[Remote] Backend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nebulock is an agentic threat hunting platform that autonomously surfaces behaviors from various data sources. As a Backend Engineer, you will own the core systems that form the foundation of Nebulock, focusing on data ingestion, transformation, and search layers to enhance threat hunting and detection workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable systems that ingest and process large volumes of security telemetry (TBs / day)
- Own integrations across a wide range of data sources (EDR, IAM, Cloud, SaaS)
- Own the transformation layer that turns disparate data into a normalized, enriched, and queryable model
- Build an engine that correlates entities across disparate data sources
- Develop and operate both real-time and batch processing systems
- Work on core search capabilities across vast amounts of data
- Collaborate with our internal detection engineers, threat hunters, and product engineers to ensure the Nebulock platform has the data it needs and that the data is structured correctly
- Help drive the architecture and technical direction of Neublock’s platform
Skills
- 4+ years of experience building backend distributed systems and working with data
- Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, Rust, or similar
- Experience with either AWS or GCP
- Strong experience with data pipelines
- Experience with event-driven systems
- Strong understanding of system design, data modeling, and performance trade-offs
- Experience with OLAP databases
- Ability to adapt, iterate, and ship quickly
- Hunger for growth and the desire to work in a low-ego environment
- Experience with streaming data processing engines (i.e. Flink)
- Experience building or working with search systems over large datasets
- Cybersecurity experience
- Startup experience
Benefits
- A dynamic startup environment with opportunities for rapid career growth
- A collaborative culture that values innovation and creativity
- Competitive salary and equity options
- Comprehensive benefits package (including 401K)
- Opportunities to travel for conferences, workshops, and team-building events
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