Senior Production Engineer

At Synack, we create technology that unleashes the best cybersecurity talent to secure our digital world.

We protect leading global organizations by reducing companies’ security risk and increasing their resistance to cyber attack. How do we do this? By utilizing the world’s best and most trusted team of ethical hackers who test through our powerful and controlled platform to deliver real security without compromise.

Backed by top-tier venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Microsoft, and Google Ventures, Synack's mission is to leverage global security talent coupled with advanced technology to help enterprises discover security vulnerabilities before they become business problems. Discover the possibilities at Synack!

We are looking for a talented Production Engineer to join our team & help ensure the seamless operation of our production systems, troubleshoot issues effectively and collaborate closely with our development teams. 

Sounds interesting? Keep reading…

Please note: This is a remote position based in the US. We can only hire U.S. citizens for this position due to federal government contract requirements.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Keep Our Systems Running: Understand how our systems and applications function, the limitations, and dependencies, allowing you to respond to and mitigate outages efficiently. Drive best practices and improvements through the RCA process.
• Customer Excellence: Investigate and resolve support requests from our SRT, Customers and internal Synackers, using your debugging and engineering skills. Suggest and/or implement improvements to the process or the application itself.
• Knowledge Sharing and Learning: Always looking for ways to improve yourself, and spreading that knowledge with others around you. Not afraid to ask questions or write a bit of documentation.
• Advance our Monitoring: Bring your DevOps mindset and help improve our monitoring, alerting, dashboards and metrics to keep us proactive instead of reactive.
• Prioritize Digital Safety: Partner with our security team to keep our applications safe, patched, and security conscious.

Here’s what you’ll need

• 5+ years of working in the Cloud [Azure, GCP, AWS]
• 5+ years of Linux command line experience, across distributed systems
• 5+ years of Networking using TCP/IP, SSL, certificates
• 2+ years of Programming in languages such as Rails, GoLang, Python
• Education: A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or practical experience.
• Creativity: You can think outside the box (and inside), have an appetite for the details, and you see complexity as a challenge.

Bonus if you have experience in

• Kubernetes (K8s), Docker
• JavaScript, PubSub, Databases
• GitHub Actions
• Cybersecurity (vulnerabilities, app/network security)

Ready to join us?

Synack is committed to embracing diversity. Our people are our strength.  Each addition to our team is an opportunity to grow and diversify our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints. We strive to be inclusive of Race, Ethnicity, Religion, Sex, LGBTQ+, Veterans, Disabilities, and Age.  Synack welcomes you!

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($115,000 - $185,000 USD p/y) Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits.

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