Data Platform Engineer | Halcyon | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What we do:</strong><br />
<!-- -->Halcyon is the industry’s first dedicated, adaptive security platform that combines multiple proprietary advanced prevention engines along with AI models focused specifically on stopping ransomware.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who we are:</strong><br />
<!-- -->Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), Fireye and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a remote-native, completely distributed global team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we’ll work a plan to meet your needs.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">The Role:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon’s goal is to deliver an anti-ransomware solution that breaks new ground as to what a security product can deliver. Aligned with this goal, Halcyon is looking for an experienced engineer to contribute to the development of our cloud applications and specifically our data platform and cloud infrastructure which provide the foundation for the solution. Our data platform provides our other cloud engineering teams the foundation upon which we build all of our cloud solutions.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Feature Development:</strong> Assist in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of new and existing data platform features.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Developer Experience:</strong> Enhance the experience for developers within the team, ensuring a productive and collaborative environment.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Collaboration with Product Teams:</strong> Work closely with product managers. Align data platform functionality with product vision and user needs, ensuring consistency across platforms.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Interface with API and Applications Teams:</strong> Coordinate with API and cloud applications developers. Ensure that the needs of the API and Cloud Applications teams are being met by the data platform.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Team Building and Expansion:</strong> Actively participate in the recruitment and growth of the Data Platform development team.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Code Quality:</strong> Maintain high standards for code quality and documentation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Innovation and Continuous Improvement:</strong> Continuously explore new techniques and tools to improve development processes.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">System Reliability Experience</strong>: Design for sustainable reliability and monitor the data platform for issues or degradation and respond appropriately and responsibly</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Skills and Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience building data processing platforms using a modern programming language and common data processing libraries</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience interfacing with a variety of databases and data stores</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with streaming data processing</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience deploying infrastructure and applications in AWS</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience collaborating with other engineering teams on integration and architectural design</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes with Helm (or similar tooling)</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Skills and Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience building data processing applications in Scala/Kotlin/Java or Rust</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with Terraform, GitLab, and/or ArgoCD</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Postgres, DynamoDB, and/or Kafka</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k plan with a generous employer contribution.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Medical and dependent care FSA options.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible PTO policy.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Parental leave.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Generous equity offering.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Base Salary Range</strong>: $180,000 – $210,000</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Target:</strong> 10%</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.</strong></p>
<!-- -->Halcyon is the industry’s first dedicated, adaptive security platform that combines multiple proprietary advanced prevention engines along with AI models focused specifically on stopping ransomware.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who we are:</strong><br />
<!-- -->Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), Fireye and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a remote-native, completely distributed global team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we’ll work a plan to meet your needs.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">The Role:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon’s goal is to deliver an anti-ransomware solution that breaks new ground as to what a security product can deliver. Aligned with this goal, Halcyon is looking for an experienced engineer to contribute to the development of our cloud applications and specifically our data platform and cloud infrastructure which provide the foundation for the solution. Our data platform provides our other cloud engineering teams the foundation upon which we build all of our cloud solutions.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Feature Development:</strong> Assist in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of new and existing data platform features.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Developer Experience:</strong> Enhance the experience for developers within the team, ensuring a productive and collaborative environment.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Collaboration with Product Teams:</strong> Work closely with product managers. Align data platform functionality with product vision and user needs, ensuring consistency across platforms.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Interface with API and Applications Teams:</strong> Coordinate with API and cloud applications developers. Ensure that the needs of the API and Cloud Applications teams are being met by the data platform.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Team Building and Expansion:</strong> Actively participate in the recruitment and growth of the Data Platform development team.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Code Quality:</strong> Maintain high standards for code quality and documentation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Innovation and Continuous Improvement:</strong> Continuously explore new techniques and tools to improve development processes.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">System Reliability Experience</strong>: Design for sustainable reliability and monitor the data platform for issues or degradation and respond appropriately and responsibly</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Skills and Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience building data processing platforms using a modern programming language and common data processing libraries</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience interfacing with a variety of databases and data stores</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with streaming data processing</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience deploying infrastructure and applications in AWS</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience collaborating with other engineering teams on integration and architectural design</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes with Helm (or similar tooling)</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Skills and Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience building data processing applications in Scala/Kotlin/Java or Rust</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with Terraform, GitLab, and/or ArgoCD</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Postgres, DynamoDB, and/or Kafka</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k plan with a generous employer contribution.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Medical and dependent care FSA options.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible PTO policy.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Parental leave.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Generous equity offering.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Base Salary Range</strong>: $180,000 – $210,000</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Bonus Target:</strong> 10%</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.</strong></p>