Staff Backend Engineer

Job Description

Snyk is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Incubation Accelerator team in London. This role involves supporting Principal Engineers in the design, development, and deployment of groundbreaking products. The Staff Backend Engineer will implement features, work on infrastructure, and contribute to tooling, requiring versatility across various aspects of the backend and systems landscape. They will play a key role in bringing to life Snyk's Agentic UX vision and the integration of technologies like SAST/DAST.Snyk values collaboration, empathy, and innovation, offering a dynamic environment where employees can thrive.Responsibilities:

• Building, experimenting and optimising RAG and multi-step, event driven AI pipelines.
• Rapidly prototype new ideas, work with the team to speak to customers about them, and iterate on the products.
• Designing new AI-native experiences including chat streaming, agentic workflows, generative user interfaces etc – while keeping customer value in focus.
• Designing, building and scaling of our backend infrastructure, with a focus on unique needs of AI products.
• Designing and implementing secure and high performing APIs, MCPs and services.
• Developing cloud and serverless infrastructure to support AI capabilities.
• Continuously optimizing reliability and observability of the pipeline and backend.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering with a focus on backend development (Go/Python).
• Familiarity with generative AI and LLMs, with experience shipping LLM based solutions to production a plus.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
• Deep knowledge of databases - design, migrations, scaling.
• Experience with designing different types of data pipelines, Airflow, event driven etc.
• Experience with serverless architectures.
• Understanding of security best practices and performance optimization.

Snyk offers:

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home allowances.
• Generous vacation and wellness time off.
• Health benefits and employee assistance plans.
• Life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs.