Data Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: On-site in New York City, United States. Initial onboarding requires approximately two weeks at the Arlington, Virginia office, followed by occasional travel there as needed.

Base salary: $192,000–$281,000 annually. Estimated total compensation: $281,000–$455,000, including target bonus and estimated equity value.

Company

hirify.global develops offensive cybersecurity software and data infrastructure for U.S. and allied cyber operations.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and operate data pipelines that retrieve, transform, and integrate data sources into production applications.
• Develop AWS Glue jobs with PySpark, data schemas, analytical models, and integrations using ClickHouse and PostgreSQL.
• Monitor pipeline health, data quality, throughput, and freshness using Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir.
• Diagnose production incidents, perform root cause analysis, improve runbooks, and participate in PagerDuty on-call rotations.
• Package and support integrations for restricted and air-gapped environments in collaboration with forward-deployed engineers.
• Investigate undocumented data sources and turn operational insights into platform capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering with substantial data infrastructure experience.
• Expert Python skills and experience maintaining production-grade codebases.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark or PySpark, ideally through AWS Glue.
• Strong SQL, schema design, partitioning, indexing, and column-oriented database experience.
• Experience debugging production data systems and operating independently under time pressure.
• U.S. citizenship is required, and eligibility to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance is required; no active clearance is needed to start.

Nice to have

• Experience with data lakes, large-scale query technologies, streaming systems, or message queues.
• Experience with observability tools, air-gapped or classified environments, Docker, container orchestration, and CI/CD.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Trino, Presto, Athena, Kafka, NATS, Kinesis, or RabbitMQ.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on ownership of production systems used by cyber operations teams.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and AD&D coverage options.
• Paid parental leave, paid holidays, and flexible PTO.
• 401(k) plans with pre-tax and Roth options, plus HSA, FSA, and dependent care FSA options.
• Work involving restricted environments requires disciplined security, documentation, and deployment practices.