Senior Data Engineer, SpyCloud
$144-187k
Cybercrime analytics platform
Posted today
Cybercrime analytics platform
201-500 employees
Posted today
$144-187k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or closely related disciplines
- 2+ years in a technical leadership or senior engineering role
- Experience building and operating Lakehouse, Databricks, or large-scale distributed data lake architectures in AWS
- Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing
- Experience building and managing large Elasticsearch/Opensearch data stores
- Hands on experience building ETL scripts
- Hands-on experience preparing and managing data for machine learning and LLM workflows
- Strong development skills in Python, especially in building data-intensive systems
- Practical experience using DynamoDB and other AWS-native data services at scale
- Effective communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to mentor and grow engineering talent and lead large-scale initiatives
Desirable
- Familiarity with AI/ML tools such as SageMaker, LangChain, or vector databases
- Understanding of data governance, privacy, and compliance in AI contexts
- Comfort working in fast-paced environments with evolving product and technical requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field
- C programming language experience
- Go programming language experience
- Experience with password cracking tools
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer at SpyCloud, you will lead the architectural transformation of our data systems, working closely with Product Management, SpyCloud Labs, and Engineering teams
- Your focus will be on modernizing our data platform utilizing Databricks and serving customers via purpose-built data stores (RDS, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB…etc), This is a hands-on, strategic leadership role shaping the future of data at SpyCloud
- Redesign and modernize data architecture for scalability, performance, and AI-readiness
- Use databricks/spark to prepare, transform and serve data to customers
- Build and optimize real-time and batch data pipelines using AWS tools (e.g, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS, Terraform)
- Design systems to prepare and serve high-quality data for ML models and LLM applications
- Optimize cost and performance of daily data ingestion, transformation, and storage workflows
- Work with Product and Engineering teams to ensure data solutions meet product requirements
- Evaluate and implement modern tooling for data processing, ML data workflows, and observability
- Guide and mentor data engineers, championing best practices and technical excellence
- Ensure operational data quality, security, and reliability across systems
- Lead long-term data architecture planning aligned with company and AI-driven goals
Our take
Mainstream browsers are heavily monitored to help combat cybercrime, but these browsers are generally not used by digital criminals. The 'dark web' operates outside of the legal web, with criminals using such platforms to sell login details and other sensitive information.
SpyCloud provides a web plugin that monitors websites and forums on the dark web to inform companies of when sensitive data that matches their credentials is located. This allows companies to identify and take action upon a data breach before any harm can be done.
There are many fraud and cybercrime detection software companies on the market but SpyCloud's specialization in monitoring the dark web has carved it out a distinct niche. This has seen it attract an impressive client list of over 500 enterprises, as well as significant funding that supports further platform development.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$35m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2023
$110m
LATE VC
Total funding: $203.5m
Company benefits
- Health benefits: From medical to dental, we’ve got you covered.
- Work/life balance: We offer generous PTO and a remote-friendly culture.
- Compensation: Our talented employees enjoy competitive salaries and equity.
- 401k matching: Investing in the future of our employees is a no-brainer.
- SpyCares: We’re only as strong as the communities we’re a part of and giving back is in our DNA.
Company HQ
Bouldin Creek, Austin, TX
Leadership
Ted Ross
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ted worked in Security Systems for the US Air Force before working in Engineering at West Corporation, Wal-Mart and Extreme Networks. He also worked at HP for 4 years in Threat Intelligence before co-founding SpyCloud in 2016.
Alen Puzic
(Co-Founder & CIO)Prior to SpyCloud, Alen co-founded PwnedList and served as the CTO for 5 years. He also served as the VP of Development at InfoArmor and as a Security Engineer at Click Security and TippingPoint. Before this, he spent 4 years at IBM as a Software Engineer.
Ronak Patel
(CTO)Ronak joined SpyCloud in 2018 as a Director of Engineering, he then moved into the role of VP of Engineering in 2019 and CTO in 2023. Prior to SpyCloud, he was a Lead Software Engineer at ReIntent, a Lead Platform Engineer at Waterfall and an IT Specialist at IBM.
Damon Fleury
(CPO)Damon joined SpyCloud in 2022 as VP of Strategy, moving into the role of CPO that same year. Previously, he worked as a Security Product & Service Strategy Consultant at Argyle Technologies and served as the CTO of Ataraxis Cyber.
Brad Rouse
(CRO)Prior to joining SpyCloud in 2025, Brad served as the CRO at Protegrity and Qrypt. He also spent 6 years at Entrust as a Director of SSL Sales Americas, Entrust Certificates Services and as the Global VP of SSL Sales.
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