Senior Data Engineer

About the position

You will be responsible for helping us surface and evaluate the data that Smithy collects and correlate what we know with the target organisation’s internal structure. You will be involved in the entire product development life cycle including design, development, deployment and maintenance of new and existing features. You’ll work closely with the rest of the team to ensure system consistency and to create a great user experience. Ultimately, you’ll be the driving force behind all back-end activities related to data evaluation.

About you

We are looking for someone with the ability to grow fast, a lifelong learner who wants to develop their skills. If you can learn fast, do not worry if you don’t fit all of these:

1. You are an expert with at least one programming language preferably Python but also Go is acceptable.
2. You are proficient with SQL.
3. You have a good understanding of maths and/or statistics.
4. You can make sense of unprocessed data in data lakes. You have a good understanding of how to ingest, process and analyse this data.
5. You can present your data findings to stakeholders and help drive decision-making.
6. You are analytical, self-motivated and good at time management.
7. You have great communication and problem-solving skills.
8. You are curious about new technologies, and you find ways to implement them in your work.
9. You keep your knowledge up to date about technical innovations and industry news.
10. You have great problem-solving skills, and you work well in a team.
11. You are proactive and can oversee and drive projects forward.
12. You are familiar with working with disparate data sources.
13. [Optional] You have developed web applications before.
14. [Optional] You worked with Docker before.
15. [Optional] You know how to write GitHub Actions.
16. [Optional] You have experience with Go.

We work as a team

We work in-office 4 days a week. Try to eliminate silos and learn from each other as much as possible. We communicate a lot and try to maintain a balance between verbal communication, working puns into RFCs and deep work.

Why join us?

Innovative Technology 💡
Be a part of creating the workflow engine for security tooling, a game-changer that will redefine security processes globally.

Open-Core Advantage ❤️
We <3 open-source! Not only do we rely on and contribute to other open-source projects but our own product has an open-core as well.

Proactive Environment 📣
We value initiative and ownership. Your voice matters, and your ideas will shape the future of security technology, you are joining us to provide expert advice.

Development Opportunities 🎓
Invest in your growth with a personal and professional development budget to keep your skills sharp. Everyone in the team gets support to join communities, talk in conferences and do any other self-development activity they need.

World-Class Team 👫
Join a team with a proven track record – the people behind the world’s largest security knowledge graph, the most used cybersecurity chatbot and presenters at events like DEFCON and BlackHat.

Benefits ✨
We also offer a variety of benefits, such as generous compensation, stock options, regular team off-site events, flexible hours and being an early employee in an awesome company.

Hiring Process

We try to move fast and our hiring process respects your time. If we are a match you will be with us after a 3-step process. Send us your CV by email on [email protected] and we can start a conversation.

Step 1
30’ coffee or chat so we can introduce each other and see if our expectations align.

Step 2 You’ll have to complete a 2h take home challenge on a real world problem involving leveraging different vulnerability databases to enrich our vulnerability reports.

Step 3
Onsite interview where we’ll talk about your challenge and ask some followup question.

Then we’ll have a tailored ETL systems design interview and a short cultural interview with the team.

About Smithy

We create Open Core cybersecurity tools and orchestration. Our first solution is a security workflow engine that makes it easy to automatically run any security tool and integrate it into any organisation. We care about improving the day-to-day experience of our users, massively improving the efficiency of any security professional and reducing burnout and repetitive tasks of our customers.

We are a team of curious engineers, passionate about learning and finding innovative ways to change the world with tech. Since we got funded a few months ago we have been growing fast and are now looking for a Data Specialist to help us set new standards in how companies manage and interact with their security workflows.

Apply now

Send us your CV by email on [email protected] and we’ll get back to you shortly.