Halcyon is hiring a
Data Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Halcyon's team of cyber industry veterans as a remote-native engineer to contribute to the development of our cloud applications and data platform, breaking new ground in anti-ransomware solutions. As an experienced engineer, you will assist in feature development, enhance developer experience, collaborate with product teams, interface with API and applications teams, build and expand the Data Platform development team, maintain code quality, innovate and improve development processes, and design for sustainable reliability.

Requirements

• Experience building data processing platforms using a modern programming language and common data processing libraries
• Experience interfacing with a variety of databases and data stores
• Experience with streaming data processing
• Experience deploying infrastructure and applications in AWS
• Experience collaborating with other engineering teams on integration and architectural design
• Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes with Helm (or similar tooling)

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of new and existing data platform features
• Enhance the experience for developers within the team, ensuring a productive and collaborative environment
• Work closely with product managers. Align data platform functionality with product vision and user needs, ensuring consistency across platforms
• Coordinate with API and cloud applications developers. Ensure that the needs of the API and Cloud Applications teams are being met by the data platform
• Actively participate in the recruitment and growth of the Data Platform development team
• Maintain high standards for code quality and documentation
• Continuously explore new techniques and tools to improve development processes
• Design for sustainable reliability and monitor the data platform for issues or degradation and respond appropriately and responsibly

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building data processing applications in Scala/Kotlin/Java or Rust
• Experience with Terraform, GitLab, and/or ArgoCD
• Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Postgres, DynamoDB, and/or Kafka

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• 401k plan with a generous employer contribution
• Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans
• Medical and dependent care FSA options
• Flexible PTO policy
• Parental leave
• Generous equity offering