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Software Engineer,Backend

Remote, United States

SpecterOps is searching for a mid-level back-end software engineer to join our Internal and Community Products team. This team develops and maintains internal and open-source projects such as Mythic and Ghostwriter. Because we believe in transparency and open source, we are committed to maintaining, growing, and supporting these projects for the benefit of the security community.

As a Software Engineer, you will design, develop, maintain, and document back-end components across our projects using languages and technologies such as Python, Go, Docker, and PostgreSQL. T The work spans web applications, REST and GraphQL APIs, command-line tools, containerized services, and infrastructure automation, including technologies such as Ansible and Terraform.

Our software plays an active role in authorized adversarial cybersecurity operations, including penetration testing and red team engagements. A security background is not required; we can teach the security concepts and workflows needed to work effectively on these projects. We are a small team, so successful candidates should be comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership of problems, and collaborating with teammates when needed.

Salary Range: $125,000 - $150,000 base salary annually, commensurate with experience.  

Location: This position is remote, based in the U.S. with optional travel quarterly for in person company events and other ad hoc meetings. 

Candidate must be authorized to work and reside in the United States; we do not currently sponsor immigration visas. 

Responsibilities  

  • Design, develop, support, and maintain back-end components of our internal and open-source projects.
  • Develop and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs, services, command-line tools, data models, and integrations using languages such as Python and Go.
  • Work with containerized applications and supporting services using technologies such as Docker and Docker Compose.
  • Contribute to infrastructure automation and deployment tooling using technologies such as Ansible and Terraform.
  • Independently investigate technical problems, evaluate potential solutions, and drive work through implementation, testing, and release.
  • Write and maintain automated tests and participate in code reviews to improve software quality and maintainability.
  • Follow SpecterOps's code style guides and development processes.
  • Contribute to and maintain technical documentation for the components and features you develop.
  • Assist internal users encountering problems with project components.
  • Monitor and participate in external discussions, issues, and pull requests on GitHub related to our open-source projects.

Requirements 

  • 4+ years of software design and application development experience.
  • Experience developing extensible APIs and highly maintainable services.
  • Professional experience with back-end languages such as Go, Python, or comparable languages.
  • Familiarity with relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL.
  • Experience working with Git and modern collaborative software development workflows.
  • Experience developing or supporting containerized applications using Docker or similar technologies.
  • Ability to independently investigate problems, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership of work through completion.
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies and domain concepts as project needs evolve.
  • Strong attention to detail, plus solid written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to organize and prioritize groups of tasks.
  • Desire to embody our core values of passionate curiosity, consistent improvement, empathy, sustainability, humility, and empowerment through transparency.
  • Ability to successfully complete a criminal background investigation.

Nice to Haves 

  • Experience with Django, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker Compose, Ansible, or Terraform.
  • Experience developing command-line applications or tooling.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software.
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity, penetration testing, red team operations, or other adversarial security disciplines.
  • Familiarity with Jira and Agile sprint planning.
  • Experience working across multiple languages, services, or software projects.

What We Offer  

  • Health/Dental/Vision/life insurance: 100% covered for both the employee and their family      
  • Flexible time off policy      
  • 13 paid holidays annually      
  • 401(k) with up to 4% company match      
  • Stock Options & quarterly bonuses   
  • Remote work: $1,500 new hire allowance to set up home office      
  • $500 annual home office allowance after first year   
  • $150 monthly cell phone and internet reimbursement     
  • $5,000 annual professional development allowance     
  • $5,250 towards continuing education or student loan repayment      
  • $1,200 annual budget for lifestyle, wellness, pet insurance and more   
  • A one-time $10,000 benefit towards family planning       
  • In person and virtual employee events throughout the year      
  • And of course, company swag!      

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.  To request reasonable accommodations, please contact us at careers@specterops.io  

Unsolicited resumes are not accepted.  

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