Job description
Challenges You Will Solve
Red Canary’s engineering team builds and operates the platform to deliver unmatched threat detection and response. We process billions of events per day from hundreds of thousands of systems worldwide. Every engineer is on the front lines of cyber security with unique opportunities to learn new technology and tackle the hardest problem in cyber security.
You are passionate about applying your technical expertise to quickly ship an MVP based on requirements, and refine it through feedback from your customers. You’re comfortable diving into a large Rail application that serves 200+ customers. We are searching for a Rails engineer to join us in building the Red Canary platform. We continuously push product improvements to production so on day one you will be making security better for a large number of organizations. Our customers depend on us 24⁄7 and the software you build makes a meaningful difference to improve their security. In this role you may work from our Denver office or remote.
What You’ll Do
- Work dynamically with your engineering team as you build, test, and refine Red Canary’s product suite
- Write great code and tackle a wide variety of technical problems - help with bugs, new features and small enhancements on the product
- Collaborate with our product management and design teams to improve Red Canary’s offerings
- Build a product that our customers love - Ensure great quality of your code through tests, both pre- and post deployment
What You’ll Bring
- Have 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Love to write code and take full ownership of a product or feature from concept to launch
- Are experienced with Ruby on Rails and other common libraries such as RSpec and Sidekiq
- Have experience with Javascript, HAML, Redis, Postgres, AWS, Docker or some combination of similar tech
- Ability to be in an on call rotation within the Engineering department
- Architect scalable applications that serves both internal and external users and high-volume background tasks
- Have confidence making architectural design decisions that improve scalability & performance
- Test the software you write to ensure we deliver the highest quality products
- Have deep knowledge of operating Postgres at scale, including replication, monitoring and optimization, preferred
The targeted base salary for this role is $126,000 - $145,000 per year. This role is also eligible for participation in the company’s bonus program, and eligible for a grant of stock options, subject to the approval of the company’s board of directors. The application deadline is May 23rd, 2025.
Benefit Highlights:
- 100% Paid Premiums: Red Canary offers a 100% paid plan option for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents. No waiting period.
- Health & Wellness - Access to mental health services, Employee Assistance Program and additional programs to incentivize healthy habits.
- Fertility Benefits: All new hires are eligible for benefits as of their first day.
- Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge including vacation, sick, bereavement, jury duty, and holidays.
- Paid Parental Leave- Full base pay to bond/care for your new child.
- Pre-Tax Plans - Red Canary offers a variety of plans to fit you and your dependent specific needs including FSA, HRA and HSA, with employer funding to offset out of pocket health care expenses.
- Flexible Work Environment- With 60% remote workforce, Canaries can work virtually from almost anywhere in the US.
