Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join SecurityScorecard's growing Technology team as a Senior Backend Engineer and play a key role in building reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. You will lead projects from design to deployment, collaborating with Product Managers and UX Designers. Focus on simplicity while contributing technical insights to enhance system performance, stability, and user experience. The role involves participating in all stages of the software development lifecycle, following clean code principles, and working closely with a global team. You will translate requirements, estimate effort, and continuously monitor performance metrics. SecurityScorecard offers a competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and tuition reimbursements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in the Data Engineering space, and with building and maintaining big data pipelines
• 5+ years of experience working in agile environments (ideally Scrum), collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product)
• Proficient in Spark (Scala preferred)
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with external services
• Participate in code reviews to ensure best practices, maintainability, and continuous improvement of the codebase
• Ability to write and maintain unit and integration tests based on acceptance criteria, ensuring code quality and reliability
• Proficiency with version control tools, particularly Git, for collaborative development and code management

Responsibilities

• Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle, from design and development to deployment and maintenance
• Follow clean code principles, using best practices to write secure, testable, and well-documented software
• Work closely with a global team, including engineers, product managers, and UX designers, to build a stable, high-performance platform
• Implement comprehensive testing and performance tuning to ensure system stability and uptime
• Translate requirements, estimate effort, and address or escalate blockers as needed
• Write clean, maintainable code that adheres to best practices in readability, design patterns, reusability, and testing
• Own end-to-end projects, understanding and contributing to all aspects (infrastructure, application tiers, and data tiers)
• Continuously monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements or refactors

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of building scalable and high-performance back-end systems, optimizing for low-latency and high-throughput
• Worked with a variety of data (structured/unstructured), data formats (flat files, XML, JSON, relational, parquet)
• Experience in Cyber Security
• Strong attention to documentation and maintaining standards across projects
• Ability to present and defend technical decisions with confidence
• Skilled at estimating project complexity based on early documentation and discussions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions clearly

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Health benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursements