Staff Backend Engineer, SecurityScorecard
$120-145k
OTE
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Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
Posted today
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$120-145k
OTE
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SecurityScorecard's mission is to make the world a safer place by transforming the way organizations understand, mitigate, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.
Role
Who you are
- Programming & Functional Data Processing: Scala (with Cats), Apache Spark (or equivalent distributed processing framework)
- Database Technologies: PostgreSQL
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Containerization & Deployment: Docker
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- 8+ years of experience in the Data Engineering space
- Strong proficiency with working in agile environments (ideally Scrum), collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product)
- Strong proficiency in functional programming with Scala(with cats), Spark, Airflow, Hive, Redis for building batch data processing pipelines, and with Kafka for real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures
- Expertise with analytical databases (ClickHouse preferred), relational databases (PostgreSQL) and large-scale data systems with ETL processes (Apache Spark); experience with NoSQL distributed databases (Cassandra/ScyllaDB)
- Expertise with Jenkins for CI/CD, Terraform, and using Docker for containerization. Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS/SNS etc.) for cloud-based application deployment and management
- Experience with a variety of data (structured/unstructured), data formats (flat files, XML, JSON, relational, parquet)
- Strong focus on ensuring code quality and reliability through unit and integration tests, and continuous improvement of the codebase
- Proficiency with version control tools, particularly Git, for collaborative development and code management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions clearly
What the job involves
- Join our dynamic Technology team as part of one of our most critical squads. Our team emphasis is collaboration and shared responsibilities, you will be hands-on involved in the entire Software Development Life Cycle. Our team is growing and so will you!
- We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer who thrives on building commercial products and plays a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications
- You will lead projects from inception to delivery, collaborating with Product Managers, and UX Designers to define requirements, implement solutions, and ensure ongoing success post-deployment
- You will focus on contributing technical insights to enhance the system's performance, stability, and user experience
- You will be working in the Data Engineering space, and with building and maintaining scalable and high-performance backend systems, and big data pipelines
- You will design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with external services
- Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle, from design and development to deployment and maintenance
- Follow clean code principles, using best practices to write secure, testable, and well-documented software
- Work closely with global teams, including engineers, product managers, and UX designers, to build a stable, high-performance platform
- Implement comprehensive testing and performance tuning to ensure system stability and uptime
- Design complex backend systems that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable
- Own end-to-end projects across teams, understanding and contributing to all aspects (infrastructure, application tiers, and data tiers)
- Write clean, maintainable code that adheres to best practices in readability, design patterns, reusability, and testing. Review code, ensure quality and maintainability
- Define and uphold engineering best practices and coding standards through setting technical direction, documentation, and maintaining standards across projects
- Continuously monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements or refactors
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers. Share knowledge through documentation, talks, and pairing
Our take
Organizations understand the value of data and the value of business partnerships that will help them leverage it. However, involving more companies increases the risk of vulnerabilities, and therefore costly data breaches. SecurityScorecard is a cloud-based enterprise SaaS solution that helps organizations assess and manage cybersecurity risks, offering analyses of potential partner companies using A-F security ratings.
SecurityScorecard looms over its competitors as it covers millions of companies, offering near-instant cybersecurity analyses and an array of capabilities. It has a large, global, and big-name customer base, including 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 9 of the top 10 banking institutions, and it is likely to go public in the next few years.
It has both developed and consolidated an impressive lead in a sector that will continue growing and rewarding cutting-edge security solutions. It looks set to remain an industry leader with demonstrable, accessible, and highly attractive customer offerings. In 2024, this included a supply chain cyber risk management platform - MAX - which is driving record revenue.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2021
$180m
SERIES E
Jun 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $294.4m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave / 4 weeks paid paternity leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K
- $3k annual education stipend per employee
- Full access to our learning platform and company professional development events
- Up to $10K referral bonus
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Aleksandr Yampolskiy
(CEO)Worked at Oracle and Goldman Sachs, before serving for 2 years as CISO of Gilt Group. Founded NYC Technology Startup, Meetup, in 2012 and then worked as CTO of Cinchcast.
Sam Kassoumeh
(COO)Progressed from Technology Compliance Manager to Head of Security and Compliance at Gilt Groupe within 4 years, and worked as Cyber Security Advisor for Billy.
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