Cloud Observability and Performance Engineer, Halcyon
$150-185k
+ Equity and Bonus (Target: 10%)
Cybersecurity tools to protect against ransomware
Open for applications
Cybersecurity tools to protect against ransomware
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-185k
+ Equity and Bonus (Target: 10%)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Halcyon's mission is to defeat ransomware.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional work experience in observability, site reliability, or cloud performance roles
- Strong experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana,
- ELK, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch)
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native services (e.g.,
- ECS, EKS, Lambda)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Solid knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, and performance debugging
- Proficiency in Python, Scala, or other language(s) for tooling and automation
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and version
- Control (Git)
Desirable
- Experience with endpoint security platforms or agent-based systems
- Familiarity with SIEM, security analytics, or cloud threat detection pipelines
- Background in networking performance, TLS handshake optimization, or load balancing
- Experience with SLA/SLO-driven operational excellence in high-scale environments
- Knowledge of additional languages, such as Go
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Cloud Observability and Performance Engineer to join our Chaos Cloud Engineering team
- In this role, you will design and implement observability, monitoring, and performance strategies for cloud-hosted microservices that manage and orchestrate endpoint security agents at scale
- This position is critical to ensuring the reliability, visibility, and performance optimization of our backend systems that power cloud-based security operations for millions of endpoints worldwide
- You'll design, build, and maintain end-to-end observability for distributed cloud services
- (telemetry, logging, tracing, alerting)
- Develop and optimize metrics pipelines and dashboards (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana,
- OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
- Ensure high performance, availability, and scalability of agent management systems in
- Production
- Collaborate with development, SRE, and security teams to troubleshoot production
- Issues using observability tooling
- Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and performance benchmarks for cloud components
- And services
- Instrument code and services to expose business-relevant metrics and latency
- Bottlenecks
- Automate performance regression testing and anomaly detection
- Support proactive incident detection and real-time monitoring strategies across multi-cloud environments
- Provide root cause analysis and performance tuning recommendations
Our take
As cyber attacks become increasingly complex, especially in the mode of ransomware, companies such as Halcyon are becoming an ever more important weapon in the fight for cybersecurity. Though only formed in 2021, its founders have extensive experience as researchers at cybersecurity unicorn Cylance, amongst other notable companies in the sector.
Halcyon’s product stands out from similar - and abundant - offerings thanks to its melding of multi-proprietary advanced prevention engines and AI models designed specifically to seek out and destroy ransomware threats. It's the flexibility and reactivity of these two multi-tiered facets that have made Halcyon a trusted partner for companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list.
With significant funding behind it, Halcyon will ramp up the development of its platform's features and continue expanding its customer base.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$100m
SERIES C
Dec 2023
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $204m
Company benefits
- A Remote Native Global Team - As a remote first, completely distributed team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we'll work a plan to meet your needs.
- Health & Wellness - We offer comprehensive health benefits to meet you and your family’s needs, including 100% covered Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- Competitive Compensation Packages - We offer competitive compensation packages with equity, depending on position, along with a generously matched retirement plan, unlimited PTO, paid sick time and holidays
- Future Planning & Time Off - We offer paid time off to take care of yourself! Relax and recharge on us. We also include paid parental leave, short & long term disability insurance, life insurance and more
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Jon Miller
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously CEO and Founder at Boldend, Advisory Board member at Cylance, Vice President at Accuvant LABS, Managing Consultant at IBM.
Ryan Smith
(CTO & Co-Founder)Currently Owner at Hustle Labs. Previously Chief Research Officer at Boldend, Advisory Board Member at Cylance.
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