teams to translate detection and scanning requirements into robust, production-ready systems and APIs.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Drive technical excellence and standards in the scanning engine codebase, including code review rigor, design documentation, and best practices for secure coding.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Contribute to architecture and roadmap decisions for the scanning platform, evaluating tradeoffs and proposing solutions that balance speed, quality, and risk.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Diagnose and resolve complex production issues related to scanning performance, accuracy, and stability, collaborating with SRE/Infra teams where needed.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mentor and support other engineers on the team through design feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing around systems design and scanning domain concepts.</span></li> </ul> <h4><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Skills and Qualifications</span></h4> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strong experience as a Senior Software Engineer (or equivalent) working on backend or systems-level services.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Proficiency in at least one of Python or Go, with the ability and willingness to work in both languages over time.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Demonstrated experience with systems design for distributed or high-availability services, including clear understanding of scalability, reliability, and observability.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, or similar engine-like systems (e.g., vulnerability scanning, security scanning, data processing pipelines, or similar high-throughput engines).</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">TODO: Clarify how strict security/scanning background is vs. openness to adjacent domains (data pipelines, compilers, search, etc.).</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strong software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization.</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience working in a cloud-native environment (e.g., microservices, containers, CI/ ... (truncated, view full listing at source)