Senior Data Engineer

Imagine a world dedicated to Security without Compromise. Synack, headquartered in Silicon Valley with regional offices around the world, protects leading global organizations by reducing companies’ security risk and increasing their resistance to cyber attack. How do we do this? By utilizing the world’s best and most trusted team of ethical hackers who test through our powerful and controlled platform to deliver real security without compromise.

At Synack, we aren’t afraid to think outside the box or take on big challenges. Backed by top-tier venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Microsoft, and Google Ventures, Synack's mission is to leverage global security talent coupled with advanced technology to help enterprises discover security vulnerabilities before they become business problems. Discover the possibilities at Synack!

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Senior Data Engineer to build products that will revolutionize cyber security. Working in the Cloud and using DevOps principles, you will process data to improve visibility into our Red Team’s activity, and enhance the ratings method measuring the security standing of our Clients.  Sounds interesting?  Keep reading…

Here’s what you’ll do

• Build high availability data processing pipelines using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer (Airflow), BigQuery and other Google Cloud Platform capabilities
• Support existing production products including APIs, relational databases and NoSQL document stores
• Maintain and extend the infrastructure as code (Terraform based) implementation of the data platform–if you don’t know Terraform, you can learn it here 
• Build innovative analytics and proof of concept ideas and the development of dashboards and interactive applications using Apache Superset
• Make use of a wide variety of tools, data storage solutions and programming languages
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers across the company to refine product requirements for our data platform
• Contribute to the development of Data Analytics, Machine Learning models and application of AI to address real world problems
• Deliver new capabilities as part of journey teams to build new products and participate in Agile ceremonies

Here's what you'll need

• 5+ years of experience designing and building dynamic data production solutions (e.g. data pipelines, APIs, managing databases)
• Experience on using various database systems such as PostgreSQL, NoSQL document storage and OLAP databases (BigQuery, Clickhouse) along with their performance optimization 
• 3+ years of experience in a Python development environment
• 3+ years experience of using SQL language in production environments 
• Experience with unit and integration tests, and Agile software development practices using Git
• Experience with DevOps processes such as CICD deployment process, and preferably infrastructure as code and with Terraform as well
• Familiarity with cloud services, preferably GCP, as well as tools like Apache Airflow, Kubernetes and Docker preferred

It’s all hands on deck, it’s hard work, it’s winning, it’s Synack. Join us!

Synack is committed to embracing diversity. Our people are our strength.  Each addition to our team is an opportunity to grow and diversify our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints. We strive to be inclusive of Race, Ethnicity, Religion, Sex, LGBTQ+, Veterans, Disabilities, and Age.  Synack welcomes you!