Staff Software Engineer at Snyk

Snyk is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team in Zurich. The successful candidate will play a significant role in the company's technical leadership, setting direction and driving consensus with other engineers to transform Snyk’s technical landscape and help build the next generation of technical leaders. This role is within the Developer Experience team and offers the opportunity to impact a wide range of projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing, designing, and implementing high-quality, large-scale solutions to Snyk’s most complex technical problems.
• Working with peers and across teams to design and implement solutions to large-scale problems.
• Communicating regularly in written and verbal forms to team, peers, and senior leads.
• Taking end-to-end ownership for the delivery of critical efforts, and lead peers in delivering particularly broad efforts as a technical lead.
• Mentoring junior engineers and helping grow the next generation of engineers at Snyk.

Requirements:

• At least 7 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience in large-scale software systems design, and familiarity with fundamental computer science concepts (algorithms, complexity, data structures).
• Proficiency in at least one of our core programming languages (Go, TypeScript), and a willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies.
• Experience in at least one of the fields: Highly reliable, scalable microservice back-ends for web APIs or applications, or other types of large-scale, high reliability systems; Web UIs, CLIs or APIs for use by other engineers; Infrastructure or platform automation, or observability or release tools.
• Demonstrable skill in effective software testing.
• Strong commitment to code quality, and the value of giving and receiving feedback through code reviews.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, and respond with agility when requirements and priorities change.
• Highly effective communicator both verbally and in writing at all levels of the organization.
• Able to work collaboratively, be curious and have a growth mindset.
• Track record of working with peers across the organization to deliver solutions outside of their immediate scope.
• Ability to lift the performance of a team through coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers.

Snyk offers:

• Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
• Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
• Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
• Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances