Traceable was founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneurs, Jyoti Bansal and Sanjay Nagaraj, to become the industry leader in API security. Since the API is now the lynchpin of these modern application architectures, they founded Traceable to protect every API and to help ensure the security of the services and data that power modern applications.
Today, Traceable has grown to be the industry's leading API security platform that identifies and tests APIs, evaluates API risk posture, stops API attacks, and provides deep analytics for threat hunting and forensic research. We aim to be the industry's chosen solution and trusted advisor to security and risk management leaders, data security leaders, as well as software engineers looking to secure their APIs, and build better software faster. Based in San Francisco CA, Traceable is funded by Unusual Ventures, IVP, & Tiger Global Management.
About Traceable
Join the future of API security with a company founded by serial innovators reshaping the software industry. Visionaries Jyoti Bansal and Sanjay Nagaraj, creators of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B), established Traceable with a bold ambition: to become the global leader in API security.
We're experiencing explosive growth, tripling revenue and scaling rapidly to empower enterprises facing evolving API threats. This success is fueled by a winning strategy: unwavering customer obsession, relentless product innovation, and strategic partnerships all backed by the entrepreneurial expertise behind past industry-defining success. Our cutting-edge solution makes API security manageable for businesses across the globe, ensuring APIs drive growth, not risk.
Join this winning team and make your mark!
About the Role
We are looking for a lead backend engineer with a strong understanding of Java, microservices, and distributed systems. You should be self-motivated and should be able to lead a small team. We value developers who are eager to take on challenging tasks, can iterate quickly and incorporate feedback while ensuring the code quality is not sacrificed at any cost.
Role Responsibilities:
- You would design and build highly scalable & available back-end system
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers to create high-performing team
- Motivating the team and members to achieve and do more
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science
- 7-10 years of work experience
- Must have worked on Java, GRPC based microservices architecture with a modern tech stack and development environment
- Must have good knowledge/experience on Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka/Kafka Streams
- Must have worked extensively on low level API design and have a good understanding of basic design principles
- Strong experience in building, designing and scaling high performance solutions and products
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to listen effectively
- Must have experience in leading and managing team
We value diversity and treatment of employees and applicants is based on merit, talent and qualification. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We believe the key to success is bringing together unique perspectives and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Direct applicants only. Recruiting agencies: Please do not email or call our team. We are not accepting agency candidates.
We believe the key to success is bringing together unique perspectives and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
For qualified US: applicants with criminal histories, consideration will be consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
