Software Engineer (Ruby/Rails)

Who We Are

Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber threats. We’re a cyber security company who protects, supports and empowers organizations to make better security decisions so they can focus on their mission without fear of cyber threats.

The combination of our market-defining technology and expertise prevents breaches every day and sets a new standard for partnership in the industry. We’re united in our commitment to customers and grounded in our values, which earned us a place on the Forbes Best Start-up Employers 2022 list.  If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk.

What We Believe In

- Do what’s right for the customer

- Be kind and authentic

- Deliver great quality

- Be relentless

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 to internally enable our Engineering groups with creative solutions. 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

Targeted base salary: $128,000 - 143,000 + bonus eligibility and equity depending on experience.

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.

This is a pipeline role in which we accept applicants on an ongoing basis.

Why Red Canary?

Red Canary is where people embody our mission to improve security outcomes for all. People work hard to maintain a culture that encourages authenticity in order to do your best work. Our people are driven and committed to finding the best security outcomes, delivering real and actionable answers, and being transparent along the way. 

At Red Canary, we offer a very rich benefits program to our full-time team members so they can focus on their families and improving our customers’ security. For a full list of benefits, please review our Benefits Summary:

https://resource.redcanary.com/rs/003-YRU-314/images/RedCanary_2024BenefitsSummary.pdf?version=0

Individuals seeking employment at Red Canary are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.