Remote Senior Rust/Scala Security Backend Engineer

Halcyon; United States; A distancia; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Comprehensive healthcare

401k plan with employer contribution

Disability & life insurance

FSA options

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Generous equity

Descripción de la vacante

Halcyon, a remote-native cybersecurity startup, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the cloud team and lead the development of our data platform and API services in a Scala and Rust stack.

The role emphasizes ownership of backend services, with opportunities to guide migration to Rust and contribute to a security analysis platform that includes malware analysis engines, threat detection, and ML workflows.

Formación

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with recent experience in a JVM-based codebase.
• Experience designing and owning distributed systems from start to finish.
• Experience with Rust, or a well-formed view of when it's the right tool, and the ability to help guide a migration.
• Strong understanding of APIs, messaging systems (Kafka), and modern data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, OpenSearch).
• Experience building services in a cloud-native environment, preferably AWS.
• Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.
• Comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the design and delivery of features across our 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, keeping them reliable, secure, and performant.
• Help shape and execute our migration of selected APIs from Scala to Rust, ensuring consistency and continuity along the way.
• Set the bar for code quality, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and take part in on-call and incident response.
• Support and enhance our Python-based security analysis platform, including malware analysis engines, automated threat detection, and machine learning model workflows.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Rust

APIs, Kafka, data stores

AWS

Containers & Kubernetes

Remote-first / asynchronous

Python development (security analysis)

Herramientas

Databricks

ClickHouse

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Halcyon, a remote-native cybersecurity startup, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the cloud team and lead the development of our data platform and API services in a Scala and Rust stack.

The role emphasizes ownership of backend services, with opportunities to guide migration to Rust and contribute to a security analysis platform that includes malware analysis engines, threat detection, and ML workflows.