Modern software runs on open source — and managing the compliance, security, and regulatory complexity that comes with it is one of the biggest problems facing engineering and legal teams today. FOSSA is the platform they use to address these challenges. We help thousands of organizations automate license compliance, prioritize vulnerabilities, generate and operationalize SBOMs, and meet regulatory requirements. Whether it's scanning AI-generated code for IP risks or helping a company through M&A due diligence, FOSSA gives teams the confidence to ship software they trust.
FOSSA is a rapidly growing series-B company with a truly distributed team. While our roots are in San Francisco, our growing team has members in several countries across many time zones. We’re always working to find the perfect balance of effective approaches to distributed work, while maintaining the direct personal connections that help us work better together and love our jobs.
The Core team owns the heart of the FOSSA product: the application our customers log into every day, the APIs and integrations they build on, and the data model everything else depends on. It is where the majority of customer-facing work lands, which means you will see the impact of what you build almost immediately.
This is a full-stack role. You will work across the product, from the database up through the API to the interface, and you will own features end to end rather than handing them off at a boundary. We are looking for someone who cares about the whole outcome: the design, the code, the rollout, and what happens after it ships.
The Core team owns the heart of the FOSSA product: the application our customers log into every day, the APIs and integrations they build on, and the data model everything else depends on. It is where the majority of customer-facing work lands, which means you will see the impact of what you build almost immediately.
This is a full-stack role. You will work across the product, from the database up through the API to the interface, and you will own features end to end rather than handing them off at a boundary. We are looking for someone who cares about the whole outcome: the design, the code, the rollout, and what happens after it ships.
What You'll Do- Design, build, and ship full-stack features that customers use daily, from database schema through to interface.
- Own your work end to end, including scoping, implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-through once it is live.
- Work in a variety of languages and tools, including Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Postgres.
- Partner with product, design, and support to turn customer problems into working software.
- Improve the reliability and performance of a system that runs at meaningful scale for large enterprise customers.
- Review code thoughtfully and help raise the quality bar for the team.
- Take part in an on-call rotation and help make the systems you own easier to operate.
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping scalable SaaS products, with real ownership of what you built.
- Experience as a full-stack software engineer owning and building features end-to-end.
- Solid experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries.
- Experience working in a large existing codebase, including proactivity in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others.
- Experience with agentic tooling and AI-assisted workflows, or a strong interest in getting good at using them. We use these tools daily and expect them to keep changing how we build.
- Ability to break down complex problems, drive towards a solution, and communicate it with the team and other stakeholders (both verbally and written).
- You thrive in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals.
- Ability to mentor and be mentored by others.
- Experience with observability tooling.
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things.
- Attention to detail and quality to anticipate edge cases ahead of time.
- Amazing team culture and environment
- Named by Built In as Best Start-up to work for 2024, 2025, 2026 and Forbes 2022
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Unlimited PTO
FOSSA is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
The annual cash compensation range for this position is $130,000 - $185,000 USD. Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed.
Skills Required
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping scalable SaaS products with ownership of delivered work
- Experience as a full-stack software engineer building and owning features end to end
- Solid experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries
- Experience working in a large existing codebase
- Proactivity in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others
- Experience with agentic tooling and AI-assisted workflows, or strong interest in developing proficiency with them
- Ability to break down complex problems and drive toward solutions
- Strong verbal and written communication with teammates and stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals
- Ability to mentor and be mentored by others
- Experience with observability tooling
- Growth mindset and willingness to learn new things
- Attention to detail and ability to anticipate edge cases
FOSSA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about FOSSA and has not been reviewed or approved by FOSSA.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as fully employer-paid for employees with substantial support for dependents, complemented by dental/vision and access to One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Health Advocate. This signals robust core medical benefits with strong mental and virtual care add-ons.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and designated mental health days. Paid parental leave of 12 weeks for full-time employees further expands time-away support.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A remote-first setup is supported by a home-office stipend, a monthly WFH stipend, commuter benefits where applicable, and company gatherings such as an annual offsite. These benefits enhance day-to-day flexibility and overall lifestyle support.
FOSSA Insights
What We Do
Open Source has become the critical supplier for modern software companies, changing everything about how people think about their code. FOSSA builds the infrastructure for modern teams to be successful with open source. FOSSA's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning and compliance. Since then, over 7,000 open source projects (Kubernetes, Webpack, Terraform, ESLint) and companies (Uber, Ford, Zendesk, Motorola) rely on FOSSA's tools to ship software. If you are in the software industry today, you're now using code that runs FOSSA. FOSSA is a venture funded company backed by Costanoa Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, etc. with affiliate angels including Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Steve Chen (YouTube), Amr Awadallah (Cloudera), Jaan Tallin (Skype) and Justin Mateen (Tinder).
Why Work With Us
We foster a low-ego environment that allows all employees to drive meaningful change. We are honest with each other and trust that we have the maturity to always seek the truth. We cultivate strong relationships with our customers and each other through integrity and accountability.
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