Staff Software Engineer, Security Engineering

About the role

This role is a Staff-level individual contributor position within the Security Engineering team, focused on Coalition Control, a security platform that helps protect our policyholders from cyber crime. You’ll own critical backend services end-to-end, have broad autonomy to shape technical direction and will serve as a technical multiplier for the broader engineering team. You’ll have access to leading AI tools so you can just cook.

Responsibilities

Ship product fast: Work with Product, Design and Engineering to turn high-level product goals into iterative plans, shape scope, and contribute to development in a full-stack capacity with depth and expertise in backend.

Strengthen the platform: Own the technical vision, architecture, and expansion of the backend systems powering Coalition Control, while contributing to other Coalition Security Products

Hold a high bar for engineering craft: Raise our standards for code, code reviews, testing, and reliability, leveraging AI-assisted workflows to build faster and reduce toil

Unblock and elevate the team: Guide other engineers through architectural trade-offs, provide thoughtful yet speedy code reviews, and sharing knowledge with others

Skills and Qualifications

Proven experience as a backend engineer designing and building distributed systems and cloud-based services in production.

Demonstrated technical leadership, including influencing architecture, setting technical standards, enabling other engineers, and collaborating effectively across teams.

Strong proficiency with AI workflows, Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/Node.js, or a similar modern backend language and framework. Experience with React.js is a plus.

Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs, as well as integrating with third-party APIs or platforms.

Solid understanding of security concepts and practices, with experience in a cybersecurity domain is a plus, but not strictly required

Strong communication skills and a practical, outcome-oriented approach to problem solving.

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $160,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $230,000/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Perks

100% medical, dental and vision coverage

Flexible PTO policy

Annual home office stipend and WeWork access

Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)!

Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement