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Safe Software is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Form team. As a Senior Software Developer, you will drive scalable, maintainable solutions; shape cross-team architecture and practices; and coach and empower other developers. This role has a strong security focus: hardening FME Form against memory-safety and dependency risk, and raising the security bar of the codebase and the team that works in it.\nAbout The Team\nAs part of the FME Form product group, you'll join a group of collaborative development teams composed of team leaders, developers, quality analysts, and student interns who work together as a team and alongside product managers and user experience designers, on complex technical projects that provide direct value to our users.\nAs a part of this close-knit and diverse team, you will work together with internal stakeholders to maintain and extend our flagship FME Form products that delight customers and empower them to author dataflows that can be shared, reused, and integrated with the FME Platform.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nAs a Senior Software Developer, you will:\nHarden all areas of FME Form to be security sensitive. For example, eliminating classes of memory-safety defects rather than individual bugs\n\nBuild and own the tooling that finds problems early: fuzzing harnesses, sanitizer and static analysis coverage, and compiler/runtime hardening in our build pipeline\n\nDrive, advocate and review threat modeling on shipped and upcoming features, and triage incoming vulnerability reports: assessing severity, scoping impact, and driving remediation\n\nArchitect and guide the implementation of complex, high-impact product features and systems\n\nLead cross-team technical initiatives, collaborating across departments to align on solutions and priorities\n\nProvide technical mentorship and coach to developers across all levels, promoting secure-coding skill development and knowledge sharing\n\nChampion best practices in software architecture, testing, security, and performance\n\nIdentify and lead efforts to address technical debt, system reliability, and process improvements\n\nRepresent technical and security perspectives in product planning, working closely with Product Management and UX\n\nProvide expert input during code and design reviews, ensuring high quality and maintainability\n\nContribute to the evolution of Safe's development culture, standards, and tooling strategy\n\nQualifications, Skills, and Competencies\nSafers come from a variety of backgrounds with a diversity in skills and knowledge. That said, we find that those who are most successful in this role have experience with the following areas.\nWhat We're Looking For:\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field\n\nExperience: 7+ years of professional software development experience, including technical leadership of complex projects and systems\n\nTechnical Expertise: Advanced proficiency in C++ for core system development; Python skills specifically for automation and scripting; architectural design, debugging, and optimization in large, complex codebases. Threat modeling (e.g. STRIDE and/or DREAD) on shipped features, and CVSS v4.0 scoring\n\nProduct Security: Demonstrated ownership of security-relevant code and the tooling that finds them: fuzzing, sanitizers, static analysis, SAST/DAST, and hardening; ability to triage and communicate vulnerability severity (CVSS, CWE)\n\nExperience with A.I. coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot)\n\nInfluential communicator and mentor; able to align teams, foster collaboration, and lead through change\n\nComfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and with making pragmatic risk tradeoffs\n\nStrategic thinker with a systems-level perspective; proactive in identifying opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement; skilled at balancing technical depth with business context\n\nNice to Have:\nSBOM generation and third-party vulnerability management at scale\n\nFamiliarity with industry frameworks and references such as OWASP and MITRE\n\nRelevant certifications (e.g. OSED, OSCE, GXPN, SANS SEC661/SEC760, CSSLP)\n\nFamiliarity with Safe Software's core technology areas or similar technical domains\n\nExperience with different operating systems (e.g. macOS, Linux)\n\nExperience building desktop applications using the Qt Framework, specifically Qt Widgets\n\nWhat You Can Expect\nWhen you choose a career with Safe Software, you're also choosing…\nMeaningful Work: Make a profound impact across our business, workplace and data integration product.\n\nA Supportive Environment: Feel empowered to share your ideas and implement them with high autonomy and team support.\n\nSocial Responsibility: Become part of a team that finds meaningful ways to give back. Take paid time off to volunteer for one of our Safe-organized opportunities that align with our core community initiatives.\n\nLearning & Career Development: We believe in your continuous learning and growth. Take advantage of an annual learning budget and training programs paid for by Safe.\n\nFlexible Working Hours: Flexible and remote-friendly work arrangements to fit your lifestyle. Work when you want, and how you want to.\n\nWork-Life Balance: There's no place for burnout at Safe. Maintain a healthy balance of your personal and work life without splitting yourself in two. Enjoy 3 weeks of vacation to recharge, plus an additional paid 6 seasonal days off per year.\n\nHealth & Wellness: Extended health, dental, health or lifestyle spending, and counseling benefits from day 1. That's right, no waiting period.\n\nFamily is important: We are dedicated to supporting our employees through parenthood and offer a Parental Leave Top-Up Program for new parents through childbirth or adoption.\n\nShared Success: Share in Safe's success with our bi-annual profit sharing and RRSP/TFSA matching program.\n\nAn Accessible Commute: Regardless of your commute method, we're located close to public transit, and provide complimentary parking and bike storage for our team!\n\nAbout Safe Software\nSafe Software transforms organizations with FME, the only All-Data Any-AI Enterprise Integration Platform connecting all your data, anywhere, at any velocity.\nWith over 30 years of expertise and 25,000+ enterprise customers across 125+ countries, we simplify your data journey, wherever it leads.\nFounded in 1993, Safe is headquartered in Surrey, BC with over 300 team members and counting. We’re always looking for talented individuals with diverse backgrounds who are determined to learn and grow. Are you ready to join the team?\nOur Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nSafe Software is an equal opportunity employer and we truly believe that innovation and strength begin with diversity and inclusion.\nWe welcome all candidates regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, ability, disability, national or ethnic origin, political belief, religion, or family status.\nShould you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please contact .\nNotice Regarding Use of Automated Tools in Hiring\nAt Safe Software, we use automated tools to help us process applications and identify qualified candidates. These tools may assist in screening resumes and summarizing interview content based on the information you provide. This helps our team review applications efficiently while ensuring every candidate is considered based on the requirements of the role.\nPlease be assured that the final hiring decision is always made by a member of our team. For more information on how we protect your privacy, please see our policy. 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