Software Engineer, Security Foundations

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub.

All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

Trust is critical to Grammarly’s mission. The Security Foundations team plays a key role in upholding trust with our users, by building and operating critical services and product experiences around Identity, Privacy, Access Control, Secret Management, Fraud and Abuse protection, and other related areas. This demanding challenge requires a talented and dedicated team embedded within the rest of the company. To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Security Foundations team. 

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As a Backend Engineer in the Security Foundations team, you will build and operate services and tools and implement user-facing features in Identity, Privacy, Access Control, Secret Management, Fraud and Abuse protection, and other related areas.

In this role, you will balance protecting our users' security and privacy, and more broadly trust, with enabling delightful and impactful product features. You will also work with product, engineering, and legal teams to understand the requirements and come up with viable solutions and tradeoffs, and deliver related services and product experiences that meet Grammarly's high standards of operational excellence and usability.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has a good grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures. 
• Is a great communicator and active listener.
• Has strong analytical, diagnostics, and troubleshooting skills.
• Has a proven ability to work in a multi-team environment and cross-functional setup.
• Can write correct, concise, readable, and extendable code.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional devel