Senior Software Engineer - Data Team
TLDR
Work on high-scale data systems that ingest, transform, and serve massive volumes of security and IT data, while directly impacting enterprise customers with production-grade code.
Brinqa is the leading provider of unified cyber risk management and security analytics. Our software empowers companies to make cyber risk decisions across a wide range of platforms quickly and efficiently.
We help our customers’ cyber security and technology teams discover, prioritize and treat the most important risks based on real-time risk analytics, automated risk assessments, and remediation. With actionable insights and timely communications provided by our software, our customers are reducing their response times to the constantly changing and emerging threats and saving their business from potential negative and significant impacts.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Team—the group responsible for building the systems that power Brinqa’s core platform.
You’ll work on high-scale data systems that ingest, transform, and serve massive volumes of security and IT data. This is a hands-on role where you’ll own meaningful parts of the system, contribute to architecture decisions, and ship production-grade code that directly impacts enterprise customers.
If you enjoy solving complex data problems, working across the stack, and building systems that operate at scale, this role is for you.
What You’ll Work On
- Build and evolve high-throughput data pipelines (real-time and batch)
- Design systems for large-scale ingestion, transformation, and enrichment
- Develop APIs that expose data for advanced analytics and product features
- Contribute to distributed storage and compute architecture
- Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and performant at enterprise scale
What You’ll Own
- End-to-end delivery of features within the data platform
- Technical design decisions and trade-offs across data, compute, and storage layers
- Writing clean, testable, production-quality code
- Driving improvements in performance, scalability, and system reliability
How You’ll Work
- Collaborate closely with principal engineers and engineering leadership
- Participate in design discussions and influence technical direction
- Support and mentor other engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and best practices
AI-Driven Engineering
We actively use AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering velocity and quality. You’ll be expected to: - Use AI tools to accelerate development and problem-solving - Contribute to evolving best practices around AI-assisted workflows - Balance speed with quality through thoughtful application of these tools
What We’re Looking For
- 4–6 years of software engineering experience
- Experience building data-intensive or enterprise SaaS systems
- Strong proficiency in one or more: Java, Python, TypeScript
- Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure a plus)
- Ability to work across the stack and adapt as needed
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with data pipelines, ingestion systems, or analytics platforms
- Familiarity with distributed databases (e.g., Postgres, Yugabyte)
- Experience with streaming or event-driven architectures
- Exposure to multi-cloud environments
- Experience using AI tools in development workflows
Impact & Growth
- Work on systems that operate at enterprise scale
- Help shape the evolution of Brinqa’s data platform
- Grow into deeper ownership and technical leadership
- Gain experience in multi-cloud and AI-augmented engineering practices
HERE’S A LITTLE MORE ABOUT US
Brinqa was founded in 2008 by cybersecurity and technology veterans that witnessed first-hand the significant amount of time and people it took a company to manage the various tools and resources to protect the business from the ever evolving and changing world of cybersecurity.
Building a cybersecurity platform that connects all of the relevant IT, security, and business data resources to create a common data view with actionable insights would give companies a resource that would allow them to respond faster, smarter and more efficiently.
In June 2021, with a solid and effective product benefiting and significantly impacting Fortune 50 companies, Brinqa received its first and only institutionalized funding with Insight Partners. Investing $110M and a minority position in the business, Insight Partners provided Brinqa a way to provide their cybersecurity platform product to more enterprise companies by building their employee base with expertise in Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Professional Services and People.
It is an exciting time of growth and for individuals to make an immediate and lasting impact on the company and its market
We’re committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Brinqa - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels.
Brinqa builds software for unified cyber risk management and security analytics, aimed at helping companies navigate their cyber risk landscape. Our platform enables organizations to make informed decisions swiftly and effectively across various systems.