Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform(AppSec)

Position Summary

This role comes under the AppSec Platform charter, focused on designing and developing a multi cloud, portable, OSS backed, streaming first data platform for powering API observability & security products. Additionally the team is also responsible for common services in the authentication & authorization space.

The platform serves as the core-pillar for customer facing Analytics module & supports various product modules like Catalog, Run-time Protection, Application Security Testing as well.

About the Role

• You will contribute to the development of scalable and highly available data platform systems.
• You would solve deep problems around performance, scalability, cost for data systems.
• You would help scaling and operationalising data systems working closely with SRE teams.
• You would be building these platforms and systems that will be used by other product engineering teams.

About You

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3-6 years of backend engineering experience, with strong focus on data platforms.
• Proven expertise in building low-latency, highly concurrent microservices in the Data Platform space.
• Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin).
• Mandatory - Good understanding of distributed storage & compute technologies in the Datalake/Lakehouse space - like Iceberg, Delta, Trino, StarRocks, Spark.
• Preferred - Understanding of MPP/OLAP DBs like Pinot or Druid. Understanding of streaming technologies like Flink, Kafka Streams or Spark Streaming.

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