Principal Data Engineer

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About the Role & Team:

As a Principal Data Engineer you will help us establish a new Data Engineering team that identify gaps and improvement opportunities in our existing data infrastructure and data pipelines.  Do you want the opportunity to design and build how we ingest, process, and maintain data? Are you an engineer that wants to own and transform one of the most critical assets of a company? If so, we want to hear from you.

You will use your domain knowledge, coding and architecture skills, and our use cases to create our new data pipeline that uses the appropriate technologies and frameworks for compute, storage, and messaging.  You will migrate existing pipelines to newly developed solutions. You will write elegant, maintainable code, and follow engineering best practices. You will also be a mentor to other Data Engineers and be an advisor to the technical leadership team.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Work in a lean environment building out the SecurityScorecard’s data platform using both traditional data warehousing ideologies while incorporating the latest trends in big data.  
  • Automation of innovative algorithms for data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence developed by the data science team.
  • Promote the use of Agile within the team to increase overall efficiency and predictability of project delivery.
  • Manage effective communications with key stakeholders ensuring we are using JIRA, Confluence and other tools effectively.
  • Design and develop solutions that are core to the company values and future.  
  • Help create and maintain the data engineering roadmap in collaboration with team.
  • Mentor and support team to increase their technical knowledge and overall professional development.
  • Promote a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, innovation and continuous learning across the team.
  • Development of SecurityScorecard’s Engineering brand and overall strategy to attract and maintain the greatest talent.

Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a software engineering background within Java, Python or Scala
  • 6+ years of industry experience in data engineering, data science, or a related field with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
  • Ability to translate loosely defined business requirements into specific software tasks that will facilitate SecurityScorecard developing a world class data platform.
  • Extensive experience in designing and engineering data processing workflows
  • Strong experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, EMR, Hadoop, Flink, Beam, Kafka, Hive, Presto, Athena, Impala, Atlas.
  • Deep understanding of data storage technologies for structured and unstructured data.
  • Experience with a cloud-based architecture like AWS, GCS or Azure using Linux as a primary development environment.
  • Expert in data Warehousing Modelling and data lake design. 
  • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Traits

  • The ability to create relationships across the organization and act as an ambassador across the company to promote the data transformation journey we are on.
  • Passion for innovation matched with excellent communication and analytical skills and demonstrated ability to influence strategy outside of your own team.
  • A passion for research, the landscape for data engineering is rapidly evolving and we want to use this to our competitive advantage by using the right tools.

 

Interview Process:

  • Initial Conversation with a SecurityScorecard Talent team to learn more about your experience and career objectives
  • Technical Interview with engineering team members
  • Coding Exercise - take home exercise
  • Final Interview with 1-2 engineering leaders

SecurityScorecard embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skillsets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based upon merit and do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

 

About SecurityScorecard:  

SecurityScorecard's SaaS based platform enables enterprises to instantly rate and understand the security risk of companies, non-intrusively and from an outside-in perspective. We use an A-F rating scale. Companies with a C, D or F rating are 5 times more likely to be breached or face compliance penalties than companies with an A or B rating. Our platform is used by nearly 1,000 customers for use-cases including self monitoring, vendor risk management, cyber insurance, board reporting, and M&A. 

Headquartered in New York City, we are funded by top investors such as Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, NGP, Moody’s, Intel, and others. Our vision is to create a new language for companies and their partners to communicate, understand, and improve each other’s security posture.

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