Sr Staff Software Engineer (Cortex Xpanse Collections)

Your Career

The Xpanse Collections team is expanding and were looking for a Senior Staff 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 Xpanses Attack Surface Management and Threat Hunt products. We gather an attackers 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 worlds largest and most consequential organizations in both the public and private sector.

Your Impact

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Collections team you will 

• 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 realtime 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 teams agile development process

• Engage with downstream teams to enable the creation of new customerfacing features

• Mentor other engineers and ensure that your team delivers highquality output

• Take ownership of projects drive them to completion and support them in production

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 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 problemsolving skills.

• Experienced and opinionated about API design and distributed backend systems. Able to switch between research design prototype and implementation.

• Are proficient in Java or Golang

• Familiar with at least one of the major cloud platforms (eg. GCP AWS or Azure).

These will fetch you bonus points

• Have expertise with any of the following: GCP Kubernetes Terraform BigQuery PostgreSQL MySQL BigTable Apache Beam lowlevel Internet protocols database profiling
• Have experience using and enhancing CI/CD systems

Additional Information :

The Team

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 Xpanses Attack Surface Management and Threat Hunt products. We gather an attackers view of every publicly accessible service so our customers can better understand their technology footprint and vulnerability risk.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $149k $190k/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.