Senior Developer (Back End)

Position Summary: 

Reporting to the Lead Engineer, this backend-focused, mission-driven Developer will join the Deepwatch Research and Development team and contribute to the planning, design, development, and maintenance of a serverless API-driven, customer-facing SaaS product.  

Join a highly collaborative product development team building a customer-facing portal for a well-funded startup. Deepwatch provides critical cybersecurity products and services to power the cyber defense for enterprises which makes the digital world a safer place for folks like you and me. As a member, you will contribute to our product mission to help our customers understand their existing cybersecurity landscape and opportunities for improvements. As a backed-focused engineer, we will be building a secure and high-performance API platform and a modern data platform that can handle near-real-time data feed.

In this role, you’ll get to:

• Support the organization’s analytical needs in batch and near-real-time as a Data Engineer by:
• Contributing to a modern ELT data pipeline using Snowflake, dbt, and Monte Carlo data monitoring
• Working on other types of data such as streaming (Kafka, Kinesis) and data storage technologies (NoSQL, Elasticsearch) to enhance our data collection and usage capabilities in future projects 
• Help enterprises protect themselves from malicious attacks as a Senior Backend Engineer by leading feature implementation on a Typescript-based serverless GraphQL API server with Aurora database in AWS
• Enhance our CI/CD pipeline by building and extending our secure infrastructure through AWS CDK and/or Terraform 
• Contribute to software architecture design and drive them from inception to reality, leveraging other engineers’ feedback and assistance
• Learn and advance your career in a fast-changing industry, leveraging the company’s unique professional development benefits and matching policies to support our growth 

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to:

• Demonstrate the level of object-oriented programming understanding typically associated with 3-5 years of programming experience in Python or Javascript/Typescript
• Possess cloud-computing know-how to provision, configure, scale, and troubleshoot a cloud-native backend API service with one or more persistent storage. AWS is preferred but relevant experience from Azure or GCP is acceptable.  
• Have strong hands-on experience with SQL. Know what CTE, window functions, columnar storage, and execution plans are.
• Leverage your hands-on experience in enterprise software/product development, along with your understanding of critical information and security components
• Possess familiarity with agile development processes and test-driven development. 
• Be self-driven, hold yourself accountable for outcomes, and manage your own time working in a flexible and remote-first environment
• Communicate openly with the product development team to ensure the best idea wins
• Keep an open mind to receive and implement security advice from our internal security experts to make the software secure  
• Win as a team and lose as a team, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance
• Be willing and able to travel for internal gatherings and team-building events on an (at-most) quarterly basis

ITAR Compliance

This position will have access to customer data and as such is subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Upon application, candidates will be asked to confirm that they are a U.S. Person as defined by the following:

• A citizen of the U.S.;
• A lawful permanent resident of the United States; 
• A person admitted to the United States as a refugee; or
• A person that has been granted asylum by the United States government.

The intent of this requirement is not to verify employment eligibility overall, but to ensure compliance with import/export regulations. If you do not meet these requirements, we encourage you to apply for other open roles at Deepwatch. This information will be verified upon offer of employment.

Colorado* Candidates:

For applicants in Colorado the salary range for this role is $124,000 to $155,000 + stock options + benefits. Actual compensation may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level.

*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20).