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About the role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership on Coalition’s Scanning Engine & Data Collection team. This team is responsible for the distributed systems that continuously scan the internet and our customers’ environments to collect the security data that powers our cyber insurance underwriting and our attack surface management product, Coalition Control.
What they're looking for
- Strong experience as a Senior Software Engineer (or equivalent) working on backend or systems-level services
- Proficiency in at least one of Python or Go, with the ability and willingness to work in both languages over time
- Demonstrated experience with systems design for distributed or high-availability services, including clear understanding of scalability, reliability, and observability
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining scanning, detection, or similar engine-like systems (e.g., vulnerability scanning, security scanning, data processing pipelines, or similar high-throughput engines)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization
- Experience working in a cloud-native environment (e.g., microservices, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, logging)
More about this role
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership on Coalition’s Scanning Engine & Data Collection team. This team is responsible for the distributed systems that continuously scan the internet and our customers’ environments to collect the security data that powers our cyber insurance underwriting and our attack surface management product, Coalition Control.
In this role, you will design, build, and operate large-scale cloud services that run internet-wide and customer-specific scans, ingest and normalize third-party threat intelligence, and surface high-quality findings into our underwriting, risk, and security workflows. You’ll work closely with other senior engineers, security, product, and data teams to evolve the architecture of our scanning platform, improve its performance and...
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