Senior Software Engineer, Intelligence Services (US)

Centripetal; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A cybersecurity firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Intelligence Services team. This role involves developing innovative products leveraging AI and cloud technologies, contributing to a high-performing team, and ensuring continuous delivery of secure, scalable software. Candidates must have experience in both object-oriented and functional programming, particularly in cloud environments like GCP or AWS. This position offers flexibility with a hybrid or remote work setup.

Qualifications

• Experience with object-oriented and functional programming languages.
• Proven experience on any major cloud service platforms.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Strong functional programming skills, preferably in Clojure.

Responsibilities

• Develop back-end services for streaming data and microservices.
• Continuous delivery of software features through CI/CD pipeline.
• Build cloud-delivered security products leveraging intelligence.
• Collaborate in a high-performing product development team.

Skills

Object Oriented programming

Functional programming

REST interfaces

Cloud service platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)

AI integration

Kubernetes

Agile methods

GitOps

Event-Driven systems

MicroServices development

Database management

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CircleCI

Git

Docker

JUnit

Bash

Job description

Overview

Do you want to be at the forefront of intelligence-driven cybersecurity? We at Centripetal are innovators of disruptive cybersecurity solutions. Our CleanINTERNET managed service operationalizes billions of threat indicators in real-time to prevent over 90% of known threats against enterprise networks. Our customers love us for reducing their cybersecurity risks and enabling their security operations to be more proactive, focused and efficient. Our Intelligence Services is a group within Centripetal that analyzes cyber threat intelligence to envision and create new technologies that power our managed service offerings. We focus on bold ideas around how to leverage data in cyber defense and pursue strategic initiatives that aim to paradigm-shift the cybersecurity landscape. This position has an impactful role in helping visualize and operationalize the findings of Intelligence Services to create and deliver a cutting-edge user experience with actionable insights for our customers.

Position

Senior Software Engineer, Intelligence Services

Location

US (Hybrid or Remote)

Responsibilities

• Be a member of a high performing product development team
• Be a back-end engineer developing Kubernetes services for streaming data pipelines and application micro services
• Develop distributed software systems that enable analytics across many different cyber threat intelligence and data sources
• Build cloud-delivered cybersecurity products that leverage intelligence and data in innovative ways
• Work in a creative startup environment with a broad scope of ownership and high degree of autonomy
• Continuous delivery of features through CI/CD pipeline to production, delivering documented, maintainable, secure and testable code
• Contributing to innovation projects from research, ideation and incubation to scale and production
• Practicing trunk-based development by continuously integrating changes and commits with other team members
• Developing cloud-native software deployed on multi-cloud platforms
• Rapidly learning and applying leading edge technologies to new products

Experience and Qualifications

• Experience with Object Oriented and Functional programming languages. Knowledge about the strengths of different programming language paradigms
• Building clean consumable REST interfaces, having clearly negotiated the contract with consumers of that interface.
• Proven experience in developing applications on one or more of the major cloud service platforms: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure
• Experience in leveraging AI to increase your impact
• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and how applications are managed and deployed
• Practice Agile and DevOps methods such as pull-based systems (Kanban), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
• Familiarity with GitOps and how it can help with Continuous Delivery (like ArgoCD, FluxCD)
• Event-Driven or Message based systems like AMQP or Kafka
• Understands how to develop successfully functioning MicroServices from event-driven architectures (like Event Sourcing and CQRS)
• Product startup, small teams experience in Agile environments
• Comfortable working with different databases such as relational, NoSQL and search engines

Resume

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or closely related field
• Strong experience of functional programming (preferably Clojure)
• Strong CS skills such as data structures, algorithms, and problem solving
• Build and CI tools such as git, Gradle and CircleCI
• Solid familiarity with Linux based operating systems such as CentOS or RHEL
• Solid understanding of container-based applications (e.g. - how to build and run applications in a containerized environment like on docker)
• Testing tools such as JUnit, Spock or Clojure.test
• Scripting skills in Bash, Ruby, or Python

Some technologies and processes we use

• Clojure, Go, Python
• Databricks, PySPark
• Kafka, Kafka Streams, Warpstream
• Relational DB, Document Stores (e.g. ElasticSearch)
• GCP, AWS
• Kubernetes, Cloud Native
• AI tools
• CI/CD, CircleCI, GitOps, FluxCD