Snyk

Senior Software Engineer (API)

Posted 9 Days Ago

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London, Greater London, England, GBR

Hybrid

Senior level

Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Data Privacy

Snyk helps organizations build fast and stay secure in the age of AI.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Snyk, you'll design and manage APIs, handle high-volume data streams, mentor junior engineers, and focus on building scalable systems. You'll engage with customers to resolve issues and support security improvements within development workflows.

Summary Generated by Built In

Snyk is the leader in secure AI software development, helping millions of developers develop fast and stay secure as AI transforms how software is built. Our AI-native Developer Security Platform integrates seamlessly into development and security workflows, making it easy to find, fix, and prevent vulnerabilities — from code and dependencies to containers and cloud.

Our mission is to empower every developer to innovate securely in the AI era — boosting productivity while reducing business risk. We’re not your average security company - we build Snyk on One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking.

It’s how we stay driven, supportive, and always one step ahead as AI reshapes our world.

Our OpportunityAs a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping how modern organizations build and secure software at scale. You’ll join a collaborative, forward-thinking team and help drive our mission to embed security into every part of the AI-native development lifecycle. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Issues API team at Snyk, you will have the opportunity to build highly scalable, performant APIs that are critical to our customers. Your work will be instrumental in helping them track issues, vulnerabilities, and remediation efforts to improve their security posture. You will work within a team of highly cohesive, talented and collaborative engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. As a part of our team, you'll be on the front lines of building and evolving our API layer, a critical component of Snyk's platform. Your work will involve building and maintaining highly scalable and resilient distributed systems and microservice architecture, leveraging technologies like Kafka to handle our high-volume data streams and ensure our systems are reliable and performant.You’ll Spend Your Time:

Designing, implementing, and managing our APIs using Go, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability.
Managing data pipelines to support high-volume data streams.
Designing solutions to problems which typically require multiple engineers to implement.
Demonstrating end-to-end ownership for the delivery of key efforts, and leading peers in the delivery of particularly broad efforts as a technical lead.
Supporting our customers by resolving bugs and customer support escalations.
Focusing on long-term sustainability by building systems with robust testing, good design, and consideration for cost and scale.
Providing mentorship to more junior engineers, and playing a role in growing the next generation of engineers at Snyk.

What You’ll Need:

At least 7 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer.
Experience in large-scale software systems design, and familiarity with fundamental computer science concepts (algorithms, complexity, data structures).
Proficiency in at least one of our core programming languages (Go, TypeScript), and a willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies.
Experience in at least one of:
- Building highly reliable, scalable microservice back-ends for web APIs or applications, or other types of large-scale, high reliability systems.
- Building web UIs, CLIs or APIs for use by other engineers.
- Building infrastructure or platform automation, or observability or release tools.
Demonstrable skill in effective software testing.
Strong commitment to code quality, and the value of giving and receiving feedback through code reviews.
Ability to deal with ambiguity, and respond with agility when requirements and priorities change.
Effective communicator both verbally and in writing. Able to work collaboratively, be curious and have a growth mindset.
Ability to lift the performance of a team through coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers.

We’d be Lucky if You:

Have experience with Kubernetes, Helm, AWS/GCP, Postgres, and Kafka.
Have experience with database scaling.
Enjoy working on early stage products; talking with customers to identify, prioritize and solve problems iteratively and build something that they really love.
Feed off complex technical problems and find solutions where others see roadblocks.
Embrace challenges and learn from them.

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The Company

HQ: Boston, MA

1,000 Employees

Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

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 company’s 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 4,500 customers worldwide today.

Why Work With Us

Every team member at Snyk contributes to our vision for a more secure digital world. No matter where we are in the world, we operate as one team and work together to shape the future of application security. We take immense pride in the diversity of our people, cultures, and experiences.