Software Team Lead

Why join us NOW

APIs form the foundation of the application innovation needed to drive business success today. Across banks, retail and transportation, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and intelligent cities, every web and mobile app depends on APIs. Without secure APIs, businesses cannot rapidly innovate. Salt Security has delivered the only patented solution to identify and prevent API attacks, using Big Data and AI to thwart this top threat to businesses today.

We are backed by the best investors in the world (YCombinator, S-Capital, Tenaya, Sequoia, Capital G, and more) and recently achieved a $1.4B valuation.

We have an amazing customer base - https://salt.security/customers and we’re at a unique sweet spot in a startup’s lifecycle - the customer demand is huge, yet our team is small and super-high quality.

We are growing fast, and the opportunity window to join as a member of the core team is closing.

We have many challenges we have not yet tackled, waiting for talented and passionate people to own.

We have many leading positions still to fill.

Our org structure is constantly evolving to meet our business needs, creating many growth opportunities.

Now is the opportunity to be a partner in this growth and help shape the future of Salt Security as the world’s leader in API security.

Who We Are?

At Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving a diverse set of engineering challenges.

Want to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!

The Team

Salt is looking for a team leader to lead the Detection and Prevention engineering team. Our team is made of strong all-around players, well-experienced, highly motivated, independent, innovative, fast learners, great problem solvers, and great persons to work with.

Our engineering challenges involve big data, and stream processing in super high-scale environments which keeps on increasing as the customers increase their usage and new customers join. Furthermore, we are seeking more ways to identify attackers and attack vectors and provide a better posture of the security status of our customers.

To learn more about Salt Security’s R&D - https://tinyurl.com/salt-rnd

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience (3+ years in Scala/Java/Go)
• 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team (3+ engineers)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or relevant employment background
• Experienced in designing, developing, and debugging complex, distributed systems (microservices, event-driven)
• Experience with developing large-scale, data-oriented applications
• Passion for writing clean, extensible, and robust code

Preferred (but not mandatory) experience:

• Hands-on experience with Kafka and the various technologies in its ecosystem (Kafka streams, Kafka connect, etc.) or similar technology - A big advantage
• No-SQL columnar databases
• Building Microservices in AWS