Senior Software Engineer, Java | Vulnerability

NinjaOne

7d•$140,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role on one of NinjaOne's newest and fastest-growing product lines. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts. We create and deliver mission critical services to enable NinjaOne’s customers to administer, protect and maintain millions of endpoints and servers. You will have the opportunity to design and develop high-availability mission critical software systems that support our worldwide operations. Location - We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, ME, NC, NJ, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. We have physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.

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.
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.
Expert knowledge of quality testing practices.

Nice To Haves

Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a stand out candidate.
Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis will make you a stand-out.

Responsibilities

Design and scale the backend services that power continuous vulnerability detection, CVE correlation, and remediation workflows across millions of endpoints.
Work at the intersection of security data, high-throughput distributed systems, and AI-assisted risk prioritization.
Partner closely with product and detection teams to reduce customers' mean time to remediate.
Design and develop high-availability mission critical software systems that support our worldwide operations.
Use Java and Kotlin 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.
Commit code and ship products, implementing design patterns and working on enterprise level software challenges in a startup environment.
Build software of scale that runs on millions and millions of endpoints.
Other duties as needed.