Staff Software Engineer

Location: London, England, gb

Company Description

About CyberArk

CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.

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Job Description

We are looking for a highly experienced, curious and driven software engineer to join a growing area of our business. Workload Identity presents a huge opportunity to change the way that communication between services is secured. It is also a challenging area which touches on many different foundational pieces of modern software development – networking, security, authorization, SDKs, cloud, Kubernetes and much more.

We are looking for a high-performing engineer with broad experience across security, networking, cloud and more, ideally with specific experience related to the area of Workload Identity. This role has a lot of scope for growth, and will require being adaptable as we move through the product development lifecycle and grow the team.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software to solve Workload Identity challenges, from prototyping to production, and including client and server.
• Develop, shape, lead, mentor, and collaborate with a close-knit team.
• Work with stakeholders (internal and external) to discuss ideas, present work that has been done, discuss priorities and options. In particular bringing the technical point of view on what is possible and what is easier or harder.
• Act as the team’s technical lead, splitting up work for others and guiding them through implementation.

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Qualifications

• Strong software development background including design, architecture, implementation, and testing
• Knowledge of software development in Golang
• Advanced knowledge / experience in some/all of networking, security, cloud, Kubernetes, encryption, PKI, JWT, SPIFFE
• Experience solving problems at enterprise scale, performance and quality standards
• Experience leading a software development team and mentoring others (with our without line management experience)
• Experience in product development and working with product managers and field teams
• Above all else we are looking for someone to bring their unique skills and experience. If this challenge appeals to you then please apply and tell us about your strengths, even if they don’t align with those listed here.

Additional Information

We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, where every individual's unique background, perspective, and contribution is celebrated. We believe that by embracing diversity, we drive innovation and create a stronger, more united team. Inclusion is at the heart of who we are and how we succeed. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete a comprehensive background check as per our internal policy.

CyberArk is an equal opportunities employer. If you would like any special arrangements made for your interview, please inform the EMEA Talent Acquisition team upon your application so that we may take steps to accommodate your needs.