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Senior Software Engineer

Redmond, WA, US /...
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Strac

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Category
Technical
Experience
4-7 years
Type
Full-Time
Location
Redmond, WA, US / Seattle, WA,...
Salary
$110,000 - $160,000
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What is Strac

Strac is an agentless Data Discovery aka DSPM Data Security Posture Management DLP Data Leak Prevention that automatically discovers classifies and remediates sensitive data alert label redact mask block delete.

Strac protects SaaS Cloud Gen AI and Endpoints like O365 Slack GDrive AWS Salesforce ChatGPT Jira Mac Zendesk and 40 integrations.

Who uses Strac

Strac protects enterprise companies like UiPath ThredUP Cryptocom

Who are we

We are ex-Amazonians who spent over 11 years at Amazon building their payment security infrastructure including building payment secure zone on AWS securing their billions of cards and bank accounts.

How much have we raised

We also raised 35MM seed round from exceptional investors. We are cash flow positive.

About the role

Skills Java JavaScript Nodejs Python Linux Machine Learning Serverless Amazon Web Services AWS Elasticsearch

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in software development and an excellent grasp of low-level and cloud technologies.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Strac you will build cutting-edge full-stack technologies that will transform the way businesses scan and remediate sensitive data across various SaaS Cloud Gen AI Endpoints. You will work closely with core platform engineers to connect these integrations in a concise scalable and resilient manner.

Responsibilities

  1. Design develop and maintain full-stack software solutions focusing on security compliance scalability and performance
  2. Develop and optimize network solutions
  3. Participate in code reviews contribute to team knowledge sharing and maintain technical documentation
  4. Collaborate on machine learning projects including data preparation model building and implementation
  5. Write clean scalable code using programming languages such as JavaScript Python and Java
  6. Work within AWS cloud architecture designing and deploying scalable highly available and fault-tolerant systems

Minimum Qualifications

  1. Deep proficiency in JavaScript Nodejs Python or Java
  2. Strong experience using AI-native development tools like Claude Code Cursor to accelerate coding debugging and refactoring
  3. Hands-on experience using AI/ML tools e.g. OpenAI Hugging Face LangChain vector databases and integrating AI into production systems
  4. Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts such as LLMs embeddings prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation RAG
  5. Expertise in AWS services Lambda EC2 DynamoDB RDS ECS ECR SQS and AWS networking VPC Subnets ALB IAM
  6. Experience with scalable architecture design APIs and both SQL and NoSQL databases
  7. Excellent problem-solving communication and debugging skills
  8. Demonstrated ability to thrive in high-ownership collaborative fast-paced environments

Benefits

In addition to base pay and high equity Strac employees get Health Insurance Medical Dental and Vision and Life Insurance

Interview Process

  1. Chat with the founder to better understand the role and expectations
  2. Technical Home Assignment
  3. Technical Coding Interview 1
  4. Technical Coding Interview 2
  5. Cultural Fit Interview