C++ Software Engineer

Funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV, Riverwood Capital, and others with over $290 million in funding, SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over 2M+ companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 16,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, board reporting, due diligence, and cyber insurance underwriting. This is done by measuring your and your vendors' cyber-health by assigning a security rating of "A" through "F" based on outside-in, non-intrusive data. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.

SecurityScorecard is headquartered in NYC with over 500+ employees globally. Our culture has helped us be recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace," "Best Places to Work in NYC" by Crain's NY, and one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in NY for two years in a row.

What you will do:

We’re looking for an experienced / senior backend engineer to join the engineering team. You’ll be working alongside a highly technical and motivated team and report to one of our Engineering Managers in the Tech Organization. You would be expected to apply fundamental engineering to solve problems and overcome challenges, that help streamline the business process and not just develop code.

The Measurements (aka BluePipe) Team is a core part the company’s data processing pipeline. We have a very large but clean code base as we put significant emphasis on design patterns, code readability, testability, maintainability, and extendability.

Opportunity

We are targeting intellectually curious, principled and passionate systems software engineers who want to be a key member of a world class data pipeline team. If elegant design, copy-by-value semantics and generic programming operating at scale appeal to you, then we should talk.

Our engineering team works on a greenfield data processing pipeline that leverages modular, composable, idiomatic C++1x, with an orchestration layer of Python & Scala to keep things simple and efficient.

SecurityScorecard’s engineering team collects and analyzes data on the evolving security posture/state of the Internet. The problems we tackle are global in scale and must be handled in an efficient and timely manner. Some of the key challenges in our environment are keeping solutions simple and composable so we can reason about them at scale. This is the hallmark of functional programming, high performance computing and large scale distributed systems design.

Role & Responsibilities

• Analysis, design and troubleshooting of our data distribution and processing architecture
• Key developer of Bluepipe, our native processing pipeline
• Primary advocate for tool introduction and removal
• Key party in system selection and configuration
• Clear articulated communication (drawings / presentations / writeups) with engineering, operations and product management staff
• Mentorship of junior and mid-career engineers

Tool We Use

• Data formats – JSON / XML / CSV / Protobuf / ORC / Parquet
• Interfaces - REST API(s), Kafka
• Databases - Postgres (and other SQL) / Presto / Scylla / Hive / Redis
• Languages - C++14 / Python / Scala
• Job Orchestration - HT Condor / Apache Airflow / Rundeck
• Analytics - Spark / Databricks
• Storage - ObjectiveFS / Object Stores
• Computation - Cloud Computing / Containers / VMs

What We Expect From You

• A couple years of solid C++ experience
• Practical knowledge of C++ STL containers (vector, array, set…)
• Understanding of C++ templates (generic programming) and lambda functions
• Firm understanding of computational complexity and performance-optimized coding
• Basic Bash scripting and know your way in Linux-like command line
• English language proficiency, both oral and written

What Else Would We Welcome

• Experience with large data volumes processing
• Cybersecurity background

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, stock options, a comprehensive benefits package, unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursements, and much more!

SecurityScorecard embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skillsets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based upon merit and do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.