About the Role
We’re looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Lead to take full ownership of Valence’s SaaS integrations domain — the layer that connects our platform to dozens of external applications.
You’ll lead the evolution of hundreds of existing connectors, handling production issues, expanding capabilities, and driving product-driven development processes. This is a high-impact, dynamic role for someone who thrives in fast-changing environments, enjoys solving complex problems, and knows how to make things happen.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Valence’s integration layer, maintaining and improving hundreds of existing connectors across leading SaaS platforms.
- Handle production incidents, expand connector capabilities, and collaborate closely with Product on roadmap and prioritization.
- Design and implement new connectors based on business, product, and customer requirements.
- Lead development of automation-based or scraping connectors, extracting and normalizing data into Valence’s core product.
- Proactively use AI tools to accelerate development, troubleshoot issues, automate manual workflows, and improve overall team efficiency.
- Take a problem-solving and ownership mindset — identify opportunities to improve performance, automate processes, and scale the system efficiently.
- Mentor and guide a small team of engineers while remaining hands-on owning the connectors domain.
Requirements
Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend development experience, with strong hands-on coding skills in Go / Python / TypeScript / Node.js.
- Proven experience building and maintaining API integrations or SaaS connectors.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, authentication mechanisms (OAuth2, tokens), and secure data handling.
- Experience deploying to and writing for production environments on a daily basis.
- Strong analytical and multi-tasking skills with a “get-things-done” mindset.
- Ability to work in a fast-changing environment — adaptable, confident, and self-driven.
- Demonstrated experience in using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to enhance productivity and code quality.
Preferred Experience
- Prior experience in cybersecurity or SaaS infrastructure domains.
- Familiarity with list privileges and permission management in SaaS platforms.
- Background in automation, data normalization, or scraping.
- Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers (management experience is not mandatory).
Top Skills
What We Do
Valence enables security teams to find and fix SaaS risks. As SaaS complexity and distributed management present security challenges, the Valence SaaS security platform provides unparalleled and actionable insights into configuration, identity, data, SaaS-to-SaaS integration, and GenAI risks. The Valence platform offers comprehensive SaaS security posture management (SSPM), risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR). Valence’s unique remediation by choice capabilities allow security teams to leverage manual remediation, automated workflows and business user collaboration to scale their risk reduction and proactively secure their SaaS. Leading organizations leverage Valence to empower their business to securely adopt SaaS.
