Protect your supply chain and manage third-party cyber risk with SecurityScorecard. Trusted by 25,000+ organizations for continuous vendor monitoring and TPRM. Backed by Sequoia and GV.
About the role
SecurityScorecard is hiring a Principal Software Architect to lead the system design of our data platform. Rating 12 million companies continuously means ingesting internet-scale measurement data, processing it across streaming, microbatch, and batch paths, storing it so it stays queryable and affordable as it grows, and serving analytics fast enough that customers can explore their own risk in real time. The data is not a byproduct of our product. It is the product.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of software or data engineering experience, including significant time architecting large-scale data platforms
- Deep expertise in stream and batch processing at scale with Kafka, Flink, and Spark or close equivalents, and clear judgment about which path a given workload belongs in
- Strong Python and PySpark, solid Java for Flink stream processing, and enough Scala to read and reason about an existing Spark codebase
- Hands-on experience designing lakehouse storage in production: columnar formats such as Parquet, open table formats such as Iceberg, and the partitioning, compaction, and schema evolution decisions that come with them
- Experience architecting OLAP and analytical serving layers (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, BigQuery, Snowflake or similar)
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals as they apply to data: exactly-once versus at-least-once semantics, ordering, backpressure, late and out-of-order data, and pipeline failure modes
More about this role
SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint.
Headquartered in New York City, our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace,” by Crain’s NY as a "Best Places to Work in NYC," and as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in New York for two years in a row. Most recently, SecurityScorecard was named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023 and to the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in 2023 award recognizing “forward-thinking employers for their unwavering commitment to employee engagement.” SecurityScorecard is proud to be funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s,...
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