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Custom Prototyping Engineer

Remote-US

 

About the Role

We’re hiring a Senior Custom Prototyping Engineer to drive rapid prototyping and customer-focused feature development across our core SBOM and supply chain security platform. This hybrid role reports directly to our Senior Director of Engineering, with a dotted-line report to the CEO, and offers broad exposure to both the technical and strategic aspects of building a cybersecurity product in a fast-moving space.

This role will evolve over time: you’ll start by demonstrating and building new capabilities and helping customers secure their software supply chains—and over time, you'll grow closer to the product team to help shape our roadmap and customer experiences.

What You’ll Do

Primary Focus

  • Rapidly prototype and deliver potential customer-facing concepts and features using various tools and languages including Golang and Python

  • Learn to leverage AI to help you rapidly deliver these items both internally and to the customers as needed.

  • Enhance core capabilities centered on SBOM generation, enrichment, ingestion within the broader problem space of first and third-party supply chain risk

  • Engage across the company to demonstrate and get early feedback on workflows and features

  • Collaborate with Product Management to define, test, and iterate on supply chain security use cases

  • Work across teams to help them ensure backend API, and UI features meet performance, security, and usability goals

  • Report directly to the Senior Director of Engineering, and collaborate frequently with the CEO to ensure product alignment with customer and market needs

Secondary Focus

  • Assist in developing and maturing internal product security practices, including:

    • Secure development workflows

    • Dependency management

    • Internal use of SBOMs and vulnerability telemetry

    • Software Vulnerability Management Process

  • Contribute to the engineering culture and help scale secure development processes across teams

Long-Term Scope

  • Opportunity to transition to a more product-oriented engineering role as familiarity with the tech stack and domain grows.

  • Influence roadmap and feature design based on engineering insights and direct customer interaction

  • Help define the evolution of your own role within the company

Who You Are

  • 5+ years experience in software engineering with a strong focus on backend or full-stack development

  • Proficient in Golang and Python, with the ability to quickly prototype and iterate

  • Experience or interest in software supply chain security, open source security, SBOMs, or dependency management

  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and shaping early-stage product features

  • Effective communicator with both technical and product-oriented team members

  • Passion for building secure systems and understanding customer workflows

  • Bonus: Familiarity with SPDX, CycloneDX, SCA tools, or government-related security standards (e.g. EO 14028)

Why Join Us

  • Mission-driven team focused on one of the most urgent problems in cybersecurity

  • High-impact role with exposure to senior leadership and direct customer feedback loops

  • Competitive compensation and meaningful equity

  • Flexible remote work environment

Why Join Us

  • 🔍 Help organizations get new-found visibility into their software, and be more secure!
  • 🌎 Fully remote work
  • 🌴 Unlimited PTO (which we take seriously)
  • 🏥 Medical/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents paid at 100%!
  • 💵 Competitive salary & meaningful stock options
  • 🏦 401(k) and retirement options
  • ⚒️ Help get in at the ground floor of a well-funded, early stage startup!

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