Data Engineer 1

Role Description

Are you a data engineer who actually enjoys being the person who keeps critical systems alive? Flashpoint is looking for a Data Engineer I to own the real-time data infrastructure behind our intelligence platform, the Pub/Sub topics, Dataflow pipelines, and AI enrichment that let our customers spot threats the moment they emerge. This is a depth role, not a learning role. You're joining a small, senior team where the architecture is already solid and proven; your job is to be its operational heartbeat, keeping petabyte-scale pipelines flowing 24/7/365, troubleshooting under pressure, and continuously hardening the systems our customers depend on.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience building or operating streaming data pipelines (Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to debug and optimize GCP Dataflow (or comparable Beam-based stream processing).
• A reliability mindset, fluency with SLAs, observability, on-call, and incident response, and the autonomy to dive into logs, metrics, and traces unaided.
• Proficiency with Python, SQL, and Linux.
• Real experience integrating Vertex AI / Gemini, or strong transferable experience with similar LLM platforms, into data workflows.

Requirements

• You've operated production streaming pipelines at real scale, Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar, and you know how message queues actually behave when traffic spikes and consumers fall behind.
• You've debugged and optimized GCP Dataflow (or comparable Beam-based) jobs in production, not just stood them up.
• You've been first responder for systems with no tolerance for downtime, and you've owned the incident from page to postmortem.
• You've built the monitoring and alerting that catches failures before customers do, using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Stackdriver.
• You've integrated LLMs into a data pipeline, Vertex AI and Gemini, or strong transferable work with similar platforms, and understand prompt engineering in a data context.
• You've worked terabyte-to-petabyte datasets and kept systems responsive while filtering high-volume data.

Benefits

• Diversity: Flashpoint is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity.
• Culture and Belonging: Opportunities to connect with coworkers through various communication channels and company-funded virtual events.
• Perks: Health and wellness perks like gym reimbursements, expensed lunches, and inclusive employee events.
• Career Growth: Regular one-on-ones with your manager, performance reviews, and learning and development opportunities.

Company Description

Flashpoint is the pioneering leader in threat data and intelligence. We empower commercial enterprises and government agencies to decisively confront complex security challenges, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience amid fast-evolving threats. Through the Flashpoint Ignite platform, we deliver unparalleled depth, breadth and speed of data from highly relevant sources, enriched by human insights. Our solutions span cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, geopolitical risk, physical security, fraud and brand protection. The result: our customers safeguard critical assets, avoid financial loss, and protect lives.