Staff Software Engineer (Athena)
Core
Building Athena, a system that secures the open source supply chain by processing vulnerability reports, validating findings, and routing signals to remediation for enterprise customers.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Backend/Infrastructure)
Builds
Backend systems and data pipelines for the Athena clearing house on GCP
Domain
Cybersecurity / Open Source Supply Chain / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, GCP, Terraform, backend system architecture, data pipeline design, observability, incident response, code review standards
Preferred skills
Security, supply chain, or infrastructure domain background
Technologies
Go, GCP, Terraform
Responsibilities
Own significant domains like customer onboarding workflows or data validation pipelines; drive architecture and implementation of backend systems; lead design of data pipelines for unstructured vulnerability reports; establish engineering best practices; partner on technical planning and roadmap sequencing
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership
