Backend Engineer

at  Forcepoint

Who is Forcepoint?
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

What will you do?

• Take ownership on feature delivery from design through development and testing to full scale deployment.
• Lead by being a role model of engineering excellence delivering products in high quality and cadence.
• Collaborate to solve problems and overcome design challenges with team/scrum members and colleagues.

What experience or knowledge should you bring?

• BSc in Computer Science/ related field
• 10+ years of experience with Java server-side technologies
• 4+ years of experience with AWS technologies
• Experience as an architect/tech lead.
• Proven experience in designing and managing (owning!) Data related infrastructure (Data lakes, ETL pipelines, etc.)
• Demonstrated knowledge of design and implementation of large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with big data databases e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB or Elasticsearch.
• Experience with relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL

Advantage:

• Great interpersonal skills.
• Experience with one of the following technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.
• Experience in Security.
• Experience in Python

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.
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• Take ownership on feature delivery from design through development and testing to full scale deployment.
• Lead by being a role model of engineering excellence delivering products in high quality and cadence.
• Collaborate to solve problems and overcome design challenges with team/scrum members and colleagues