Software Engineer - Scanning Engine

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join Coalition’s Scanning Engine and Data Collection team. Our team provides critical data to help guide the underwriting of Cyber Insurance policies. Therefore, you will be working on and creating distributed (cloud) systems to achieve this goal.

This is a fun and driven team of engineers ranging from junior to principal, who are solving extremely challenging problems at internet scale. This includes broadly scanning the entire internet, deeply scanning all our insurance policy holders and security customers, as well as managing all of our threat intel feed ingestion and backend APIs. 

This data powers both our decisioning and pricing for insurance underwriting, our attack surface management tool, Coalition Control, for risk management of both policyholders as well as revenue generation as a standalone security product. It’s a big challenge and a fun problem to solve and optimize, and it directly affects the success of our entire business.

The ideal candidate will have solid networking fundamentals and experience with running distributed systems at scale. This is a fully remote role with the team distributed across the EU, USA and Canada.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, test, and debug code for cloud services
• Perform regular code reviews
• Participate in design reviews
• Implement robust code

Skills and Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience with cloud computing technologies (like AWS or similar)
• Experience with at least one of Python or Golang
• Familiar with cloud services
• Familiar with RESTful APIs
• Familiar with code/algorithm complexity analysis
• Excellent oral and written communications skills

Bonus Points

• Prior experience with insurance or security technologies, internet scanning or vulnerability management
• In-depth knowledge of AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and the Atlassian tool suite
• Experience working in the InfoSec, Tech or Cybersecurity markets

Perks

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Why Coalition? 

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.

Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion. 

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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