Backend Developer

Job Description

WithSecure™ protects businesses all over the world from modern threats. We do this through a Co-security approach born from first-hand knowledge that no one can solve every cyber security problem alone. Every single day, our diverse, growing team fights against online extortion, threats to national infrastructure, the unlawful spread of sensitive information, and everything in-between. The best part about working for WithSecure is our people! We are a community of dedicated and passionate professionals that take workplace happiness seriously. If you’re looking for something that’s more than just a job – we’d love to hear from you.

Are you interested in learning what it takes to build highly scalable production grade distributed systems and want to work with the most modern cloud technologies, then this role is for you! We, in Detection and Response R&D unit, are looking for a Backend Developer to join our new and exciting cloud project. The technologies we build provide industry leading capabilities to detect and respond to advanced cyber attacks.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, maintaining and operating backend systems
• Understanding the business requirements and finding elegant solutions to fulfil them
• Stay up to date with public cloud technologies and understand how to apply those
• Building observability into the systems so that they are easy to operate
• Building CICD pipelines to deploy your code all the way to production
• Take ownership of the systems you develop and resolve any issues should they rise

What are we looking for?

• 3+ years experience with Python/NodeJS/TypeScript.
• Hands-on working experience using public cloud services and deployment automation, mainly in AWS.
• Strong experience in API development, including RESTful and GraphQL, with a focus on scalability and performance.
• Good communication, team work skills and positive attitude.
• Security mindset.
• Understanding of modern software development practices that ensure safe, reliable and continuous deployments using cloud native tools.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Bonus points

• Experience with Azure and GCP.
• Hands-on with Opensearch/Elasticsearch.
• Understanding of data ingestion piplines and indexing at scale.

About the team

We are a high performing team working on world class systems. We have people from multiple cultures and backgrounds, spread across multiple sites and we use remote-first approach when collaborating within the team. However, this is not a remote-only position.

We work in close co-operation with other teams at WithSecure such as Threat Hunters who provide the Managed Detection and Response service to our clients and with teams who are specialised in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to name a few.

What can you expect from the job

• Well established remote working culture
• Real meaning for your work, make an impact and help to protect organisations and individuals from cyber threats
• Work in the domain that is the fastest growing market in cyber security (XDR)
• Use of the most modern cloud based technologies
• Work with highly scalable systems that process billions of events per day as well as Serverless REST & GraphQL APIs
• Emphasis on deployment automation and immutable infrastructure
• Something new to learn, even after months and years!

The applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so don't hesitate to apply!

A security background check will be conducted for the selected candidate, in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance act 726/2014.