[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Security Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coalition is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical lead for the Security Engineering team behind Coalition Control, its cyber risk management platform. The role owns backend services and technical direction while building and simplifying systems that help policyholders manage cyber risk.

Responsibilities

• Ship product fast: Work with Product, Design and Engineering to turn high-level goals into iterative plans, shape scope, and build and refine prototypes quickly, contributing across the stack with depth in backend
• Strengthen the platform: Own the technical vision, architecture, and expansion of the backend systems powering Coalition Control (Python/FastAPI, with Go services and a TypeScript/React frontend), and contribute to other Coalition Security Products. Take systems spread across many microservices and simplify them for a saner future
• Hold a high bar for engineering craft: Raise our standards for code, code reviews, testing, and reliability. Use our AI stack to gather context, define requirements, and get code written faster, so you spend your time on the decisions that matter
• Unblock and elevate the team: Lead the Control team of four engineers within a Security Engineering group of up to 15. Guide others through architectural trade-offs, give thoughtful but quick code reviews, and share what you know
• Work across lines: Partner with a wide range of teams and departments, and ramp up quickly into owning many technical decisions and their execution
• Share the pager: Join an on-call rotation across the Security Engineering team (one week roughly every eight weeks, with the team typically paged once or twice a month)

Skills

• Proven experience as a backend engineer designing and building distributed, event-driven systems and cloud-based services in production, ideally with tools like SQS or Kafka on AWS
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including influencing architecture, setting standards, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating effectively across teams
• Strong proficiency in a modern backend language and framework
• Go experience is not required
• Comfort with TypeScript/Node.js
• Strong, hands-on use of AI-assisted development workflows (we generate the vast majority of our code with AI tools like Cursor and Claude)
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs, as well as integrating with third-party APIs or platforms
• A track record of taking complex existing systems and making them simpler and easier to evolve
• Empathy for the people using what you build, though you don't need to come from a company with massive scale
• Solid understanding of security concepts and practices
• Clear, direct communication, human to human, and a practical, outcome-oriented approach to problem solving
• Python/FastAPI is a plus
• React.js is a plus
• Experience in cybersecurity is a plus, but not required

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with competitive employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Up to 14 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs like One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more!
• Opportunity for advancement
• Remote-first work arrangement

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