Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of runtime security technology that enables vulnerability detection and protection against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented agent-based instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate security assessments and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise from development to operations to production.
About the Position
Contrast is seeking a senior software engineer to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building highly scalable Java backends using Spring and MySQL hosted in AWS. You will lead a small team building a suite of verification tools that will improve the accuracy of Contrast’s findings by automatically detecting when vulnerabilities have been resolved, saving our customers time by allowing them to focus on active, high-confidence findings. In this role, you will lead the team through all phases of the software development lifecycle, with a heavy focus on research, design, and development.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of verification solutions in close collaboration with product managers, security researchers, and customer-facing field teams.
- Build and maintain performant backends using Java, Spring, MySQL, ActiveMQ, and Kubernetes.
- Constantly collaborate with junior team members, including mentoring, pair programming, design review, and pull requests.
- Pilot new initiatives to keep our technology stack ahead of the curve.
- Help provide support for the system, including running deployments, monitoring production systems, and triaging bug reports from our world-class support team.
Qualifications
- You have at least 5 years of experience building modern, scalable, and high-performing backend web applications.
- You have experience in a technical leadership role where you’ve designed technical requirements and mentored junior engineers implementing them.
- You have significant experience working with Java / Spring or similar to design and implement robust and scalable APIs.
- You are highly proficient with MySQL or similar databases.
- You have experience with event streaming technologies such as Kafka and search/analytics technologies (OpenSearch or similar).
- You have experience in developing with Docker and deploying to Kubernetes or similar containerized environments.
- You're a problem solver. You believe the best work is the result of finding the simplest solution to complex challenges.
- Your code is clean, your designs are elegant and you are constantly refactoring.
- You own your work. Whether a nasty bug or an awesome feature, you put your name on every line of code.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
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