Senior Software Engineer- Backend (Product & Cloud Security)

The role

You will be a backend engineer focused on security for the Platform team. You will work on authentication, data isolation, secrets management and threat monitoring, and also build general backend and product features.

What you will do

• Work on authentication, authorization and access controls
• Work on data isolation and data loss prevention
• Build active threat monitoring and defenses
• Manage secrets, key rotation and secure-by-default patterns
• Manage vulnerabilities and dependencies
• Build audit logging and data plumbing for customer security and privacy requirements
• Ship backend and in-product engineering work with the team
• Partner with security and compliance leadership
• Review designs for trust boundary problems

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional development experience shipping production code
• Strong backend experience owning services end-to-end
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Python or equivalent languages
• Ability to debug complex distributed systems
• Experience applying security fundamentals in a professional environment
• Clear communicator across engineering, product and compliance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Ability to be on-site in Seattle 3 days a week (M, T, Th)

Nice to have

• Building in support of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR or similar)
• Multi-tenant SaaS at enterprise scale
• NoSQL databases and Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform
• Responding to enterprise security questionnaires or customer security reviews

Benefits

• Significant equity opportunities at a venture-backed company
• Huge impact opportunity to define technical strategy and build foundational systems
• Work directly with the founding team

Before you apply

• Must be able to work on-site in Seattle, WA 3 days a week

About the company

Yoodli is an AI platform for human skills that helps people communicate better, learn new skills and practice conversations. It is backed by Madrona, Neotribe, the Allen Institute for AI and Cercano, and has raised over $60M.