Principal Software Architect, 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
- Extensive Experience: 15+ years in software engineering (or 12+ with a Master’s degree), including cloud-native application development and distributed systems at web scale
- Hands-on experience with stream processing frameworks like Apache Flink
- Proficiency in Go (Python familiarity is a plus)
- Strong understanding of web/HTTP protocols, DNS, TLS, browser caching, and CDNs (e.g., Cloudflare, CloudFront)
- Proven track record of leading large-scale SaaS product architectures and delivering exceptional business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate team performance
- Strategic Thinker: Adept at balancing high-level business needs with deep technical decisions
- Deployment Knowledge: Familiarity with A/B testing, blue-green environments, and canary deployments
- Full SDLC Expertise: Deep experience across architectural reviews, technical design, implementation, CI/CD, and testing
Desirable
- Advanced proficiency in Go
- Experience in cybersecurity or fraud prevention technologies
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of our product architecture, with a focus on stream processing and cloud-native distributed systems
- Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of Arkose’s product architecture, focusing on stream processing and distributed systems to handle high-volume data at scale
- Deliver Impact: Collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership teams to ensure alignment on technical designs and business goals
- Be a Technical Authority: Gain deep knowledge of our product, data flows, and customer use cases to guide architecture decisions with performance, cost, and reliability in mind
- Lead and Mentor: Provide technical leadership across product areas, mentor engineers at all levels, and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration
- Drive Execution: Take ownership of critical projects, independently driving them to completion while maintaining the highest standards of quality and scalability
- Innovate Strategically: Bring creativity and a customer-focused approach to influence the strategic direction of our technology and products
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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