Junior Software Developer - Search

About us:

Kestreldale Security runs a 24/7 security operations centre that monitors endpoints, firewalls and cloud accounts for mid-sized companies. Identity and access management projects, mostly Okta and Entra ID rollouts, have been part of the business since 2006. Training budget covers one SANS course or equivalent per year.

About the role:

Kestreldale Security is hiring for the Junior Software Developer - Search role on our Core Services team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Our headquarters is in Riyadh, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday.

Day to day:

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green

What we're looking for:

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Bonus points:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Why work with us:

Salary: $1,000 - $1,300/month

• Paid time off
• Annual rate review
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Kestreldale Security LLC.