Lead/Staff Software Engineer - Data Collection

About Traceable

Join the future of API security with a company founded by serial innovators reshaping the software industry. Visionaries Jyoti Bansal and Sanjay Nagaraj, creators of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B), established Traceable with a bold ambition: to become the global leader in API security. 

We're experiencing explosive growth, tripling revenue and scaling rapidly to empower enterprises facing evolving API threats. This success is fueled by a winning strategy: unwavering customer obsession, relentless product innovation, and strategic partnerships – all backed by the entrepreneurial expertise behind past industry-defining success. Our cutting-edge solution makes API security manageable for businesses across the globe, ensuring APIs drive growth, not risk.

 

Join this winning team and make your mark! 

About You

You will be part of the agent and data collection team at Traceable. You would leading a small team of engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship. This team is responsible for extracting API data from a wide variety of systems using various mechanisms like eBPF, mirroring, API gateway policies, language agents etc. This team forms the core of Traceable Platform and solves hard problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science
• 5-10 years of experience with strong hold on go/cpp/java
• Strong Data Structures, Algorithms and problem solving skills
• Exceptional Coding Skills
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Experience with writing policies for API Gateways/Load balancer will be plus.
• Quick learner
• Prior experience of contributing to open source projects would be a plus.
• Moderate experience of networking stack (TCP, UDP, L2/L3 layers, L4)
• Moderate experience of various protocols: SSL, TLS v1.2 TLS v.13,  HTTP1, HTTP2, HTTP3, gRPC
• Hands on experience in networking devices (F5 BigIP, Citrix ADC, Avi, Arista etc) will be a big plus
• Languages: Golang, C/C++, Java, JavaScript
• Moderate experience  of Linux networking
• Strong system fundamental & experience (process, cpu, memory, containers, cgroups, filesystem)
• Good experience in kubernetes, AWS
• Must have experience in leading and managing team and projects

If you are a passionate software engineer ready to tackle complex integration challenges and contribute to the growth of our platform, we encourage you to apply!

We value diversity and treatment of employees and applicants is based on merit, talent and qualification. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.  We believe the key to success is bringing together unique perspectives and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

Direct applicants only. Recruiting agencies: Please do not email or call our team. We are not accepting agency candidates.

 

We believe the key to success is bringing together unique perspectives and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

For qualified US: applicants with criminal histories, consideration will be consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.