Principal Data Architect (Backend Software Engineer)
Oleria
Software Engineering, IT
Bellevue, WA, USA
Posted on Nov 14, 2024
Job Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Backend Software Engineer with strong data architecture capabilities to optimize our cloud identity security, B2B SaaS products dealing with petabytes of data and millions of transactions per second.
About Oleria
About Oleria
Oleria is an enterprise cybersecurity startup founded by industry veterans, backed by over $43M in funding. We're on a mission to transform access control for enterprise cloud applications, using cutting-edge AI and graph technology to combat identity-based attacks and data breaches.
Oleria was founded by notable industry senior leaders Jim Alkove and Jagadeesh Kunda, with deep security, data, and SaaS experience building and securing some of the world’s largest platforms and products used by billions of people worldwide every day. Oleria has received over $43M in funding from Evolution Equity Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Tapestry VC, Zscaler, and other technology luminaries.
We recognize that identity-based attacks on cloud applications are becoming increasingly common, highlighting the importance of addressing access risks to prevent data breaches. Traditional access management methods are human-intensive and often have significant blind spots, making it challenging to manage access risks effectively. At Oleria, we are on a mission to revolutionize access control solutions for enterprise cloud applications, aiming to reduce the opportunity and scope of data breaches.
Our esteemed target customers consist of Fortune 500 corporations and public sector organizations, making your contributions vital to improving the security of data for millions of people around the world.
Your Strengths & The Job Responsibilities
- Backend Development: You’re an expert backend software engineer and will lead the design, development, and optimization of microservices, RESTful APIs, and ETL processes.
- Cloud Data: You harness the power of cloud platforms (especially AWS) to build efficient and cost-effective data solutions, leveraging services like S3, Redshift, EMR, and Glue.
- Data Architecture: You possess deep expertise in designing, building, and managing large-scale, distributed data architectures, with a focus on security, scalability, and performance, and will lead Lead data architecture, data engineering, data modeling, and data warehousing initiatives.
- Data Modeling & Governance: You excel at data modeling, and establishing data governance frameworks to ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance.
- Problem Solving & Optimization: Complex data challenges excite you. You dissect them with creativity, logic, and find elegant solutions to optimize data pipelines and queries for maximum efficiency.
- Data Architecture: Lead data architecture, data engineering, data modeling, and data warehousing initiatives.
- Performance Optimization: You thrive on driving cost reduction, faster processing times, and efficient data ingestion and will lead these efforts for Oleria.
- ••AI/ML: You understand how to prepare and optimize data for use in AI/ML applications and will collaborate with the broader team to deliver successful trained model deployments.
Required Skills
- 10+ years experience in backend software engineering, particularly with microservices and APIs.
- Deep understanding of data architecture principles and best practices.
- Strong data modeling and data warehousing skills.
- Expertise in ETL optimization and data pipeline development.
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and data preparation techniques.
- Proven ability to optimize systems for cost and performance.
- Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS, with knowledge of S3, Redshift, EMR, and Glue.
- Strong programming language skills (Python, Java, Go) and willing to work in Go
- NoSQL and SQL experience
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Big Data Technology Experience (Hadoop, other)
- Experience with Graph Databases
What We Offer
- Industry-competitive compensation
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for individuals, plus generous contributions toward dependent plan premiums
- Company-paid Life, STD, and LTD insurance
- 12 weeks fully-paid parental leave for all new parents
- Flexible PTO policy
- 13 paid holidays in the US
The base annual compensation range being offered for this role depending on individual candidate level and experience is $180,000 to $240,000 and it provides an opportunity to participate in equity ownership of our technology startup.