Senior Software Engineer- Platform Group

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 smart 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 demand from customers is huge, yet our team is small and super-high quality.

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!

About the team:

The core of Salt lies a high-performance data processing challenge: managing billions of customer requests daily. The Edge team tackles this by building, deploying, and monitoring the infrastructure required to collect and process this massive traffic volume efficiently. Their expertise ensures the system can handle the diverse infrastructure variations across our customer base.

Who Are You?

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Experience with at least 2 of the programming languages:
• Go (big advantage) / Scala / Java / Kotlin / C# / C++
• Passionate and experienced in implementing Microservice patterns in a cloud-native environment
• Dynamic, self-directed and capable of absorbing new information quickly
• Experience with Kubernetes and writing helm charts
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with Cloud - AWS / Azure / GCP

Preferred (but not mandatory) experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or relevant military background
• Platform / DevOps / Leadership positions in the past
• Experience with Linux Networking tools (iptables / tcpdump)
• Experience with GitOps (Argo / Flux / etc.)