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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Snyk's Core R&d Engineering
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Quality, Python (Programming Language), Software Systems, TypeScript, Agentic-AI, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Build Tools
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-snyk-io-10744668

## About the Role

* At least 7 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer.
 * Expertise in large-scale software systems design and a solid grounding in fundamental computer science concepts.
 * Proficiency in at least one of Snyk's core languages: Go, TypeScript, or Python.
 * Experience building highly reliable, scalable systems, whether microservice back-ends, web UIs, or platform automation tools.
 * A strong commitment to code quality and to giving and receiving direct feedback.
 * Clear, effective communication and comfort working through ambiguity.
 * Nice to have: experience on early-stage products and direct customer problem-solving, comfort with a hybrid, in-person team schedule, and a sense of humor about a mission you still take seriously.

## Description

Job Summary: Snyk's Core R&D organization builds the infrastructure, platform, and shared systems that every product team at Snyk depends on. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll take on complex, ambiguous problems end to end: designing the solution, building it, and owning it in production. This is a role for someone who wants real technical ownership and a direct hand in mentoring the engineers around them, at a company where AI agents are rewriting how software gets built and security has to keep pace.

About the Team: You'll join one of Snyk's Core R&D engineering teams, the group responsible for the shared infrastructure and platform capabilities that power Snyk's products. The team partners closely with product engineering across the company, and reports up through R&D engineering leadership.

What You'll Do:

 * Lead key efforts from idea to execution, demonstrating end to end ownership of complex technical problems.
 * Analyze, design, and implement high-quality, well-tested solutions to problems with real ambiguity.
 * Mentor and coach junior engineers, helping grow the next generation of engineering talent at Snyk.
 * Build systems with a long-term mindset: strong design, robust testing, and scalability from day one.
 * Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure the infrastructure you build is adopted broadly and used consistently.
 * Resolve critical bugs and customer support escalations to protect a high-quality user experience.