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Backend Engineer, Data Platform & APIs Job
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to feature development across our data platform and public API services, including ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of security data.
- Collaborate with product and platform engineers to align on system design, architecture, and data flow.
- Develop, test, deploy, and monitor Scala-based backend services that are reliable, secure, and performant.
- Support our gradual migration of certain APIs from Scala to C#, ensuring consistency and continuity.
- Design systems with identity management and authorization best practices in mind; hands-on experience with OIDC or SAML providers is a plus.
- Maintain high standards for code quality, documentation, and operational reliability.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and incident response.
Skills and Qualifications:
- 3–6 years of backend engineering experience, with recent experience in a jvm-based codebase.
- Familiarity with functional programming patterns and idiomatic Scala.
- Exposure to C# or interest in learning it as part of a migration path.
- Experience integrating with Identity Providers such as Okta, Auth0, or Keycloak.
- 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.
Bonus Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
- Prior work in security products, data pipelines, or high-availability systems.
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