Senior Backend Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities: — Lead the design and delivery of features across the data platform and public API services, including ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of security data. — Drive system design, architecture, and data flow decisions in partnership with product and platform engineering. — Build, deploy, and own Scala-based backend services in production, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. — Lead the migration of selected APIs from Scala to Rust, maintaining consistency and continuity. — Set standards for code quality, documentation, and operational excellence. — Participate in design reviews, code reviews, on-call duties, and incident response. — Support and enhance the Python-based security analysis platform, including malware analysis engines, automated threat detection, and machine learning workflows. Requirements: — Over 5 years of backend engineering experience, recently working with JVM-based codebases. — Proven experience designing and owning distributed systems. — Experience with Rust or strong understanding of its appropriate use and migration guidance. — Strong knowledge of APIs, messaging systems like Kafka, and modern data stores such as Postgres, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch. — Experience building services in cloud-native environments, preferably AWS. — Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes. — Comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team. Bonus Skills: — Familiarity with functional programming and idiomatic Scala. — Experience with Databricks, ClickHouse, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions. — Knowledge of observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch. — Prior work on security products, data pipelines, or high-availability systems. — Python development experience with security analysis tools and malware detection frameworks (YARA, PE analysis, binary analysis). — Familiarity with machine learning workflows, AutoML, MLflow. — Experience with binary analysis libraries (LIEF, ssdeep, TLSH) and security tooling integration. Benefits: — Comprehensive healthcare including medical, dental, and vision with premiums fully paid for employees and dependents. — 401k plan with generous employer contribution. — Short and long-term disability coverage, life and AD&D insurance. — Medical and dependent care FSA options. — Flexible PTO policy and parental leave. — Generous equity offering. — Company reserves the right to modify benefits at any time. The role is fully remote. Salary range is $120,000 to $170,000 per year with a 10% bonus target. The company is an equal opportunity employer focused on building an innovative anti-ransomware platform.