Software Engineer | Staff | Python | Threat Intelligence

Department: NordVPN

Location: Warsaw

Employment Type: FullTime

Main Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the long-term technical vision for data curation, ingestion, and processing platforms within the Threat Intelligence domain, ensuring architectural consistency and sustainable system evolution.

• Lead the design of large-scale distributed systems, including computing pipelines, microservices, data contracts, and storage solutions, while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

• Conduct comprehensive architectural, design, and high-level code reviews, upholding engineering standards, architectural consistency, security requirements, and data quality controls.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders to align architectural direction with organizational strategy and business priorities.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams, supporting their development, removing blockers, and reinforcing best practices.

• Identify, prioritize, and remediate technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks across the platform.

• Strengthen engineering processes by supporting robust testing practices, CI/CD improvements, rigorous documentation culture, deployment reliability, and operational excellence in cloud environments.

Core Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience with Python and backend engineering in high-scale environments.

• At least 3 years of experience in an architectural or cross-team technical leadership role, including designing event-driven architectures, data-intensive pipelines, and an understanding of system trade-offs.

• Strong understanding of databases and data systems, including PostgreSQL and other storage models; demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues.

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• High standards of engineering quality, with an emphasis on maintainable, testable, secure, and well-structured code.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

• Strong commitment to continuous learning, proactive problem identification, and improvement of systems, processes, and engineering practices within the Cyber Threat Intelligence field.

Tools You Will Use

• Python

• Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, ArgoCD

• FastAPI, aiohttp

• PostgreSQL, Redis

• GitLab CI/CD

• AWS (MSK, RDS, EKS, EC2, S3, EMR, KEDA)

Salary Range

• Gross Salary 22800 - 33400 PLN/month