Staff Software Engineer (Athena)

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Athena) based in Canada.** This role offers the opportunity to design and scale critical infrastructure that improves the security and reliability of the open-source software ecosystem. You will take ownership of a key engineering domain, building backend systems that process complex security data at enterprise scale. The position combines distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and security-focused engineering challenges. You will influence architecture decisions, establish engineering best practices, and help shape the future of a high-impact platform. Working within a remote-first engineering environment, you will collaborate with talented teams while driving technical excellence and innovation. This is an opportunity for a senior engineer to create lasting impact by building secure, scalable, and production-ready systems used by organizations worldwide. ### Accountabilities: - Own and drive the development of a significant technical domain, such as customer onboarding workflows, entitlement management, or data validation pipelines. - Design, architect, and implement reliable backend systems using Go and cloud technologies, ensuring solutions are scalable, observable, tested, and maintainable. - Build and improve data processing pipelines that ingest, validate, deduplicate, and transform complex vulnerability information into structured outputs. - Establish and promote engineering best practices across the team, including code review standards, testing strategies, observability practices, and incident response processes. - Partner with technical leadership and engineering stakeholders to define architecture, technical priorities, and roadmap execution. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define interface contracts, improve data quality, and deliver reliable platform capabilities. - Take end-to-end ownership of complex systems, from initial design and prototyping through production deployment and ongoing optimization. - Act as a technical leader by mentoring engineers, influencing decisions, and raising engineering standards across the organization. ## **Requirements:** - 7+ years of backend software engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, building, and owning complex production systems. - Strong experience with Go programming and backend system development. - Experience working with cloud infrastructure, particularly GCP, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform. - Deep understanding of designing systems that process, validate, and manage data from diverse and unstructured sources. - Proven ability to take business requirements from concept or prototype stages through to reliable, scalable production services. - Experience designing systems involving customer access controls, entitlement models, workflow management, or similar complex business logic. - Strong knowledge of production engineering practices, including monitoring, observability, reliability, and incident management. - Ability to think analytically, investigate complex technical problems, and develop effective solutions. - Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical teams and clearly explain complex concepts. - Experience in security, software supply chain, infrastructure, or related technical domains is a plus. ## **Benefits:** - Competitive compensation package based on experience and skills. - Stock options with opportunities for long-term ownership. - Fully remote-first work environment with flexible scheduling. - Monthly stipend to support coworking spaces, phone, and internet expenses. - Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents. - Flexible paid time off to support work-life balance and personal well-being. - 18 weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employee…