API Engineer - #449205

At Authentic8, we empower organizations to redefine how digital investigations are conducted in an increasingly complex online world. With Silo for Research, our industry-leading solution, we enable secure and anonymous investigations across the surface, deep, and dark web—helping national security, defense, law enforcement, and enterprises uncover critical insights while staying protected.

Designed from the ground up with zero-trust principles and built on globally scaled infrastructure, Silo for Research addresses today's toughest cybersecurity challenges, allowing investigators to work smarter, faster, and safer. Trusted by more than 700 customers worldwide, our platform transforms how intelligence work is done.

Join us, and be part of a mission to protect and empower those who safeguard our world. From our collaborative teams to our cutting-edge technology, we’re not just building solutions—we’re shaping the future of digital investigations.

We have an immediate opening for a Web Services (APIs) Engineer. Ideal candidate has experience with RESTful APIs, service-oriented design patterns and has built customer facing high availability services with Python and or Node JS in their past professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our customer facing RESTful API which enables customers to sync user, pull logs and manage their secure storage
• Build integration endpoints for other product needs, such as our web client
• Create federated authentication workflows, including our current SAML endpoints
  
  
  

Skills:

• Proficiency with Python
• Experience in C/C++
• Mastery of RESTful API design patterns
• Advanced understanding of HTTP transactions, headers, and protocols
• Experience with service based architecture
• Must be proficient with JIRA, Git, NPM, Bash, OpenSSL
• Proven ability to flex between rapid prototyping and production-quality code
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Collaborative attitude; able to work with Eng, QA, Ops and PM
  
  
  

Highly Desirable

• FastAPI experience
• Background/Strong Interest in cyber security
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• BS in Software Engineering or equivalent
• 4-6 years of professional software engineering experience minimum
  
  
  

Salary Range

• 115,000 - 140,000 CAD plus bonus
  
  
  

Authentic8 Core Values & Principles:

Integrity: We apply our best efforts. We are honest with and accountable to others.

Mission-Focused: We clearly define and communicate our goals and do not stray in the pursuit of our objective.

Respect: We value and respect the ideas and experience our diverse backgrounds bring us. Positive consideration of differing viewpoints makes us stronger.

We are collaborative: We recognize the best work is the product of teams. We must each be reliable and expect to rely on others.

We are transparent: By operating with common information and understanding we ensure that we are aligned.

We find innovative solutions: We seek innovative solutions not as a buzzword but as a means to solve difficult problems with zeal, efficiency and quality.

We take ownership: We are responsible for our actions, our reputation and our business.

Authentic8 offers flexible time off, competitive benefits, and bonus.

It is the policy of Authentic8 to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.