Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform (Remote)

Nebulock Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Nebulock Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to lead cross-functional projects, own data ingestion and search layers, and drive architectural changes for latency and reliability.

You will help scale to ingest terabytes of data daily and build expressions that power AI threat hunting workflows. You will work closely with stakeholders to deliver data solutions for internal and external customers and mentor junior engineers while promoting best practices and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, Rust, or similar
• Hands-on experience designing large-scale event streaming systems such as Kafka or similar
• Experience working on search or analytics products over large datasets
• Strong systems thinking and understanding of performance, cost and complexity trade-offs
• Experience with either AWS or GCP
• Ability to adapt, iterate, and ship quickly
• Hunger for growth and the desire to work in a low-ego environment

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest and process large volumes of security telemetry (TBs / day)
• Own API and event stream integrations across a wide range of third-party data sources (EDR, IAM, Cloud, SaaS)
• Partner with product stakeholders to build data solutions that will be consumed by both internal and external customers
• Guide the future technical direction that allows rapid development of product capabilities and efficient scaling of backend systems
• Use AI agents to build creative solutions to solve problems such as data mapping and entity correlation
• Set and promote engineering standards and best practices, including observability, monitoring and automated testing
• Be a mentor to junior engineers and help grow the engineering talent within the team

Skills

Distributed systems design

Programming languages (Python/Java/Go,

Tools

Kafka

Search/Analytics tools

AWS/GCP

Job description

Nebulock Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to lead cross-functional projects, own data ingestion and search layers, and drive architectural changes for latency and reliability.

You will help scale to ingest terabytes of data daily and build expressions that power AI threat hunting workflows. You will work closely with stakeholders to deliver data solutions for internal and external customers and mentor junior engineers while promoting best practices and