Staff Software Engineer

Greylock Partners — United States · Posted ~6 hours ago

Full-time

Skills

Software engineering System design Technical leadership Cybersecurity Software architecture

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Join an experienced engineering team building innovative cybersecurity solutions. This senior technical role requires strong engineering judgment, adaptability, and the ability to influence architecture and culture.

Highlights

Rare opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, influence engineering direction, and help shape a growing technology organization.

Description

Greylock has a history of investing in category-defining security companies in the enterprise(Palo Alto Networks, Okta, Sumo Logic, Imperva, Skyhigh, Demisto, Sqreen, Abnormal Security, Cato Networks, Censys, Cribl, Obsidian, Opal, and Rubrik). We recently invested in a new cybersecurity startup led by a seasoned team of former engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. This is a rare opportunity to join an experienced team tackling deeply challenging and novel technical problems—this role blends technical expertise, an entrepreneurial mindset, and adaptability. It’s an ideal position for someone aspiring to start their own company in the future but hasn’t yet found the right idea. This role offers a front-row seat to shaping the company’s technology, culture, and long-term success, providing invaluable insights. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to play a key role in building their New York office The ideal candidate has at least 7 years of industry experience, preferably as a full-stack engineer. However, we are equally open to individuals with a spike in front-end or back-end development. The company’s tech stack includes TypeScript, Python, and Go. Since the company is currently in stealth, additional details will be provided to qualified candidates. Stage: Seed Team Size: ~15 Location: New York/San Francisco About Greylock: Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable companies, including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, and Palo Alto Networks. More can be found about us here: https://greylock.com/ About the Greylock Recruiting Team: As full-time, salaried employees of Greylock, we provide free candidate referrals/introductions to active and upcoming investments to help them grow/succeed (as one of the many services we provide). Our recruiting team, combined, has over 125 years of in-house recruiting experience at successful startups through FAANG’s and over 30 years of VC Talent.