Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Integration Team
Stellar Cyber3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$160k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own one or more integration domains from roadmap and architecture through delivery.
- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade microservice integrations using REST, GraphQL, streaming APIs, MCP, and LLM-powered automation.
- Evolve shared integration and parser frameworks, improving abstraction, performance, reliability, and testability.
- Design schema mappings, data normalization rules, and handling for ambiguous or malformed security data.
- Partner with detection and data teams to support downstream analytics and detection use cases.
- Use AI tools and scripting to accelerate development, testing, deployments, monitoring, incident triage, parser regression testing, and schema diffing.
- Mentor junior engineers through design discussions and code reviews and champion effective AI adoption across the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of backend software development experience, including integration, data parsing, or log processing, and at least 1 year as a technical lead or equivalent full-project ownership experience.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Java, or C++, with production-quality coding experience.
- Experience designing and integrating APIs, including REST, GraphQL, OAuth, API keys, and rate limiting.
- Understanding of JSON, XML, CSV, syslog, key-value data, unstructured text, regular expressions, data normalization, and schema design.
- Demonstrated regular production use of AI tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT, with sound judgment about AI-generated output.
- Strong problem-solving skills and communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred: cybersecurity experience with SOAR, EDR, SIEM, XDR, firewalls, IDS/IPS, or cloud security services.
- Preferred: production microservices, large-scale data processing, real-time pipelines, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, message queues, orchestration frameworks, cloud platforms, logging services, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or AI service integrations.
- Preferred: experience with Kafka, Spark, RabbitMQ, Celery, Airflow, AWS, Azure, GCP, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Cloud Logging, LLM APIs, embedding services, MCP, function calling, agent orchestration frameworks, or AI-assisted log analysis and parser generation.
Benefits
- Pre-IPO stock options, medical, dental and vision coverage, life insurance, 401(k), employee assistance program, employee discount program, paid time off, referral program, and rewards and recognition program.
- Full-time remote role in the United States, with successful finalists invited to an on-site interview.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureC++DockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLHelmJavaKubernetesPythonRabbitMQ
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About Stellar Cyber
Stellar Cyber builds an open security operations platform that unifies AI-driven SIEM, NDR, and Open XDR for enterprises, managed security service providers, and public-sector teams. The company sells subscription software that ingests logs and network data to detect, correlate, and respond to threats across on-premises and cloud environments. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Stellar Cyber is privately held and broadly adopted by MSSPs.