Principal Full Stack Engineer

WHO WE ARE

Balbix is the world's leading platform for cybersecurity posture automation company. The Balbix Security Cloud uses AI and automation to reinvent how the World's leading organizations reduce their cyber risk. With Balbix, security teams can accurately inventory their cloud and on-prem assests, conduct vulnerability management and quantify their cyber risk in monetary terms.

Balbix counts many global 1000 companies among its rapidly growing customer base. We are backed by John Chambers (the former CEO and Chairman of Cisco), top Silicon Valley VCs and global investors. We have been called magical, and have received raving reviews as well as customer testimonials, numerous industry awards, and recognition by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, and by Frost & Sullivan.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

As a Principal Full Stack Engineer, you will drive the architecture and development to accelerate the pace of our application life cycle. You will collaborate closely with our data scientists, threat researchers and network experts to solve real-world problems plaguing cybersecurity. This role requires excellent architecture, design, testing and programming skills.

You will:

- Collaborate hands-on with the CTO, UX/design and product team members to drive the scope, design, development and launch of high-impact capabilities on a high-velocity, iterative basis

- Work with our in-house design team to realize Balbix’s vision of a powerful AI-powered system-of-experience for cybersecurity professionals

- Architect and lead implementation of data-driven widgets, dashboards, workflows, and other features as web-based user interfaces. 

- Design and lead implementation high-performance APIs between our frontend and backend components. 

- Build production quality solutions that balance complexity and performance

- Participate in the engineering life cycle at Balbix, including designing high quality UI components, writing production code, conducting code reviews and working alongside our backend infrastructure and reliability teams

- Stay current on the ever-evolving technology landscape of web-based UIs, APIs and recommend new systems for incorporation in our technology stack.

You are:

- An inspiring engineering leader

- Experienced with modern software design and UX

- Able to take on complex problems, learn quickly, iterate, and persevere towards bringing features from a design specification to production

- Product-focused and passionate about building truly usable systems

- Collaborative and comfortable working with across teams including design, data engineering, front end, product management, and DevOps

- Responsible and like to take ownership of challenging problems

- A good communicator, and facilitate teamwork 

- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to iterate quickly in response to an evolving understanding of customer needs

- Curious about the world and your profession, and a constant learner 

You have:

- BS in Computer Science or related field

- 8+ years of experience in creating powerful yet easy-to-use

interfaces (NodeJS, ReactJS, JavaScript, Typescript, HTML5)

- 8+ years of experience in the backend web stack (Node.js, Python, OpenSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

- SQL, no-SQL database experience

- Experience building API (development experience using GraphQL is a plus)

- Familiarity with issues of web performance, availability, scalability, reliability, and maintainability

Life @ Balbix

At Balbix, we have built a culture that aligns to our values of ownership, customer focus, curiosity, tenacity, innovation, judgement, teamwork, communication, honesty and impact. In joining our team you’ll work with very motivated and knowledgeable people, build pioneering products and utilize cutting-edge technology. Our Balbix team members see rapid career growth opportunities stemming from our culture of alignment, bottom up innovation, our clarity of goals and unrelenting mission. Last but not least, developing the world's most advanced platform to address what the most important (and hardest) technology problem facing mankind today is exceptionally rewarding!

Benefits & Perks 

Balbix offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance and long-term disability coverage for you and your family. Our Flex Time Off policy encourages you to take time off when you need it because we know and value how hard you work. When it comes to our offices it’s location, location, location we’re right next door to Santana Row so you can enjoy your time in (and out) of the office! 

More information at https://www.balbix.com/company/careers/

Please reach out if you want a seat on our rocket-ship and are passionate about changing the cybersecurity equation. 

At Balbix we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to equality, fairness and human kindness.

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