GoLang Developer

About us

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As an SDE 2 Back-end Engineer at Astra, you will play a crucial role in the development of a new vulnerability scanner from scratch. You will be architecting & engineering a scalable technical solution from the ground-up.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in vulnerability scanning. The role requires deep collaboration with the founders, product, engineering & security teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be joining our Vulnerability Scanner team which builds a security engine to identify vulnerabilities in technical infrastructure.
• You will be the technical product owner of the scanner, which would involve managing a lean team of backend engineers to ensure smooth implementation of the technical product roadmap.
• Research about security vulnerabilities, CVEs, and zero-days affecting cloud/web/API infrastructure.
• Work in an agile environment of engineers to architect, design, develop and build our microservice infrastructure.
• You will research, design, code, troubleshoot and support (on-call). What you create is also what you own.
• Writing secure, high quality, modular, testable & well documented code for features outlined in every sprint.
• Design and implement APIs in support of other services with a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend using GoLang
• Hands-on experience with creating production-ready code & optimizing it by identifying and correcting bottlenecks.
• Driving strict code review standards among the team.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Working with product managers to ensure product delivery status is transparent & the end product always looks like how it was imagined
• Work closely with Security & Product teams in writing vulnerability detection rules, APIs etc.

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

• Strong 2-4 years relevant development experience in GoLang
• Experience in building a technical product from idea to production.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems in Golang
• Expertise in Goroutines and Channels to write efficient code utilizing multi-core CPU optimally
• Must have hands-on experience with managing AWS/Google Cloud infrastructure
• Hands on experience in creating low latency high throughput REST APIs
• Write test suites and maintain code coverage above 80%
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• Good to have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems.
• Understanding of cloud/web security concepts would be an added advantage

What We Offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally
• Experience with security side of things
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru)
• Open and supportive culture 

• You're proficient in GoLang with a strong foundation in backend frameworks and databases 
• Knowing Solidity is a definite plus but not a requirement
• You have a passion for writing code as well as understanding and crafting the ways systems interact
• You have experience deploying to and implementing solutions in AWS
• You believe in the benefits of agile processes and shipping code often
• You are pragmatic and work to coalesce requirements into reasonable solutions that provide value

• Deploy well-tested, maintainable and scalable software solutions
• Take end-to-end ownership of the technology stack and product 
• Collaborate with other engineers to architect scalable technical solutions
• Embrace and improve our standards and processes to reduce friction and unlock efficiency

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Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) Full Time Bangalore (Potentially Remote)

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop core systems that will be power teams to build services and apps
• Ensure and constantly improve reliability, scalability, security and performance of core apis and infrastructure
• Be proactive in technical decision making and a sound influence in technical discussions
• Work with the product teams to help shape product direction by communicating limitations and possibilities
• Adopt and advocate best practices and guidelines in architecture, code conventions, development practice

Who we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience building web services in Python/Go/Java, preferably in Python with excellent debugging and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms and operating systems
• Proven experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly scalable RESTful web services
• Excellent written and oral communication ability in both technical and non tech. aspects
• Good understanding of benchmarking and performance monitoring - concurrency, multi-threading, logging, database optimisations
• Decent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with shipping code quickly and reliably.

What we offer:

• Ownership of the platform core with a clear roadmap.
• A small cool meritocratic team that's driven by passion.
• An inspiring culture that balances creative exploration & heads down execution.
• Cash compensation upto 20L and negotiable stock in a gold mine.

Requirements:

• Solid experience in Java or Golang
• Good to have exposure to ML
• Should have experience in cloud computing
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• 4+ years of experience in product driven organisation
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)

• Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
• Having strong experience in designing data intensive and scalable systems.
• Comfortable with microservices based architecture.
• Knowledge of software engineering processes and unit testing.
• Past experience of mentoring a team of at least two people.
• Prior experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
• Prior experience with caching.
• Ability to debug and hotfix a problem with production in a swift amount of time.
• Communication skills.