Principal Software Architect - Data Platform (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid in Austin, Texas, United States

Total compensation: $240,000–$300,000 per year, including base salary and bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides cybersecurity ratings and risk management technology used to monitor companies, manage third-party risk, support board reporting, and inform cyber insurance underwriting.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end system design of the data platform, from internet-scale ingestion through analytical serving.
• Define service boundaries, data contracts, schema ownership, compatibility rules, and breaking-change processes.
• Design the lakehouse, including table formats, partitioning, schema evolution, compaction, and metadata management.
• Architect isolated serving paths for customer-facing low-latency queries, internal analytics and Data Science exploration, and bulk partner feeds.
• Build data quality, observability, validation, quarantine, freshness, completeness, drift detection, lineage, and metadata into the platform.
• Set architectural direction through prototypes, Technical Design Reviews, design documentation, standards, cross-team reviews, and mentorship.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software or data engineering experience, including significant large-scale data platform architecture work.
• Deep experience with stream and batch processing using Kafka, Flink, Spark, or comparable technologies.
• Strong Python and PySpark, solid Java for Flink, and enough Scala to reason about Spark codebases.
• Production lakehouse experience with Parquet, Iceberg, partitioning, compaction, and schema evolution.
• Experience with OLAP and analytical serving systems such as ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, data quality and observability practices, large-scale migrations, technical writing, design reviews, and mentorship.

Nice to have

• Experience building data layers for ML or LLM systems, including feature stores, vector stores, or retrieval pipelines.
• Experience with internet-scale scan, telemetry, observability data, or cybersecurity.
• Experience reducing platform costs through storage tiering, query governance, or compute right-sizing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with country-specific compensation and benefits.
• Stock options and health benefits.
• Unlimited paid time off and parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement and additional company benefits.
• Immigration sponsorship is not provided for this position.