Staff Incubation Engineer

Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.

Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.

Our Opportunity

Are you a versatile and strong backend developer with experience in API integrations and data pipelines, eager to contribute to building transformative products? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment supporting the technical execution of innovative ideas?

Snyk’s Incubation Accelerator is seeking a Staff Engineer with a Backend & Systems focus to support our Principal Engineers in the design, development, and deployment of groundbreaking products. This role will involve implementing features, working on infrastructure, and contributing to tooling, requiring versatility across various aspects of the backend and systems landscape. You will play a key role in bringing to life our Agentic UX vision and the integration of technologies like SAST/DAST. Familiarity with the broader ecosystem, including Hugging Face, OpenAI, and cloud platforms, will be a significant asset.

As a Staff Incubation Engineer within Snyk’s Incubation Accelerator, you’ll design, ship, and own key backend projects for a new product. We are looking for individuals who have full stack experience in enterprise products, and have built products before where machine learning is a key component.

You’ll Spend Your Time:

• Building, experimenting and optimising RAG and multi-step, event driven AI pipelines.
• 0-1 product development: rapidly prototype new ideas, work with the team to speak to customers about them, and iterate on the products.
• Designing new AI-native experiences including chat streaming, agentic workflows, generative user interfaces etc – while keeping customer value in focus.
• Designing, building and scaling of our backend infrastructure, with a focus on unique needs of AI products.
• Designing and implementing secure and high performing APIs, MCPs and services.
• Developing cloud and serverless infrastructure to support AI capabilities.
• Continuously optimizing reliability and observability of the pipeline and backend.

What You’ll Need:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering with a focus on backend development.
• Familiarity with generative AI and LLMs, with experience shipping LLM based solutions to production a plus.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
• Deep knowledge of databases - design, migrations, scaling.
• Experience with designing different types of data pipelines, Airflow, event driven etc.
• Experience with serverless architectures.
• Understanding of security best practices and performance optimization.

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We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!

About Snyk

Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.