Senior Software Engineer, Java | Vulnerability

About the role

NinjaOne's Vulnerability Management team is building the real-time, AI-driven engine that helps IT teams find and fix security exposures in minutes instead of days, without slowing down the endpoints it protects. As a Senior Java Backend Engineer, you'll design and scale the backend services that power continuous vulnerability detection, CVE correlation, and remediation workflows across millions of endpoints. You'll work at the intersection of security data, high-throughput distributed systems, and AI-assisted risk prioritization, partnering closely with product and detection teams to reduce customers' mean time to remediate.

Responsibilities

• Java and Kotlin Software Development– use your expertise to contribute to the development of large-scale software applications.
• Make quality an invariant part of your work and help your fellow engineers continue to meet our quality-first standards.
• Committing Code and Shipping Products – you will be one of our most trusted engineers committing code.
• Responsible for implementing design patterns and working on enterprise level software challenges, in a startup environment.
• Impact product more hands on than at other companies, building software of scale that runs on millions and millions of endpoints.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years experience in Java software development for product applications or equivalent.
• Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a stand out candidate.
• 4+ years experience working with highly scalable software systems.
• Experience working on systems at scale and finding solutions to scale systems.
• Working knowledge of a breadth of OOP design principles.
• Expertise in scaling data structures and object-oriented design.
• Knowledge of API best practices and REST service development using frameworks like Jersey or Spring.
• Relational Database design and development experience.
• Experience creating both client and server-side development, for responsive messaging.
• Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis will make you a stand-out.
• Expert knowledge of quality testing practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years experience in Java software development for product applications or equivalent.
• Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a stand out candidate.
• 4+ years experience working with highly scalable software systems.
• Experience working on systems at scale and finding solutions to scale systems.
• Working knowledge of a breadth of OOP design principles.
• Expertise in scaling data structures and object-oriented design.
• Knowledge of API best practices and REST service development using frameworks like Jersey or Spring.
• Relational Database design and development experience.
• Experience creating both client and server-side development, for responsive messaging.
• Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis will make you a stand-out.
• Expert knowledge of quality testing practices.

Skills

• Java
• Kotlin
• High-throughput distributed systems
• AI-assisted risk prioritization
• Enterprise-level software challenges
• Quality testing practices

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k) plan
• Life insurance coverage
• PTO

Pay

• Base salary hiring range: $140,000 to $200,000 per year

Schedule

• Hybrid remote