Valimail is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Valimail, the global leader in zero-trust email security, as a Principal Software Engineer and contribute to building a more trusted email ecosystem. In this role, you will work on tasks and topics meant to unblock and level up others on the team, investigate current and new features and functionality, and build out our industry-leading SaaS DMARC application.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is $190,000-$210,000; CAD $180,000 - $210,000
• 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