Software Engineering, Coalition
Underwriting
Cyber insurance and security for businesses
Be an early applicant
Cyber insurance and security for businesses
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the unprotected from technology failures and cyber-attacks, helping manage risk online so they can focus on growth.
Role
Who you are
- Computer Science or Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, with 0-2+ years of blended internship and/or professional development experience
- Experience writing code in modern programming language, preferably Python or Golang
- Knowledge of Distributed Systems
- Knowledge of Microservices
- Knowledge of AWS, GCP or any public cloud
- Knowledge of Observability
- Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Insurance/Underwriting domain experience
- Terraform, Datadog
- Experience writing technical designs
- Knowledge of AI/ML and Large Language Models (LLM)
What the job involves
- The underwriting platform team at Coalition is responsible for building and maintaining systems that integrate cutting-edge security data, insurance contract information, and additional proprietary data sources to assess cyber risk.
- In this role, you’ll be writing backend services and assisting in designing systems that apply a combination of business rules, statistical models, and machine learning models to determine secondary review decisioning, manage the underwriter workflow and monitor underwriting outcomes.
- Our platform comprises services written in Python and Go. We prioritize selecting the most suitable tools for each task and make pragmatic decisions to scale and decouple systems as we expand. You'll work on an extremely cross-functional team that collaborates closely both internally and externally with the larger engineering organization
- Writing scalable and clean code, write unit and integration tests, ship with high quality and confidence
- Create alerts, monitors and dashboards to ensure operational stability and observability
- Lead small projects independently or work with a team of engineers for medium-large projects, collaborating with stakeholders
Our take
The cybersecurity industry has been going through a record-breaking period of investment. This trend has emerged as more companies move to cloud-based networks following the increase of out-of-office work, thus increasing the risk of cyber attacks. However, many cutting-edge cyber defences are too expensive for many companies.
Coalition’s joint offering of cyber security tools, a risk management platform, and cyber insurance allows companies to manage the ever-present risk of cyber threats.
The company has made a strong start since its 2017 launch, raising nearly $800 million in funding. There are a number of other fast-growth startups in the cybersecurity space, including Wiz and Orca Security, but Coalition’s shrewd insurance-based model is what sets it apart from the competition. The company has set out on a path toward global expansion, branching out from the US and Canadian markets to bring its solutions to the UK, whilst also acquiring smaller competitors like JUMBO.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2022
$250m
SERIES F
Sep 2021
$205m
SERIES E
Total funding: $770m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Stock option plan
- Open vacation days
- Flexible working hours
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Character - We are never too big to do the small things that need to be done. We balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task
- Humility - We aren’t afraid to ask questions, including simple ones like: can we do this better?
- Responsibility - We are building an environment of personal and professional development, in which an individual takes responsibility and shares ownership
- Purpose - The more you have to play for, the better you play. We are all here to build something we believe in and to make a company that will last
- Authenticity - We refuse to be distracted by the clamor of competitors or the tired industry in which we operate. We have the courage to follow our heart and intuition
- Diversity - The strength of the wolf is the pack. We’ve built an environment where all team members can thrive irrespective of their ideas, creed, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other arbitrary subdivision
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Joshua Motta
(CEO)After studying at the University of Chicago, Joshua worked at Goldman Sachs for a year before moving to Private Equity at Francisco Partners, and working as an IGNIA Partners Investor. He left his role at Cloudflare to co-found Coalition in March 2017.
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