Senior Software Engineer

Description

Hunters Next-Gen SIEM automates threat detection, investigation, and response, freeing analysts to proactively protect their organizations. Hunters deploys in days and eliminates repetitive work with out-of-the-box integrations and detection rules. High priority alerts are surfaced based on risk and confidence scoring, and similar alerts are clustered together, reducing alert triage by 80%. Customers can build an open, scalable data lake at a predictable cost, and bring their own data lake or leverage Hunters’. Team Axon provides rapid response to emerging threats, incident investigation, proactive threat hunting, and security posture and hygiene reporting.

Hunters was recognized as a Leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for SIEM and received an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM. Learn how companies like Booking.com, Snowflake, TheRealReal and Cimpress are leveraging Hunters to empower their security teams at https://www.hunters.security.

Hunters is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors including Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks, and Okta

We are looking for a top-notch Senior Software Engineer to help us tackle the toughest challenge in cybersecurity: turning endless amounts of data into crisp, easy, and actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a senior Agile Scrum team to design, develop, and maintain large-scale, cloud-based data processing pipelines and backend components. Work with cutting-edge technologies including Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, AWS, and modern data lakes like Databricks and Snowflake.
• Design and implement scalable, cost-effective solutions that deliver high performance and are easy to maintain. Tackle complex, high-scale problems and drive performance optimization and cost-efficiency across the data pipeline.
• Partner with engineers across Hunters' R&D and Product teams to enhance our platform and provide capabilities for internal and external users to build data transformations and detection pipelines at scale.
• Build robust monitoring and observability solutions to ensure full visibility across all stages of data processing.
• Stay current with trends in big data processing and distributed computing. Contribute to code quality through regular reviews and adherence to best practices.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Scala/Python/JAVA and cloud architecture (EMR/K8S).
• Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, and data modeling of large data sets.
• Proven track record of delivering scalable, and secure systems in a fast-paced working environment.
• Experience with data governance practices, data security, and performance & cost optimization containers, working with AWS services such as S3, EKS, and more.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
• A team player with excellent communication skills.  
• B.Sc. in computer science or an equivalent.

Advantages:

• Experience in Big Data frameworks: Spark/ Flink
• Experience with modern Data lakes/warehouses such as Snowflake and Databricks.
• Production experience working with SaaS environments.
• Experience in data modeling.