Software Engineer (Python)

About

We are seeking a mid level Software Engineer to join a Cybersecurity Engineering team focused on building detection tools and data pipelines that enrich security findings for downstream consumers. This role will be supporting the development of a new detector and an associated pipeline. The team builds backend systems that ingest, normalize, enrich, and surface security signals at scale across cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and pipelines for security detection and enrichment
• Develop and operate data ingestion and processing pipelines that support detection tooling
• Write clean, maintainable, production quality Python code
• Contribute to system design discussions and implementation for medium complexity services
• Use AI coding tools as part of day to day development while maintaining high code quality
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• Deploy and operate services across cloud platforms
• Review code and system designs, providing thoughtful feedback and improvements
• Collaborate closely with engineers across cybersecurity and platform teams

Must Have Skills

• Strong Python development experience
• Hands on experience with Terraform
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid software engineering fundamentals (data structures, control flow, testing, debugging)
• Experience building backend services and APIs
• Comfort working across development, deployment, and operational concerns
• Ability to write and review production quality code

Nice to Have Skills

• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, and/or VMware
• Experience working on cybersecurity software or application level security projects
• Experience designing and consuming APIs
• Experience with data pipelines or detection systems
• Prior experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar

Experience Level

• Targeting 5–8 years of experience
• Open to strong engineers with 3–4 years if they demonstrate high technical ability