Junior Software Engineer

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

full-time

Posted on: 8/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $105,000 - $160,000 per year

Junior

AWSAzureCassandraCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsETLMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPostgresPythonRubyRuby on RailsSpark

About the role

Empirical Security builds cybersecurity models and software for data-driven decisions and operations.
Work across software stack: data pipelines, web UI elements and APIs.
Collaborate with Senior Engineers on design, scope and execute projects independently.
Involved throughout product lifecycle: idea generation, design, prototyping, production delivery.
Collaborate with technical and non-technical teammates to understand customer problems.
Move across teams to learn different technologies and product aspects.
Work autonomously and make independent decisions within a supportive community.
Day-to-day varies: architect data pipelines, investigate performance degradation, etc.

Implementing software solutions for complex high volume data environments with a strong focus on product quality and data integrity
Building robust APIs for use by front-end developers and interfacing external systems, and collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
Monitoring and maintaining backend services that underpin our our operational data and AI systems
Participating in ETL development and data integration efforts, ensuring data quality and accessibility for analytics applications
Designing efficient data structures and algorithms to manage large-scale and high throughput data
Supporting the management and optimization of data storage and warehousing solutions
Identifying opportunities to optimize for speed and scalability through performance analysis