What are we looking for?

Our mission is to enhance customer safety by advancing the detection and investigation capabilities within our Singularity Data-Lake. We strive to provide robust, efficient, and scalable solutions that elevate the overall security posture of our clients.

We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer with the ability to lead features and inspire others. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing new functionalities for the Singularity Data-Lake products, which process several Petabytes of data daily.

If you are a versatile engineer with a sharp product sensibility, you'll have remarkable opportunities to directly influence how our customers utilize our platform for threat hunting and building cutting-edge threat intelligence solutions. Our roadmap includes an array of exciting new functionalities and ambitious cost and performance objectives to efficiently process vast amounts of data, all to the advantage of our customers.

What will you do?

The Singularity Data Lake (SDL) team is building towards autonomous SIEM. Helping SOC analysts achieve cybersecurity outcomes with greater accuracy and speed, The SDL engineering team solves non-trivial scale and data problems with a unique blending of cloud, distributed systems, and software optimization techniques and services. Join our team and help advance the state of the art of cybersecurity. As part of the team that we’re extending, you’ll work on vast amounts of data. You’ll take part in the architecture, design and implementation of a multi-disciplinary cloud native software platform that will serve thousands of users and billions of events.

• Design, develop, implement, test, document, and operate large-scale, high-volume and low latency applications that handle several millions of events per second.
• Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions that work well within the overall data architecture.
• Participate and collaborate with cross functional teams in the organization to understand the business requirements and to deliver solutions that can scale.
• Maintain application stability and data integrity by monitoring key metrics and improving codebase accordingly.
• Understand & maintain existing codebase by regular re-factoring and applying requested fixes and features.
• Learn new technologies that can solve our huge volume of data and the challenges it poses.

Your Toolkit:

• Our new components are primarily developed in Go, with extensive use of Scala and Python in our current backend environment.
• Communication between microservices is facilitated using gRPC, REST, GraphQL APIs, and Kafka, depending on specific requirements.
• We rely on Redis and Cassandra for caching and have our columnar time-series database for efficient event storage and retrieval at scale.

Does this sound like you?

• You are passionate about building high-scale distributed systems.
• You care about delivering customer value and want to hear directly from your customers on how to improve and evolve your applications.
• You enjoy a collaborative development process using design discussions and code review.

What experience or knowledge should you bring?

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in at least one high-level programming language (Go, Scala, Java or Python)
• Strong background in distributed data processing microservices, building high-quality, scalable data products
• Familiarity with AWS, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, shaping best practices and driving their adoption
• Ability to swiftly delve into new products and comprehend their inner workings
• Proven capacity to collaborate effectively with both local and remote teams across various time zones
• Excellent communication skills, as you'll regularly liaise with product and other engineering teams
• A huge plus would be previous experience in developing security-related products

What we offer you

Salary from 5000 EUR/month.
Yearly variable % target bonus depending on the performance of the company, paid out in 2 installments.
*The final base salary component can be increased accordingly to individual skills and experience of the selected candidate.

On top of that you may look forward to:

• Flexible working hours & Full remote within Slovakia; optional membership in Regus co-working spaces; in Czechia we also have offices in Prague or Brno
• Generous employee stock plan in the form of RSUs (restricted stock units) not options; 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff and then quarterly
• Meal Allowance (maximum value of the employer’s contribution per day: €4.29)
• Wellbeing Allowance (€120/month)
• Flexible Time Off (on top of the standard 5 weeks of vacation)
• Flexible Paid Sick Days
• Fully Paid Short Term Sick/Short Term Nursing Leave
• Global gender-neutral Parental Leave (16 weeks, beyond the leave provided by the local laws) & Grandparent Leave
• Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays off
• Pension insurance contribution
• Premium Life Insurance covered by S1
• Global Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling related to both personal and work life matters), Wellness Coach:Mind Body Sleep app company access (sessions, audiobooks, classes, private coaching etc.)
• High-end MacBook or Windows laptop, Home-office-setup gear & on top of that additional WFH Allowance
• Udemy Business platform for Hard/Soft skills Training, internal mentoring 'MentorOne' & Support for your further educational activities/trainings
• Above-standard referral bonus
• Yearly bonus depending on the performance of the company
• Optional company events for those who like to meet outside of work too - mostly in Czechia expensed as business trip (sport, BBQ, charity etc.)
• DEI&B programs that promote employee resource groups like SentinelWIN (Women Inclusion Network), Blk@S1, Latinos@S1, Pan-Asian@S1, Out@S1 (LGBTQIA+) and Sentinels Who Served