As a Senior Software Engineer at Material Security, you’ll be part of an remote first, high caliber team of experienced engineers. We're expanding the detection and analysis capabilities of our world-class Phishing product, while simultaneously overhauling the performance and scale of our existing email platform. We run the “secret sauce” that powers Material’s active protections and the platform that the rest of the product is built on.
ResponsibilitiesBuild scalable distributed systems capable of efficiently handling high throughput.
Design, implement, and maintain scalable and robust software systems.
Ship high-impact features or projects (in collaboration with product and security) while leveraging modern frameworks and tooling.
Contribute to great engineering culture through active participation and mentorship.
Technical Ability: Solid software engineering fundamentals, raw coding ability, and problem-solving ability are key. Ideal candidates are prolific but careful coders in at least one mainstream language and have the ability to easily pick up new ones (i.e. Typescript). They can quickly identify the best ways to tackle challenging problems while explaining their decisions to teammates.
Technical Maturity: Our engineering team punches above its weight because everyone can produce very high-quality code without too much oversight. The foresight to understand what risks we should/should-not take is crucial to reliably ship production code.
Ownership: We love engineers who deeply care about the impact of their work and find satisfaction in a job well done. Strong ownership starts before the first line of code (is this the right approach?) and continues after the last commit is merged (now that we've shipped, how is this behaving in prod?).
Attitude & Ambition: The best candidates are smart, hard-working, competitive, and not afraid to fail. They are team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.
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Material Security is a remote-first workplace with an office in San Francisco, California.
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Compensation at Material Security is determined by a range of factors, including but not limited to the individual’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $190,000 - $235,000.
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Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
Material Security is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
Skills Required
- Solid software engineering fundamentals and coding ability
- Experience with scalable distributed systems
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects
- Experience with modern frameworks and tooling, especially Typescript
What We Do
Material Security uses ubiquitous tools in unexpected ways to understand and mitigate risk in cloud office apps. Material is known and loved in the security community for protecting cloud email at global media and financial conglomerates, large tech companies, and highly-targeted public sector organizations. The platform connects in minutes to Microsoft and Google environments to analyze risk, detect threats, automatically investigate incidents, and crowdsource mitigation with end-users via novel integrations with identity providers like Okta, Duo, Ping, and Microsoft Azure AD. The company was started in response to the 2016 Election hacks, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, and was recently valued at $1.1B. Material is single-tenant, can be deployed in the customer’s cloud, and Material personnel do not need access to customer data. Material also protects the personal accounts of high-risk VIPs. https://material.security/love







