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Snyk

Staff Backend Engineer

London , United Kingdom
On-site

AI overview

Contribute to innovative AI product development by designing and building scalable backend infrastructure and experience with cutting-edge technologies.

Snyk, the leader in secure AI software development, empowers organizations to build fast and stay secure by unleashing developer productivity and reducing business risk. The company’s AI Trust Platform seamlessly integrates into developer and security workflows to accelerate secure software delivery in the AI Era. Snyk delivers trusted, actionable insights and automated remediation, enabling modern organizations to innovate without limits. Snyk is redefining secure AI-driven software delivery for over 4,500 customers worldwide today.

Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.

Our Opportunity

Are you a versatile and strong backend developer with experience in API integrations and data pipelines, eager to contribute to building transformative products? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment supporting the technical execution of innovative ideas?

Snyk’s Incubation Accelerator is seeking a Staff Engineer with a Backend & Systems focus to support our Principal Engineers in the design, development, and deployment of groundbreaking products. This role will involve implementing features, working on infrastructure, and contributing to tooling, requiring versatility across various aspects of the backend and systems landscape. You will play a key role in bringing to life our Agentic UX vision and the integration of technologies like SAST/DAST. Familiarity with the broader ecosystem, including Hugging Face, OpenAI, and cloud platforms, will be a significant asset.

As a Staff Incubation Engineer within Snyk’s Incubation Accelerator, you’ll design, ship, and own key backend projects for a new product. We are looking for individuals who have full stack experience in enterprise products, and have built products before where machine learning is a key component.

You’ll Spend Your Time:

  • Building, experimenting and optimising RAG and multi-step, event driven AI pipelines.
  • 0-1 product development: rapidly prototype new ideas, work with the team to speak to customers about them, and iterate on the products.
  • Designing new AI-native experiences including chat streaming, agentic workflows, generative user interfaces etc – while keeping customer value in focus.
  • Designing, building and scaling of our backend infrastructure, with a focus on unique needs of AI products.
  • Designing and implementing secure and high performing APIs, MCPs and services.
  • Developing cloud and serverless infrastructure to support AI capabilities.
  • Continuously optimizing reliability and observability of the pipeline and backend.

What You’ll Need:

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering with a focus on backend development (Go/Python).
  • Familiarity with generative AI and LLMs, with experience shipping LLM based solutions to production a plus.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
  • Deep knowledge of databases - design, migrations, scaling.
  • Experience with designing different types of data pipelines, Airflow, event driven etc.
  • Experience with serverless architectures.
  • Understanding of security best practices and performance optimization.

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We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!

 

About Snyk

Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.

Benefits & Programs

Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.

  • Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
  • Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
  • Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
  • Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
  • Health Insurance: Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
  • Additional benefits and allowances: Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances
  • Paid Parental Leave: 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
Snyk

Snyk helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure. Continuously find and fix vulnerabilities for npm, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems, PyPI and more.

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