The Role:

Halcyon’s goal is to deliver an anti-ransomware solution that breaks new ground as to what a security product can deliver.  Aligned with this goal, Halcyon is looking for an experienced engineer to contribute to the development of our cloud applications and specifically our API’s which power the solution.  Our cloud applications provide our customers with visibility into the activity across their fleet of deployed endpoints and allow them to take action across the fleet.

Responsibilities:

Collaboration with Product Teams: Work closely with product managers and team members. Align API design with product vision and user needs, ensuring consistency and usability.

Interface with UI and Data Platform Teams: Coordinate with UI and data platform developers. Ensure that UI components and APIs are seamlessly integrated, focusing on API usability and user experience.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Continuously explore new techniques and tools to improve API development processes and design patterns. Encourage innovation within the team.

System Reliability Experience: Design for sustainable reliability and monitor APIs for issues or degradation and respond appropriately and responsibly.

Skills and Qualifications:

Extensive experience building enterprise-quality APIs using a modern programming language and web server framework

Experience with API versioning and design principles that promote discoverability, such as HATEOAS

Experience with API documentation tooling such as the Open API Specification

Experience interfacing with a variety of databases and data stores

Experience securing APIs using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and related authorization flows

Experience deploying infrastructure and applications in AWS

Ability to collaborate with other engineering teams on integration and architectural design

Design and automate comprehensive API test suites for robust functionality, performance, and security

Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes with Helm (or similar tooling)

Experience building APIs in Scala or C#

Bonus Skills and Qualifications:

Experience with Terraform, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and/or ArgoCD

Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Postgres, DynamoDB, and/or Kafka

Benefits:

 Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:

Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.

401k plan with a generous employer contribution.

Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.

Medical and dependent care FSA options.

Flexible PTO policy.

Parental leave.

Generous equity offering.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.​

Base Salary Range: $130,000 - $170,000

Bonus Target: 10%