Our Opportunity

Our team is responsible for ensuring the reliability of the Snyk platform's most critical core service. In this role, you will establish and implement a strategy for stabilising the team’s area of the platform, making the Snyk platform more reliable and maintainable.

We’re looking for a proactive engineer, who enjoys working as part of a team with a critical mission. Collaboration with other product engineering teams will be a key aspect of your responsibilities.

You’ll Spend Your Time:

• Pair-programming with application developers and reliability engineers to improve codebase maintainability and database performance.

• Proactively contributing to code, prototyping and developing solutions with a bias for action, and focusing on iterative delivery.
• Proposing solutions that deliver both short-term benefits and also serve as strategic long-term technical investments.
• Working with other teams across Snyk R&D globally to actively execute the team’s mission.
• Maintaining our high standards for code quality, testing, and iterative & continuous delivery.
• Participating in our on-call rotation (compensated).

What You’ll Need:

• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript, and the desire to work across other languages as needed such as Go
• Proficiency in developing distributed applications
• Experience with development tooling like CI/CD tools
• Experience handling incidents in production environment

We’d be Lucky if You:

• Are passionate about all things security and reliability
• Have worked with relational databases such as Postgres
• Have a good understanding of Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
• Have knowledge or experience with large scale database in production environment

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