Principal Engineer

You will:

• Architect and implement modules for ingesting, storing and manipulating large data sets for a variety of cybersecurity use-cases. 
• Write code to provide backend support for data-driven UI widgets, web dashboards, workflows, search and API connectors.  
• Design and implement high performance APIs between our frontend and backend components, and between different backend components. 
• Build production quality solutions that balance complexity and performance
• Participate in the engineering life-cycle at Balbix, including designing high quality UI components, writing production code, conducting code reviews and working alongside our backend infrastructure and reliability teams
• Stay current on the ever-evolving technology landscape of web based UIs and recommend new systems for incorporation in our technology stack.

You are:

• Product-focused and passionate about building truly usable systems
• Collaborative and comfortable working with across teams including data engineering, front end, product management, and DevOps
• Responsible and like to take ownership of challenging problems
• A good communicator, and facilitate teamwork via good documentation practices
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to iterate quickly in response to an evolving understanding of customer needs
• Curious about the world and your profession, and a constant learner 

You have:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of experience in the backend web stack (Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, Elastic Search, Postgres, Java, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• SQL, no-SQL database experience
• Experience building API (development experience using GraphQL is a plus)
• Familiarity with issues of web performance, availability, scalability, reliability, and maintainability