Tech Lead of Software Engineering

DataVisor; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Commuter Passes

Paid Time Off

Catered Lunch and Dinner

Team and Company Outings

Job summary

DataVisor is seeking an experienced Platform Engineering leader to design and scale the real-time detection platform. You will own streaming, storage, and training pipelines, and translate roadmaps into concrete technical plans.

The role demands hands-on leadership, architecture reviews, and mentorship to deliver high-impact fraud detection at scale. You will work across Product, TAM, and customer teams, ensuring robust operational health, risk assessment, and safe AI tool integration in

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of computer systems, relational databases, and SQL.
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and operating distributed real-time systems at scale.
• Proven ability to lead technical outcomes across a team.
• Strong verification discipline, validating model outputs against source code, logs, documentation, and production behavior.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with Java, Python, and Shell scripting.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience as a tech lead or similar role.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience building with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or MCP.
• Experience owning ML platforms or large-scale training pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Cassandra, Yugabyte, Flink, Spark, or Kafka.
• Experience with Spring Framework.
• Experience in fraud, risk, payments, or related domains.
• Deep production experience with distributed real-time systems at scale.
• Test-driven development.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the real-time detection platform, including streaming, storage, and training pipelines.
• Translate product and engineering roadmaps into clear technical plans, milestones, and execution priorities.
• Proactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and trade-offs before they impact delivery.
• Lead design and architecture reviews, make trade-off decisions, and document reasoning behind key decisions.
• Stay hands-on by coding, reviewing code, debugging issues, and supporting the team during production incidents.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for system design, code quality, and operational excellence.
• Own the operational health of the platform, including alert quality, on-call load, incident follow-through, and root-cause prevention.
• Partner with Product, TAM, and customer-facing teams on customer-impacting issues with clear impact assessment and next steps.
• Define how the team uses AI agents and AI-assisted tools in engineering workflows, including verification standards and safe usage practices.
• Build, evaluate, and improve LLM- and agent-assisted tools for engineering and operations use cases.

Skills

Relational databases

SQL

Java

Python

Shell scripting

Kubernetes

Cassandra

Yugabyte

Flink

Spark

Kafka

Distributed real-time systems

AI tooling

GitHub Copilot

Spring Framework

LLM APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

LLM tools

MCP

Job description

• As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will help build DataVisor’s next-generation machine learning platform, combining our proprietary unsupervised machine learning technology with supervised machine learning algorithms to power real-time fraud detection at scale
• As fraud attacks become increasingly sophisticated, real-time detection is more critical than ever
• Our platform team is responsible for designing and developing the architecture that makes scalable, real-time detection possible, including streaming systems, storage layers, and training pipelines that support our core detection capabilities
• We are looking for a creative, hands-on engineering leader to help expand our streaming and database systems, improve our core detection algorithms, and automate the end-to-end training process
• This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems, mentoring engineers, and driving technical execution in a high-impact environment
• Join us as we continue to push the boundaries of fraud detection, machine learning infrastructure, and large-scale data processing
• Own the technical direction of the real-time detection platform, including streaming, storage, and the training pipelines that support it
• Translate product and engineering roadmaps into clear technical plans, milestones, and execution priorities
• Proactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and trade-offs before they impact delivery
• Lead design and architecture reviews, make technical trade-off decisions, and document the reasoning behind key decisions
• Stay hands-on by coding, reviewing code, debugging issues, and supporting the team during production incidents
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for system design, code quality, operational excellence, and technical execution
• Own the operational health of the platform, including alert quality, on-call load, incident follow-through, and root-cause prevention
• Partner directly with Product, TAM, and customer-facing teams on customer-impacting issues, ensuring clear impact assessment, prioritization, ownership, and next steps
• Define how the team uses AI agents and AI-assisted tools in engineering workflows, including verification standards and safe usage practices
• Build, evaluate, and improve LLM- and agent-assisted tools for engineering and operations use cases, such as triage, root-cause analysis, alert summarization, and evaluation harnesses

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Commuter Passes
• Paid Time Off
• Catered Lunch and Dinner
• Team and Company Outings

Strong knowledge of computer systems, relational databases, and SQLDemonstrated use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools in real production workExperience designing, building, shipping, and operating distributed real-time systems at scaleProven ability to lead technical outcomes across a team, including work you did not personally implementStrong verification discipline, with the ability to validate model outputs against source code, logs, documentation, and production behaviorExperience building and optimizing multithreaded and concurrent applicationsAbility to set team-level standards for AI-assisted engineering, including how tools are used, how outputs are verified, and when AI-generated suggestions should be rejectedBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is requiredExperience with the Spring FrameworkDeep production experience with Java, along with working proficiency in Python and Shell scripting8+ years of software development experienceHands-on experience with Cassandra, Yugabyte, Flink, Spark, or Kafka2+ years of technical leadership experience as a tech lead, staff engineer, engineering manager, or similar roleExperience in fraud, risk, payments, financial services, or another domain where false negatives carry significant business or customer impactExperience owning ML platforms or large-scale training pipelinesExperience with KubernetesExperience building with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or MCPExperience hiring, managing, or mentoring engineersExperience writing evaluations or regression tests for non-deterministic systemsExperience with test-driven development