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Salary: USD 107,000 - 132,000 / annual
Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. The company protects billions of high-risk interactions for enterprises including leading financial institutions, insurers, and healthcare organizations, informed by more than 8 billion real-world interactions annually and protected by 300+ patents.
As a Software Engineer on the Authentication team, you will help build and operate the cloud services and infrastructure behind Passport as the platform continues its migration to the cloud. This is an individual contributor role where you will take ownership of well-defined projects and services, contribute to technical decisions, and grow your expertise in cloud-native architecture and authentication systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, test, and maintain cloud services and workflows that support Passport and Authentication systems
- Contribute to projects from design and implementation through rollout and operational support, primarily using Go and Python
- Develop and operate cloud-native services across AWS and GCP, including technologies such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3
- Apply established engineering patterns and contribute improvements to service reliability, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability
- Participate in technical discussions and help evaluate tradeoffs involving reliability, latency, security, cost, complexity, and delivery timelines
- Identify technical issues and operational risks within the systems you work on and collaborate with the team to address them
- Partner with software engineering, test engineering, research, and product teams to deliver new capabilities and improve existing systems
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions, providing constructive feedback and learning from other engineers
- Help investigate and resolve production issues, and turn operational learnings into improvements to monitoring, alerting, runbooks, deployments, and service quality
- Use modern observability tools to understand system behavior, troubleshoot issues, and reduce recurring operational problems
- Contribute to the team's engineering practices through documentation, knowledge sharing, and collaboration
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation, including helping cover after-hours alerts as distributed support coverage expands
You will work in a cross-functional environment composed of software engineers, test engineers, research scientists, and product managers. The company offers unlimited PTO, Focus Thursday, company-wide rest days, and a remote-first culture with opportunities for in-person team events.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2-5 years of software engineering experience
- Expertise in programming language of Golang (Go)
- Experience with cloud computing environments, especially AWS or GCP
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and concurrency
- Knowledge of different data storage technologies such as Redis, MySQL, etc.
- Knowledge of Docker and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes
- Linux/Unix system internals
- Proven track record of providing stable and secure code in production environments
- Experience building microservices and RESTful APIs (preferred)
- CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GIT, Jenkins, Spinnaker (preferred)
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or AWS CDK (preferred)
- Experience with AWS managed services such as S3, ElastiCache and DynamoDB (preferred)
- Experience with Python (preferred)
- Self-starter who can excel as an individual within a team of excellent engineers
- Execution oriented and able to follow guidelines to drive a project to successful conclusion
- Experience working closely with Product and Customer Engagement teams
- Excellent communicator with precise documentation skills
- Resilient in the face of challenges, change, and ambiguity
- Resourceful and excited to uncover innovative solutions
