Principal Software Architect - Data Platform

SecurityScorecard
Austin
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 240,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical writing","Mentorship","Influence without authority","Distributed systems judgment","Architectural decision-making"]

Own end-to-end system design for a cybersecurity ratings data platform, from internet-scale ingestion through analytical serving. Architect data contracts, lakehouse storage, and an isolated serving layer for low-latency customer queries, internal analytics and data science exploration, and bulk partner delivery. Drive correctness, reproducibility, and engineered data quality/observability, set technical direction via TDRs and design docs, and influence architecture across teams through rigorous reviews and prototyping.

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Principal Software Architect - Data Platform

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end system design for a cybersecurity ratings data platform, from internet-scale ingestion through analytical serving. Architect data contracts, lakehouse storage, and an isolated serving layer for low-latency customer queries, internal analytics and data science exploration, and bulk partner delivery. Drive correctness, reproducibility, and engineered data quality/observability, set technical direction via TDRs and design docs, and influence architecture across teams through rigorous reviews and prototyping.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end system design for the data platform, from ingestion through the serving layer.
  • •Define service boundaries and data contracts between producers and consumers, including schema ownership and compatibility rules.
  • •Design lakehouse storage (table formats, partitioning strategy, schema evolution, compaction, and metadata growth).
  • •Architect an analytical serving layer for three workload classes with conflicting demands (customer product queries, internal analytics/data science exploration, and bulk partner/external feeds).
  • •Set direction via TDRs, design docs, and standards; review architecture proposals and mentor senior/staff engineers on data system design.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 240,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software or data engineering experience, with significant time architecting large-scale data platforms.
  • •Deep expertise in stream and batch processing at scale using Kafka, Flink, and Spark (or close equivalents), and strong judgment on workload-to-path selection.
  • •Strong Python and PySpark, solid Java for Flink stream processing, and enough Scala to read and reason about an existing Spark codebase.
  • •Hands-on production experience designing lakehouse storage (e.g., Parquet and Iceberg), including partitioning, compaction, and schema evolution.
  • •Experience architecting OLAP/analytical serving layers and distributed systems fundamentals, with a track record building data quality, contracts, and observability in code.
Experience:10+ yearsCybersecuritySaaSData platforms
Skills:Technical writingMentorshipInfluence without authorityDistributed systems judgmentArchitectural decision-making
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Node.jsTypeScriptReactPostgreSQLClickHouseKafkaFlinkSparkPythonPySparkJavaScalaIcebergParquetDruidPinotBigQuerySnowflakeC++AWS

Company Brief

SecurityScorecard
Provides a cybersecurity ratings platform that continuously assesses and monitors organizations' and third-party vendors' security posture using external data and analytics to help enterprises manage risk, prioritize remediation, and inform vendor risk decisions.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2013
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