Company Overview

Expanse helps IT operations and security teams discover, manage, and secure all of their global internet assets. Current Expanse customers comprise more than 10 percent of the routable internet and they use the company's platform to monitor for real-time changes to their infrastructure. Using leading-edge collection and analysis technology, Expanse improves organizations' visibility, governance, and IT operations, reducing risk associated with internet-connected assets and enabling a secure digital transformation. Founded in 2012, Expanse is headquartered in San Francisco and is now backed by more than $135M in funding.

Position Summary 

As a Senior Engineer on one of our feature teams, you will be an integral part of the group that enables Expanse’s customers to engage with their data through our APIs and UI. You will build out backend systems, select technology stacks, collaborate with other engineers, and own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing API and UI features. You will draw upon your experience to rapidly investigate and prototype new functionality built upon cutting-edge technology, then switch to implementation mode to deliver products built upon your research. You will guide and mentor your team in enterprise software development, architecture development, and technology evaluation. You will represent your team in architecture roadmap planning sessions, interfacing regularly with other staff engineers, architects, and product managers.

Your expertise will help define and secure the perimeters of the world's most important organizations. This position can be based in our offices in New York, NY or San Francisco, CA.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and optimize Kubernetes-hosted web applications for maximum speed and scale, using a number of backend storage technologies, including Postgres, Elasticsearch, and S3
• Ensure your team delivers high output and mentor other engineers.
• Continuously seek ways to make a substantial impact on your team and the broader engineering organization.
• Help drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation.
• Anticipate challenges of architecting at scale, align architecture vision with strategic initiatives.

About You

• 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business
• Experience in providing technical leadership of teams building enterprise features on a multi-tenant SaaS platform at scale (examples: role-based access, SAML integrations, feature flag frameworks)
• Excited to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production; results driven, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure
• Comfortable supporting your work in production
• Thorough understanding of design patterns
• Strong familiarity with Python or Java
• Solid understanding of various methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency
• Strong familiarity with databases, data modeling, profiling, and performance optimization
• Experienced and opinionated about API design and distributed backend systems
• Knowledge of AWS or GCP is a strong plus
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits

• 100% coverage of employee healthcare benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• 60% coverage for dependent healthcare benefits
• Flexible PTO + 8 company holidays
• Company sponsored parental leave
• 401k Plan
• Opportunities for professional development to attend conferences, classes, and workshops
• $75 every quarter as discretionary team building stipend
• $50 every month in cell phone reimbursement
• $65 every month for your wellness to cover costs of gyms, courses and other activities
• $300, one time, to customize your desk space
• Pre-tax commuter, HSA, & FSA benefits
• Snacks and beverages in the office + lunch stipend
• Company-wide events including team building, holiday party, and offsites

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Expanse is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, transgender status), medical condition, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, marital status, military or veteran status, political activities, affiliations, citizenship, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].