Senior Software Engineer

About Us

Funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody's, Sequoia Capital, GV, Riverwood Capital, and others with over $290 million in funding, SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over 2M+ companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard's patented rating technology is used by over 16,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, board reporting, due diligence, and cyber insurance underwriting. This is done by measuring your and your vendors' cyber-health by assigning a security rating of "A" through "F" based on outside-in, non-intrusive data. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.

SecurityScorecard is headquartered in NYC with over 400 employees globally. Our culture has helped us be recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace," "Best Places to Work in NYC" by Crain's NY, and one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in NY for two years in a row.

Position Summary

The Senior Data Analytics Engineer will build meaningful analytics that inform companies of security risk. You will be working closely with our Data Science team, implementing algorithms and managing the analytic pipeline. We have over 1 PB of data, so the ideal candidate will have experience processing and querying large amounts of data.

Responsibilities

• Manage the analytic pipeline using Spark, Hadoop, etc
• Leverage cutting-edge technologies to support new and existing and services and processes.
• Quickly and efficiently design and implement in an agile environment
• Work with other team members to implement consistent architecture
• Drive projects through all stages of development
• Actively share knowledge and responsibility with other team members and teams
• Improve the effective output of the engineering team by managing quality, and identifying inconsistencies.

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (CS, EE or Math preferred) or equivalent work experience as well as interest in a fast paced, complex environment.
• 5+ years of experience Scala or another functional language experience in a commercial environment (highly preferred)
• 3+ Experience with Spark, and the Hadoop ecosystem and similar frameworks
• Familiarity with various tools such as AWS and Docker and an instinct for automation
• Expert in SQL
• Strong understanding of Software Architecture principles and patterns.
• Experience working with 3rd party software and libraries, including open source
• Experience with Postgres

Traits:

• Quick-thinker who takes ownership and pride in their work
• A commitment and drive for excellence and continual improvement
• A strong sense of adventure, excitement and enthusiasm.
• Excellent systems analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills

We offer a competitive salary, stock options, a comprehensive benefits package, including health and dental insurance, unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursements, and much more!

SecurityScorecard embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skillsets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based upon merit and do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.