Software Engineer, Data Stores

About Us:

Forter is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Data Stores team. We are looking for a proactive, detail-oriented individual to maintain large scale database solutions that are the core of Forter’s products. If you are passionate about database solutions and want to contribute to a dynamic and innovative team, we would love to hear from you.

About the team:

Forter’s Datastores team builds and operates the database platform that supports our fraud detection products and internal systems. Our databases handle petabytes of data and ingest terabytes of new data every day, with strict requirements around scalability, low latency, high throughput, and geo-distribution. These systems are foundational to the Machine Learning models that power Forter’s real-time risk decisions.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Software Engineer, who has strong foundations in software and systems engineering, a good understanding of databases, and a desire to grow into an expert in large-scale data platforms.

This role is ideal for someone who has professional experience with production systems, and wants to work closely with senior engineers to learn how to design, build, and operate database platforms at global scale.

You will start by contributing to well-defined projects and operational work, and progressively take on more ownership as you grow your skills and confidence.

What you will be doing:

• Help implement and maintain database solutions, working with senior engineers on design and reviews.
• Contribute to day-to-day operations of our data stores: running playbooks, improving runbooks, handling routine changes, and helping with incident follow-ups.
• Build and improve tooling and automation for monitoring, deployments, schema changes, and data migrations.
• Participate in performance and cost optimization efforts, such as analyzing query patterns, and improving resource usage, under guidance from senior teammates.
• Learn how we design for reliability: observability, backup and restore, replication, capacity planning, and incident response.
• Collaborate closely with application teams to understand their data access patterns and help provide the right database solutions for their needs.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the availability and performance of our database systems.

What you’ll bring

We don’t expect you to be an expert in everything on day one. We’re looking for strong foundations, potential, and a willingness to learn. You’re likely to be a good match if you have:

• Programming and scripting skills - Ability to write and maintain scripts or tools in Bash, Python, or Go to automate routine tasks and integrate systems.
• Cloud and Linux experience
  • Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider.
  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment and debugging common issues.
• Teamwork and ownership
  • Experience working in a team setting with practices like code reviews, task planning, and shipping to production.
  • Strong problem-solving mindset, attention to detail, and clear communication.
• Growth mindset
  • Curiosity about how large-scale systems work, and a willingness to dive into unfamiliar technologies with guidance.
  • Enthusiasm for learning from on-call incidents and postmortems, and eventually joining a shared on-call rotation once ramped up.
• AI and automation
  • Familiarity with using AI-assisted engineering tools (for example, claude code, codex, github copilot) and an interest in leveraging them on a daily basis to design, operate, and optimize large-scale data systems.

Nice to Have:

• Foundations in databases and distributed systems
• Experience using relational or NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of core concepts like indexing, transactions, replication, consistency, and basic query optimization.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and bonus plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve.  Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact. 

Trust is backed by data –  Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including: 

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023) 
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.