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. Discover more at
flashpoint.ioAre you interested in a Software Engineering career making a real-world impact? Are you looking for a collaborative environment where you can learn from your peers, and teach them something as well?The Search and Alerting team is on the front line of providing threat intelligence from the deep and dark web and open source intelligence sources. The team's work provides around-the-clock insights from conversations within threat actor channels and illicit online communities. These communications provide insight into a broad spectrum of activities, threat actor tactics , techniques and procedures.
Accessing collected data through the Flashpoint Intelligence Platform provides additional insights for security teams to discover and respond to threats in a timely manner, thereby reducing risk to their organizations.
We have a role for you if
- You are a software engineer with an interest in search, event processing, and AI.
- You have experience with Python or other object-oriented languages
- You have an interest or experience with GCP or other cloud providers
- You enjoy working with a close-knit, highly communicative and collaborative team
- You have a humble attitude and persistence to learn
- You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- You are interested in working with search, event processing, and cloud concepts
What you will get to do on our team
- Work on our internal, high-performance search engine and event processing systems
- Write code to enable our users to find and understand threat intelligence
- Work with AI to provide context for our collections and search results
What you will achieve
- Within 30 days
- Configure your development environment
- Become familiar with internal tools and codebases for search and event processing
- Write and deploy your first pull request
- Within 60 days
- Independently write and deploy features
- Become familiar with our search and event-processing architectures
- Within 90 days
- Be able to add data types and custom filters to our search and event processing APIs
- Respond to help requests related to search and event processing
- Contribute to complex search and event-processing projects
To be successful in this role, you will need
- Interest in search technology. (Elasticsearch experience a plus, but not required)
- Experience with Python or similar object-oriented language
Base Pay Range: $100,000/yr - $110,000/yr plus bonusOur goal is to have an offer to a candidate within 60 days from when the role is posted. Typically, if the team is interested in your background you will hear from a member of the team within 2 weeks from your application submission date.
Why Flashpoint is a Great Place to Work:
- Diversity. Flashpoint is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity. We recognize that diversity is key to achieving our vision. We believe that every person and their experiences contribute to building a work environment and products and services that will change the world.
- Culture and Belonging. Our company’s culture isn’t something you join, it’s something you build and shape, and each person's unique backgrounds and experiences contribute to who Flashpoint is and will become. You will have ample opportunities to connect with coworkers through various communication channels and company-funded virtual events: book clubs, happy hours, committees, DIBE discussion group, Donut mixers, local team member meetups and much more.
- Perks. Flashpoint understands that personal wellness is one of the keys to a happy, healthy and productive work environment. That’s why we also prioritize health and wellness perks like gym reimbursements, expensed lunches, cool cultural initiatives and inclusive employee events.
- Career Growth. Flashpoint is invested in the growth of our team members and understands that frequent, two-way feedback is critical to that growth. We encourage regular one-on-ones with your manager, a regular schedule of performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and guidance through formalized career paths; whether that be towards being a great manager, being a great individual contributor, or a lateral move to gain breadth of knowledge and experience.
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