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Senior Big Data EngineerJob Description: We are seeking a Senior Big Data Engineer to design, build, and operate core components of the data platform and pipeline architecture behind Qualys' Enterprise TruRisk Platform, processing billions of daily transactions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data platform and pipeline components using Spark and Kafka.
- Debug, tune, and optimize Spark jobs and Kafka pipelines to manage growing data volumes.
- Collaborate with product, professional services, and sales engineering teams on architecture design and technical trade-offs.
- Establish and refine technical standards, system documentation, and best practices across the engineering team.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on complex technical issues and pipeline performance.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data engineering or big data platform development.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and optimizing distributed pipelines using Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.
- Hands-on experience scaling data platform infrastructure to process high-volume/high-throughput transaction workloads.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with high-volume, multi-tenant enterprise platform environments.
- Proficiency in Scala, Java, or Python for data processing applications.
- Proven experience mentoring junior or mid-level engineering team members.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data engineering or big data platform development
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- Designing, building, and optimizing distributed pipelines using Apache Spark and Apache Kafka
- Hands-on experience scaling data platform infrastructure to process high-volume/high-throughput transaction workloads
- Experience working with high-volume, multi-tenant enterprise platform environments
- Proficiency in Scala, Java, or Python for data processing applications
- Proven experience mentoring junior or mid-level engineering team members
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Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
