Principal Software Engineer - Valimail

Company Overview

Valimail is a fast growing, venture funded startup and the leader in Email Authentication as a Service. Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor at an important technology innovator and to help build a major business service category. We have built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — for the first time it makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). We're committed to building a more trusted email ecosystem.

Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented classes will only apply to roles if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Valimail, we encourage you to break through that statistic. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need in the future. NO ONE ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We hope you're open to learning new skills in order to grow with us. Make our team, your team!

Position Overview

Valimail is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering. In this role, you would be working on tasks and topics meant to unblock and level up others on the team, as well as investigate current and new features and functionality. You will be working to build out our industry leading SaaS DMARC application, building out APIs and other improvements to the platform.  This team values shared common goals and the adaptability needed to reach those goals, clear communication, and a desire to work cross-functionally.

The ideal candidate regularly demonstrates our behaviors/values (Be inclusive, Be Trustworthy, Be a Learner and Be Driven) in addition to demonstrating a strong technical acumen. 

The application window for this role will close on September 27th, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.  This role is open to individuals within GMT-7 (Pacific Time) - GMT-4 (Eastern Time) time zones. 

A day in the life of a Principal Software Engineer:

Our team is distributed internationally, working within the US time zones, which means that all of our work happens remotely and to varying degrees of synchronicity. Every week will be a little different. A typical week may include:

• Collaborating with other teams and engineers across engineering to understand the customer experiences we want to provide and explore how we can approach those problems
• Pairing with others to help them level up and unblock them technically
• Spikes or Proof of Concepts to determine feasibility and risks around a new idea
• Point out security concerns or other risks around current or new features with pragmatic solutions to mitigate them
• Advise on developing new or current features in Ruby on Rails and Go
• Respond to issues or bugs that may be escalated or may need escalation
• Run the Architectural Review Board meeting as a way to encourage cross-collaboration and productive idea exchange
• Explore current architecture to provide a deeper understanding of its current state to other engineers
• Align with fellow engineering managers and leadership tackling cross-department needs

What You'll Be Doing: 

• Assisting and mentoring peers through PR reviews and pair-programming
• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Building and maintaining applications in a variety of languages including Ruby on Rails and Go 
• Implementing features and fixes working hand-in-hand with cross functional teams including other Engineering teams and Product
• Communicating across teams and stakeholders so others at the company, both inside and outside of engineering, understand the reasoning and impact of work being accomplished
• Work with the VP of Engineering to cultivate a culture of technical excellence, communication, celebration, and learning
• Collaboratively define, scope, prioritize, and estimate work demonstrating business need and impact
• Proactively prioritize work articulating impact while keeping business goals in mind
• Create, align, and execute new technical approaches as needed
• Support tech leads and senior engineers in engineering execution and overall technical decision making
• Providing technical expertise around multiple kinds of projects potentially including ones related to infrastructure, security, platform architecture, and product architecture 

About You: 

• 8+ years of experience in building web applications 
• Significant experience in Ruby on Rails and Go
• Proficient understanding of how to write, analyze and optimize PostgreSQL
• Digs into overall system architecture to understand how all the parts and pieces connect and helps use that information to inform technical approaches and decisions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.  Encourages over-communication within teams to reduce inefficiencies and ensure clarity.
• Experience working in a distributed team and with a modern tech stack.
• Approachable, organized, accountable.
• Comfort and ability to operate in a remote environment while effectively pursuing both independent work and collaborative work 

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Hotwire, React, Redis, RSpec, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
• Experience with providing security perspectives using a pragmatic approach

Who We Are

Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company's full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest-growing DMARC solution with the largest global market share and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments. 

Valimail is an E-Verify Employer. For more information on E-Verify, review the posters here. 

Why Join Us?

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is USD$190,000-$210,000; CAD $180,000 - $210,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan.  Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
• Six weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, and an additional 6 weeks for parents giving birth
• Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
• Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work

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