Principal Engineer, Arkose Labs
$250-290k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Fraud detection platform
Open for applications
Fraud detection platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$250-290k
+ Equity
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
- 15+ years of engineering experience focused on application development (or Masters and 12 + years related experience)
- Deep, technical understanding of application development in the cloud, with hands on experience making trade offs and data driving design decisions
- Production-level experience using stream processing architecture and frameworks like Apache Flink
- Production-level experience developing cloud-native distributed systems processing very high volumes of traffic and data at scale
- Strong knowledge of web/HTTP concepts and methodologies - DNS, TLS, browser caching, CDNs (e.g. Cloudflare/CloudFront)
- Adept at thinking at a high level catering to the business needs, as well as going very deep into a specific technical area
- Have shown strong customer focus and working backwards from their needs
- Led the architecture of successful, large scale SaaS products and delivered exceptional business outcomes in cloud environments
- Mentored senior and/or staff engineers to get them to the next level
- Expert proficiency with Golang and familiarity with Python/Go.
- Good understanding of the SDLC ranging from architectural reviews, technical design deep dives, implementation, testing, CI & CD
- Familiarity with A/B testing, blue-green environments and canary deployments
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Exposure to cyber security and fraud prevention industry verticals and technologies a plus
What the job involves
- Engineering at Arkose Labs is going through an exciting transformation to massively scale up the business. We’re looking for an exceptional technical leader with experience in stream processing architecture using frameworks like Apache Flink to help shape our product and meet the hyper growth needs of our business
- If you embrace the challenge of positively influencing cross functional teams to move towards modern and scalable architectural design decisions, then this position is for you. An ideal candidate is someone who is hands-on in solving complex software engineering problems, while at the same time savvy enough to understand the business needs
- Achieve a deep knowledge of Arkose’s product architecture, data flows, usage patterns, and customer scenarios to become a technical authority for overall architecture
- Understand and help evolve our current architecture to use stream processing and design of the product to meet scaling needs of the business
- Strike the right balance of meeting the growing demands of the business along with making sensible architecture decisions
- Take lead on projects with little to no additional direction from engineering/product leadership, drive and help track them to completion if needed
- Partner with fellow architecture leads, eng management, and product management on project requirements, designs, and development plans
- Provide technical leadership across multiple product areas, and provide recommendation to senior leadership
- Keep product quality, operating cost, and reliability top of mind by keeping those as core tenets to architecture
- Mentor engineers at all levels and partner with Engineering leadership in fostering a nurturing culture that focuses on innovation and execution
- Bring creativity and passion to influence the strategic direction of our technology and products as well as mentor other members of your team
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 values
- People - Our people are our most valuable resource and are independent thinkers who make data-driven decisions and take ownership and accountability in all the things that they do
- Customer obsession - We empathise with our customers and obsess about solving their problems
- Team work - We demonstrate respect, trust, integrity, and communicate openly with a positive can do attitude and constructively challenge one another
- Execution - We execute with precision, professionalism and urgency
- Security - Security is the lens through which we implement our processes, procedures, and programs
Company HQ
Hayward Park, San Mateo, CA
Articles
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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