Principal Software Engineer, Backend Developer

Why Carbon Black?

At Carbon Black, you’ll have the opportunity to make a huge impact while working alongside a global community of passionate people who are leading the way in cutting-edge technology. Our valued employees across the world have made Carbon Black a Top Place to Work, as named by the Boston Globe for two consecutive years.

Our Product team is moving at lightning speed on the breaking edge of technology. You’ll be pulling things apart and tinkering, building new platforms, or playing in the cloud. Here, the engineering opportunities are endless. With this fast-paced, synergetic group, you’ll be working together and across the organization to ensure customer success all while continuing to build a product that protects their dearest assets.

Why You Matter

We are looking for a versatile and experienced Principal backend engineer. You’ll work cross-functionally with UI, Backend and Dev-ops engineering teams, and have frequent opportunity to obtain feedback directly from people who work in the dynamically evolving software security field. This is a key technical role on a high performing agile team.

Backend engineers will help define and build the next generation of end point security applications. This is more than a chance to write amazing code with talented peers. It is a chance to have a huge impact on how hundreds of companies and governments visualize and neutralize threats to their networks. This is where global politics meet your code and the people who it empowers. Join us to make something that matters.

What You’ll Bring

As a Principal backend engineer at Carbon Black, you’ll build a highly scalable and reliable system to process and store terabytes of data. You will have tons of room to grow, but we have some starting requirements that we want to see in you:

• 8-10 years of experience developing server side applications
• Comfortable using Java and relational databases
• Expert knowledge of messaging systems like JMS, AMQP, SQS
• Experience building Restful APIs
• Experience with a NoSQL data store is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of GIT, SVN, including branching and pull requests
• Experience with a distributed stream processing framework is a plus
• Experience with a distributed batch processing framework is a plus
• Commitment to working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Ability to break down goals and objectives into a reliable work plan
• Ability to mentor junior developers
• Independent initiative within shared team goals

What You’ll Do

• Work on solutions to process and store terabytes of data
• Build a backend data processing pipeline that is resilient to failures and is highly scalable
• Build a distributed application to process a lot of streaming data
• Build Restful APIs to query terabytes of data
• Participate in all phases of the software development cycle
• Proactively move the technology base to use latest tools and frameworks
• Interact with front end, Dev-ops & quality assurance engineers
• Support and maintain existing production code in the field and develop and deliver new enhancements and products to our client base

Who We Are

Carbon Black has designed the most complete next-gen endpoint security platform, enabling organizations to stop the most attacks, see every threat, close security gaps, and evolve their defenses. The Cb Endpoint Security Platform helps organizations of all sizes replace legacy antivirus technology, lock down systems, and arm incident response teams with advanced tools to proactively hunt down threats. Today, Carbon Black has approximately 2,000 worldwide customers, including 25 of the Fortune 100 and more than 600 employees. Carbon Black was voted Best Endpoint Protection by security professionals in the SANS Institute’s Best of 2015 Awards.

Carbon Black is an Equal Opportunity Employer.