Our Mission (a poem)
We solve security's unsolvable problems.
Shipping software that activates a super power they've always had—their people.
Harnessing their team’s potential with empathy and respect for the needs of all stakeholders.
Demonstrating to the world that human beings aren't security's weakest link–they're its greatest asset.
We all have important information we need to manage, and protecting it should be easy. Over 100,000 businesses and millions of people log in to 1Password to unlock smart, simple access to everything they care about. Our vision is to create a safer, simpler digital future for everyone, and our culture values simplicity, honesty and a human-centric approach to solving problems. Come help us unlock peace of mind so everyone can stay safer online.
Background
Kolide (by 1Password) is building device trust software for companies that value
Honest Security. With over 450 customers and a novel approach to solving security and compliance concerns, Kolide is growing quickly and poised to take an industry-leading role in the coming years. To prepare, we are looking to responsibly grow our team in order to increase our diverse set of skills and perspectives. We are part of 1Password, a remote first company, and you can work from anywhere in the US or Canada as long as you can commit to our business hours of 9am - 5pm Eastern.
About The Job
Kolide is looking for a Senior Developer (Rails) to be the inaugural member of our Internal Tools team. While Kolide employs other programming languages for our endpoint agent— our device server, customer-facing APIs, and customer-facing UI, are all proudly written in a single majestic monolithic Rails 7 codebase.
The Senior Developer for the Internal Tools team will enable our internal customers (Customer Success, Billing, Marketing, Sales, and all the other engineering teams) to work more efficiently. You will assist on the front lines, solving issues small and large as they pop up across our customer base, as well as developing new internal tools that everyone can use to self-service common needs in the future. While you’ll be working independently, you’ll never be alone and without help: none of our teams operate in isolation. Instead, your teammates are available to collaborate with at any stage of the process and in a manner that best suits your individual needs.
Some recent problems that have been solved by our Rails team include:
- Adding additional query filtering to new API endpoints to pull the authentication status of specific devices, rather than needing to pull the entirety of the organization
- Identifying and resolving a complex bug caused by the addition of a new authentication status, which had resulted in users receiving notifications immediately rather than in accordance with the configured grace period
- Building new self-service functionality into the admin UI that allowed for users to programmatically adjust an Authentication Policy Rule in Okta via API
- Exposing information from numerous third party systems in a central location inside our staff tools to save people’s time.
- Cross-evaluating logs from a customer endpoint, GCP, and Kolide’s proprietary systems to determine the cause of a problem a VIP user was experiencing in device verification during authentication.
- Building a status monitoring system for our data ingestion and authentication event system so that we can quickly evaluate new software releases have not caused problems for our users before they notice them.
Additionally, Kolide embraces the simplicity of server-side rendering and heavily leverages the new Hotwire library to add the reactivity of modern webapps. We don’t have any features that require React or similar frameworks.
Much of the Rails work involves processing, augmenting, and visualizing data that we receive from endpoints. As a result, you will be collaborating closely with endpoint engineers as well as other Rails developers.
We love Rails and often are the first adopters of new libraries and frameworks in that ecosystem. As an early adopter of these technologies, you’ll have opportunities at Kolide to directly contribute to these open source projects in meaningful ways.
About You
We are looking for candidates who have at least 5 years experience building SaaS products in Ruby on Rails. You should be comfortable with engineering in the entire stack including writing HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a good understanding of HTTP.
You should like writing, reading, and working with SQL. All of the queries we send to the endpoint are written in SQLite and understanding concepts like CTEs, casting, and aggregations will help you decipher the more complex queries we send down to customer devices.
You have some affinity for Security and IT. It’s even better if you’ve held an IT support or end-user facing security role. Much of our work involves taking complex security and endpoint concepts and distilling them down into words and visuals end-users can understand.
You should have curiosity and patience. The problems you will be solving are often poorly defined and you will need to do research and ask questions. You should enjoy digging into a problem and getting satisfaction once you figure it out.
You are a good writer who can write prose with empathy and have tolerance for less technical people. As a product that interacts directly with our customers' end-users, it helps when our engineers can contribute to the documentation process.
You are able to drive projects to completion, to communicate complex situations in a way that can be understood by our Support team and re-communicated back out to customers, and are proactive about finding the right answer.
You have experience building apps that scale. At Kolide, this means citing relevant prior experience when a fellow engineer’s pull request might be doing something dangerous like adding an index that might lock a table, or introducing a N+1 query in a high throughput request path. When things get slow in production, you know a few common places to look to understand where a bottleneck may be occuring.
You could be a self-taught high-school graduate, or you could hold a masters in Computer Science and Engineering. It doesn’t matter to us, as long as you meet the criteria.
What we offer
We believe in working hard, and resting hard. We’re always looking for new ways to support our team members, but here’s a glance at what we currently offer:
Health and wellbeing
👶 Maternity and parental leave
👟 Wellness spending account
🏝 Generous PTO policy
💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
🧠 Wellness Coach membership
🩺 Comprehensive health coverage
Growth and future
📈 Employee stock option program for all full time employees
💸 401k retirement matching program
💡 Training budget, 1Password University access, and learning sessions
🔑 Free 1Password account (and friends and family discount!)
Flexibility and community
🤝 Paid volunteer days
🌎 Employee-led DEI&B programs and ERGs
🏠 Fully remote environment
🏆 Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
You belong here.
1Password is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that is built on trust, support and respect. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. Be yourself, find your people and share the things you love.
Accommodation is available upon request at any point during our recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at nextbit@agilebits.com and we’ll work to meet your needs.
Remote work is a part of our DNA. Given that our company was founded remotely in 2005, we can safely say we're experts at building remote culture. That said, remote work at 1Password does mean working from your home country. If you've got questions or concerns about this your Talent Partner would be happy to address them with you.
Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, publicly available social media, credit history, or other information, as permitted by local law.
How To Apply
Please apply on this website.
Submit your resume through the link provided. Cover letters are optional. The best applications include specific examples of things you’ve done in the past that translate well to the type of work you’ll do at Kolide.
If your application is well received, we’ll invite you to the interview stage, which will include (but is not limited to) a preliminary call, and 1-2 interviews with your future colleagues, and a final interview with the CEO. If you are applying for a technical role, we may have you complete a take home exercise.
The entire process may take up to three weeks, depending on team availability. We appreciate you considering Kolide and are excited to read your application. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to
jobs@kolide.co.