[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Blackpoint Cyber

Role Description

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will help solve complex technical and operational problems in the cybersecurity industry. Candidates will directly support Blackpoint's cybersecurity mission, helping to stop cyber-attacks, and protecting Blackpoint's rapidly growing customer base.

The Product Engineering team is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer who will thrive in a fast-paced, remote environment. In this role, you will be instrumental in building and scaling both the application-layer services and the underlying platform and data infrastructure that power our cybersecurity products — spanning full-stack development and platform/data engineering across multiple product teams. This position is ideal for someone who excels in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about developing robust, scalable systems that address complex cybersecurity challenges.

This role reports to the VP of Product Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for delivering on business-critical outcomes through your product contributions to our cybersecurity platform, defining and building world-class user experiences that delight all our Blackpoint customers and owning those experiences end-to-end.
• Lead and drive projects across the stack — TypeScript, React, and Node.js services hosted on Kubernetes — as well as the underlying data pipelines and platform infrastructure that support them.
• Lead architectural decisions for platform and data systems across ingestion, modeling, storage, and orchestration, including implementing patterns like the Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) where relevant.
• Design and maintain pipelines for onboarding new data domains and integrating them into product-facing services.
• Strengthen observability across services and pipelines — introducing metrics, lineage, SLAs/SLOs, and alerting.
• Leverage your deep understanding of design and architecture, along with best practices in design patterns, to optimize for performance, scale, and resiliency.
• Excel as a team player by recognizing the importance of diverse perspectives and managing expectations and needs across numerous cross-functional groups, including mentoring other engineers and leading them in complex, cross-functional projects.
• Communicate effectively with leadership to define technical solutions, aligning them with high-level business objectives and providing clear progress updates.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement AI-powered tools and practices that enhance development, testing, delivery, and observability — championing responsible use of AI to automate routine tasks and boost team productivity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in software or platform engineering, with demonstrated expertise delivering scalable, high-performance systems in fast-paced, enterprise-level environments.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as React, TypeScript, and a solid understanding of modern front-end architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Strong backend development skills with Node.js, including experience building and maintaining microservices architectures on Kubernetes.
• Cloud infrastructure & operations experience (AWS required; Azure/GCP helpful).
• Experience with data streaming & event-driven processing (Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming) and distributed ETL/batch processing.
• Expertise in designing and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL, or gRPC), with a focus on creating secure, scalable, and high-performance services.
• Strong understanding of database design, performance tuning, and indexing across both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases, as well as modern table formats (Iceberg, Parquet) where applicable.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, or similar), automating testing, deployment, and scaling of services.
• A deep understanding of security best practices, including securing APIs, handling sensitive data, and managing authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT).
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining rigorous code quality, security review, and architectural integrity.
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment with multiple releases a day.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment, with the ability to lead sprint planning and align team efforts with business objectives.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proven track record of diagnosing complex issues and implementing innovative approaches to overcome technical challenges.

Nice to have

• Experience with BI semantic layers, medallion architectures, or graph/search systems (e.g., Trino/Presto).
• Background in cybersecurity, SIEM, or event-driven systems.
• Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) frameworks.
• Experience evaluating and integrating LLM-based capabilities or AI features into production SaaS products.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum.

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans.
• Robust 401k plan.
• Discretionary Time Off.
• Other minor perks.
• Competitive benefits for international employees in accordance with local market standards and applicable country requirements.
• Equity participation is available to employees globally, with program details varying by location and employment structure.