Senior Director of Engineering, Arkose Labs
Platform
$270-350k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Fraud detection platform
Open for applications
Fraud detection platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$270-350k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
Arkose's mission is to undermine the economic drivers behind fraud, compelling perpetrators to abandon their attacks.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a leader who thrives in high-scale, distributed environments and is passionate about building high-performing engineering teams, improving reliability, and driving operational excellence
- 5+ years of leadership experience in Platform, Infrastructure, SRE, or related fields, including experience managing managers
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in public and private cloud infrastructure
- Proven ability to build, scale, and lead high-performing infrastructure and cloud teams
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and networking, including TCP/IP, TLS, and HTTP
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, such as CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB, ALB, NLB, EKS, Athena, and S3
- Proficiency with Azure services, including Front Door, Event Hub, AKS, App Gateway, and NLB
- Experience working with data pipelines and optimizing data flow architectures
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Workflows and Actions
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Golang or Python)
- Expertise in Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform
- Experience working with modern SaaS-based software stacks
- Strong distributed system design, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
- Collaborative mindset, with a passion for learning, building, and delivering high-quality products
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead and scale our Platform Engineering organization across the United States, Australia, India, and Costa Rica
- This role will oversee three teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, site reliability, and incident response
- As the Senior Director, you will drive the technical vision, strategy, and execution of our platform initiatives including reliability and infrastructure cost and co-own latency and security across our AWS and Azure environments
- You will work closely with Application Engineering leaders to support their teams with infrastructure automation, CI/CD processes, cloud performance, and observability
- Leading people, process and product infrastructure that would solve high reliability, low latency, auto scalability and security
- Managing and coaching Engineering Managers within Platform organization and collaborating with other directors and department leaders
- Aligning with company OKRs and translating them to projects and tasks that will be successfully delivered
- Contributing to the production systems in infra builds, automation, edge/CDN, edge routing, region and geo based routing, load balancers and ingress controllers, designing and building AWS and Azure infrastructure for Arkose services
- Working on our OpenTelemetry-based observability stack to include more signals that can be acted upon
- Improving reliability by identifying and addressing gaps in our architecture, services and tooling
- Building tools, automation and circuit breakers that help Arkose to adapt to changing attack patterns
Our take
Founded in 2017, Arkose Labs is a fintech company providing a platform that helps detect and manage fraud and abuse. The Arkose Labs risk engine picks out behavioural patterns and anomalies to assess the ‘riskiness’ of users, and more friction is applied the more a user seems likely to attempt fraudulent activity.
Internet crimes in the US claim billions from US citizens every year, and there are no signs of this slowing down. Furthermore, as an increasing number of businesses access and process large amounts of personal data, the urgency for robust and effective fraud prevention tools is increasing in step. Arkose Labs are seeing good growth to match this upswing. They have strong backers in Microsoft and Paypal, and their customer base includes the likes of EA and Twilio.
Similar fraud prevention companies have been cropping up with competitively strong investment over recent years. So Arkose Labs’ focus on retail, gaming, and fintech sectors is a smart strategy to narrow the field. In 2024 it embarked on key leadership hires and continues to perform strongly.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2021
$70m
SERIES C
Mar 2020
$22m
SERIES B
Total funding: $99.5m
Company benefits
- 401k
- $1000 stipend to set up a home office
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Hayward Park, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Kevin Gosschalk
(CEO)After graduating from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor in Interactive Entertainment, Kevin worked in biomedical research to use machine technology to detect diabetes and then founded SwipeAds, which prevented Ad fraud. They have been a council member of the Forbes Technology Council.
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