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.
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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.
About The Job
Kolide’s mission can only be achieved with good ground truth, the practice of ethically collecting pertinent information, through direct observation. Ground truth is the foundational aspect of Kolide’s product.
Our Device Agent team is directly responsible for collecting ground truth on Linux, Mac, and Windows devices. We accomplish this by working on Kolide’s agent (written in Go), or directly contributing to osquery (written in Objective C and C++). This often involves researching native APIs (or reverse engineering private APIs) to allow the agent to collect the data needed to further Kolide’s detection goals.
Most importantly, your time is your own. Kolide’s agent engineering team has a single 1 hour meeting during the week to coordinate on engineering work. The Kolide team has two additional meetings each week, so we get some face time and stay aware of new customers and exciting development. That’s it.
Agents are complicated, and Agent Engineers are also responsible for ensuring they are good citizens on the devices they inhabit and are easy for our customers to install and manage. This includes auto-updating, native installation, code signing, uninstallation, persistence, and managing its overall performance. Here are some example projects that Kolide employees completed recently and are representative of the work:
- Write tools to automate OS package generation for our agent
- Research Linux disk encryption, and create tables to expose that state to osquery
- Improve the reliability of agent’s auto update capability
- Create a multipurpose library to convert complex data to EAV structure.
- Write a type-safe layer to allow interfacing osquery to the generalized WMI query interface
- Create a set of packages to facility remote collection of debugging information
While you will be working independently on projects, you won’t be on your own. As you make promising progress on a goal, other team members will be ready to assist you at your request. It’s rare in practice that a major new data collection initiative or major agent feature is driven from conception all the way to production without the assistance of others.
About You
We are looking for Endpoint Engineers with at least 3 years of general software development or SRE experience. You will be writing code primarily in Go, basic proficiency is required. There is additional work in C++ and Ruby. Some work is based in osquery, familiarity with it is a plus, but not required.
You could be a self-taught high-school graduate, or you could hold a masters in Computer Science and Engineering. It doesn’t matter, as long as you meet the criteria.
You should have some experience using or administrating macOS, Windows, and Linux-based operating systems, and consider yourself a specialist in at least one of them. This could mean you have used Linux casually as your daily driver, but you have a lot of experience with the underpinnings of Windows as a developer or an administrator. We don’t expect specialist knowledge across every platform.
You should be familiar 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 are a good writer who can write prose with empathy and tolerance for less technical people. Kolide is a product that interacts directly with our customers' end-users via Slack; it helps when our engineers can contribute to the writing process.
You are naturally curious and relentless in finding the answers you seek. While this is a technical role that requires technical proficiency, we’ve found in practice that people with this personality will be driven to acquire any skills needed to get to the truth.
We are a US & Canada based remote team.
Canada based roles: salary range is $85,000-$147,000 CAD.
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
- 💸 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 submit an application on this website.
Cover letters are welcome. 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 2-3 one-hour 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 short 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.
