Senior Backend Developer/SRE – Security Engineering

Location: Work is what you do, not where you go. For this role, we are open to remote work and can hire anywhere in the United States or Canada.

About The Opportunity

Dayforce is looking for a Senior Backend Developer, with a security and site reliability mindset, to be part of our Core Security platform team. Reporting to the Development Manager, the Senior Developer/SRE will have prior experience with observability and ensuring rum times. This role will be 70-80% development; while 20-30% will be focused on site reliability efforts.

The selected candidate is responsible for designing and implementing new products and ifeatures as well as enhancing existing solutions, as it relates to our global people platform, Dayforce. In ensuring our state-of-the-art products set new benchmarks in scalability, availability, and reliability. We embrace the SRE engagement model to deliver exceptional performance.

The Senior Backend Developer/SRE will collaborate with an energetic team of Developers, Test Engineers, Technical Product Managers and Technical Writers throughout the development process to ensure the product is functionally complete, well-engineered and meets the reliability requirements. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing innovator in a technically challenging and rewarding role.

As a member of our team, you'll help build and maintain a suite of internal tools that proactively alert, report, and autonomously remediate Dayforce platform environments, ensuring seamless service. We're committed to proactive solutions, crafting robust processes, empowering our talented developers with the latest technology, and engineering innovative remedies to prevent issues from recurring.

Our Security Engineering team enables our Dayforce product technical success by building performant, scalable and secure core components, frameworks, and customer-facing technical features, and by providing build processes, tools and expertise to improve security posture of the company and enhance developer productivity. The team also enhances the maintainability and supportability of the Dayforce platform by building environment management and operational management applications and tools.

If you are a technology enthusiast, have passion for creating great secure software, want to see your creation make an impact, and possess one or more of the following qualifications, we want to talk to you. 

What You’ll Get To Do

Support the platform team with cybersecurity effortsAnalyze, design, prototype, program, test, troubleshoot and support - the complete software lifecycle in your hands!Envision and deliver new features and frameworks by working, as part of a high-performing scrum team, with clients, prospects, implementation partners, and Dayforce personnelBuild out end-to-end solutions to that provide enhanced observability or automatically remediate the most complex issues.Seek out, propose and execute on projects to improve Dayforce’s reliability, SRE processes and reduce day-to-day toil.Provide oversight to development teams to ensure that features are built with reliability in mind.Create and enhance a scalable, performant and secure SaaS enterprise applicationAssess risks and impacts on the existing system as new functionality is added

Skills And Experience We Value

7 or more years working experience with C# and .NET Framework3 or more years’ experience with cyber security and/or cloudExtensive experience in enterprise software development, platform, or SAASProficiency with TSQL and relational database systemsExperience building one or more architectural and low-level components such as background processing components, build and deployment systems, security, identity management, logging, APIs, interfaces, and messaging componentsExperience with Incident Management best practices.Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.Experience implementing APM and Observability platforms and integrating them into day-to-day operations.

What Would Make You Really Stand Out

Experience solving security and software vulnerabilitiesExperience with information security concepts, such as Identity and Access Management, Application security, data security, and cross site scriptingSession managementPrivacy and compliance experienceAwareness of NIST cybersecurity frameworksKnowledge of containerization and Kubernetes is considered an asset

Key Skills

• Backend
• SQL
• C#
• .NET Framework