Senior Software Engineer (Cortex Xpanse Collections)

About the position

The Xpanse Collections team is expanding, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer. The Collections team is responsible for scanning the public Internet, extracting public data sets, and integrating with 3rd party data sets to create the foundation for Xpanse’s Attack Surface Management and Threat Hunt products. We gather an “attacker’s view” of every publicly accessible service so our customers can better understand their technology footprint and vulnerability risk. In this role, you will play a key part in securing some of the world’s largest and most consequential organizations in both the public and private sector.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust data collection pipelines using Java multithreading and Apache Beam frameworks
• Architect and implement scalable ETL and ELT processes to handle data ranging from gigabytes to petabytes in size
• Design and optimize data storage and indexing solutions for both real-time streaming and batch processing applications
• Enhance and optimize Internet scanning workloads in Golang
• Investigate new data sources and perform data analysis to estimate customer impact
• Collaborate with the rest of your team on architectural direction, managing technical debt, and continuously evolving the team's agile development process
• Engage with downstream teams to enable the creation of new customer-facing features
• Mentor other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output
• Take ownership of projects, drive them to completion, and support them in production

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer writing back end software
• Have a passion for writing software that boosts the productivity of other software development teams
• Excited to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production; results driven, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experienced and opinionated about API design and distributed backend systems
• Able to switch between research, design, prototype, and implementation
• Proficient in Java or Golang
• Familiar with at least one of the major cloud platforms (eg., GCP, AWS or Azure)

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise with any of the following: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigTable, Apache Beam, low-level Internet protocols, database profiling
• Experience using and enhancing CI/CD systems

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees
• Mental and financial health resources
• Personalized learning opportunities