Technical Director of Platform

Blackpoint Cyber is a provider of leading-edge cybersecurity threat hunting, detection, and response technology. Blackpoint was founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts that applied their expertise to bring nation/state grade technologies to commercial customers around the world

What You’ll Do

Blackpoint Cyber is a provider of leading-edge cybersecurity threat hunting, detection, and response technology. Blackpoint was founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts that applied their expertise to bring nation/state grade technologies to commercial customers around the world.

Reporting directly to the VP of Platform, the engineering team is seeking an experienced Technical Director of Platform who will thrive in a fast-paced remote environment. The ideal candidate for this role will contribute to the teams' goal of delivering great technology using modern tools and platforms. This candidate should be truly excited about building great products and winning the unfair fight in Cyber.

What You’ll Bring:

Required:

• 5+ years professional experience with modern microservice architecture

• Experience running a distributed team

• Expert knowledge of TypeScript

• Expert knowledge of JavaScript / Node.js

• Experience maintaining semantically versioned NPM packages; open source is a plus 

• Advanced knowledge of microservice concepts and design patterns

• Advanced knowledge of performance optimization concepts such as time complexity

Nice to Have:

• Advanced knowledge of advanced SQL and NoSQL concepts

• Advanced knowledge of Kafka or similar enterprise message bus

• Experience with Redis or similar key/value store

• Strong working knowledge of Golang

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Attend daily and weekly engineering meetings.

• Support the Blackpoint platform, engineering operations, and feature teams by designing, implementing, and monitoring Blackpoint cloud infrastructure.

• Assist in the design, enhancement, and development of Blackpoint's Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) engineering processes.

• Help increase engineering and development efficiencies through the application of automated, scalable technology that supports Blackpoint's Agile and Kanban workflows.

• Test and assess implemented DevOps technologies and workflows.

• Provide mentoring and guidance to others less experienced in areas of personal expertise.

Blackpoint Cyber welcomes and encourages applications from qualified individuals of all races,  colors, religions, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital  status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to equality of opportunity in all  aspects of employment. 

We thank everyone for their interest, but only those candidates selected for an interview will be  contacted. 

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