Staff /Sr Staff/ Principal Engineer, Balbix
Lakehouse
Office located in San Jose, CA
Predictive AI cyber security
Open for applications
Predictive AI cyber security
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Office located in San Jose, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable organizations to automate their cybersecurity posture and reduce their breach risk.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in backend software development dealing with large scale applications involving large scale data
- Proven experience in defining and improving application design and architecture
- Drive to discover and learn the required new technologies
- Exposure to state of the art technologies for large scale data systems
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Scala or Java
- Hands-on experience with large scale technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Cassandra
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Desirable
- In depth knowledge of technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, Trino, Scala
- Proven experience with technical ownership of large scale data systems
- Prior experience with building large systems from scratch
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- In depth knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Relevant contributions to open-source projects related to large scale systems
What the job involves
- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Design, develop, and deploy high scale systems using state of the art technologies
- Build reliable, consistent and high throughput data services and interfaces
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team
- Help define and ensure the best practices and guidelines across the systems
- Optimize and tune applications for performance and scalability
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production environments
Our take
With high profile cyber attacks continuing to make headlines with increasing impact and frequency, global cybersecurity spending has skyrocketed over recent years to approach the trillion-dollar mark. The appetite for manageable, effective security systems has never been greater. Balbix is answering this by helping organizations continuously assess and improve their cybersecurity vulnerabilities using advanced AI, and swap out a risky reactive approach for a safer predictive one.
Part of its unique response is to leverage the appeal of gamified procedures to reduce the risk of attacks brought about by the error of individual employees. It is a novel approach, and Balbix is pioneering it in a way that is likely to win attention in a busy market. Balbix services big-name clients like SalesForce, and has won many industry accolades.
With its differentiated AI-powered approach to cybersecurity posture automation and excellent reference customer deployments, Balbix is very well poised to continue leading in the cybersecurity market.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$70m
SERIES C
Jun 2018
$18.9m
SERIES B
Total funding: $116.9m
Company benefits
- Dental and Vision cover
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- Flexible time off
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Velocity
- Enterprising
- Lean
- Ownership
- Customer focus
- Innovation + integrity
- Tenacity
Company HQ
West Valley, San Jose, CA
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Leadership
Gaurav Banga
(CEO)Co-founder and former CEO at Bromium. Former CTO at Phoenix technologies Ltd. Phd in Computer Science at Rice University.
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