Description:

As a Senior Software Engineer for Platform at Material Security, you will be responsible for building and owning ambitious projects that span the highest-scale systems.
Your main focus will be on balancing the reliability, performance, and resource-consumption of Material’s core platform services and subsystems.
You will build a sophisticated and flexible attachment processing pipeline to detect malicious payloads.
Develop new capabilities for link crawling and phishing site detection, including fake login portals.
Collaborate with Material’s AI/ML experts to integrate more and better models into the phishing detection platform and engineer the signals that power the same.
Take ownership of large engineering initiatives directly connected to top-line business growth.
Scale phishing protection product infrastructure to process more messages, meet tighter latency requirements, and optimize for cost of goods sold (COGS).

Requirements:

Strong software engineering fundamentals, raw coding ability, and problem-solving skills are essential.
Ideal candidates are proficient coders in at least one mainstream language and can easily learn new ones (e.g., Typescript).
Ability to quickly identify the best approaches to tackle challenging problems and effectively communicate decisions to teammates.
Technical maturity to write high-quality code independently and understand risks to reliably ship production code.
Ownership mentality, caring deeply about the impact of your work and finding satisfaction in a job well done.
Strong ownership from planning the approach to monitoring the behavior of shipped code in production.

Material Security is a remote-first workplace with an office in San Francisco, California.
Compensation for this position ranges from $161,500 to $254,100, determined by various factors such as knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience.