Staff Software Engineer (Ruby/Rails) - Red Canary

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer (Ruby/Rails)
Job Location: Remote
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/redcanary/0bee6553-8818-4ad8-b7bc-f3737097ded7
Job Description: Who We Are
Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber threats. We’re a cyber security company who protects, supports and empowers organizations to make better security decisions so they can focus on their mission without fear of cyber threats.

The combination of our market-defining technology and expertise prevents breaches every day and sets a new standard for partnership in the industry. We’re united in our commitment to customers and grounded in our values, which earned us a place on the Forbes Best Start-up Employers 2022 list. If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk.

What We Believe In
- Do what’s right for the customer
- Be kind and authentic
- Deliver great quality
- Be relentless

Challenges You Will Solve

The Red Canary engineering team builds and operates the platform and products that deliver unmatched threat detection and response! We process billions of events per day from hundreds of thousands of systems worldwide. Every engineer is empowered to make a difference for our customers with unique opportunities to learn new technology and tackle the hardest problems in cybersecurity.

You are passionate about applying your technical expertise to quickly ship an MVP based on requirements. You collaborate with your team and seek feedback internally and from customers in order to refine and improve your deliverables. You’re comfortable diving into large and complex applications that serve hundreds of customers. You understand and leverage proven software development patterns, and also recognize when patterns may require improvements or refactoring.

We are searching for a Staff Software engineer to join us in building the Red Canary platform and its supporting products. We push product enhancements to production multiple times a day, so on day one you will be making security better for a large number of organizations. Our customers depend on us 24/7 and the software you build makes a meaningful difference to improve their security. In this role you may work remote or hybrid from our Denver office.
What You'll Do
Provide technical leadership to others within the engineering organization, and beyond
Identify critical process issues and work with engineering leadership to prioritize and mitigate them
Continuously ship quality product by writing well organized, testable and scalable code
Develop and launch new features and product enhancements as part of a Product team
Support products and applications that operate in a 24x7 production environment
Write clear and concise documentation; share knowledge internally and across teams
Collaborate with Product Management and lead major feature design and implementation from concept to shipping
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve enterprise scale software solutions
Influence, coach, and mentor a team of engineers
What You'll Bring
Demonstrated capability and results shipping high-quality products and features
Accountability and ownership of product features from concept to launch
Ability and desire to mentor other engineers on the team in effective design patterns and software implementation through pairing, and code reviews
Ability to be in an on call rotation within the Engineering department
Tendency to raise the bar, going the extra mile drive improvement and delight our customers
Expert level experience with Ruby on Rails, Golang, or similar
Strong subject matter expertise in public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), database technologies and container orchestration
Confidence making architectural design decisions that improve scalability & performance
Passion for automated software testing to ensure we deliver the highest quality products