Staff / Principal Data Engineer - Data Platform

About the role

AppGate Cybersecurity is building an AI-native data platform that powers fraud detection and response across 360 Fraud Protection. It is hiring a Staff or Principal Data Engineer to own the data platform and data lake, working hands-on with a small group of senior engineers, data scientists and product partners. The role is on-site in New York City, 3-4 days per week in the office.

Key responsibilities

• Own the design, build and operation of the data lake and ingestion platform, from architecture through production reliability.
• Build low-latency batch and streaming pipelines that ingest signals from internal and external sources, normalize them to a common schema, enrich them with context and serve model-ready data.
• Make adding a new data source a routine task so the view of risk keeps widening.
• Establish data quality, freshness, completeness, lineage and observability so the platform can be automated on top of.
• Build pipelines that ground generative AI, including unstructured text and threat intelligence processing, embedding generation, vector storage and retrieval.
• Own deployment, CI/CD and operational reliability of the platform on Kubernetes.
• Partner with data science, product and architecture to turn the platform into a shared foundation across 360 Fraud Protection.

Required profile

• Extensive experience building and operating large-scale data platforms and data lakes at high data volumes.
• Proven command of best practices for batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Strong production engineering skills across the full delivery lifecycle, able to ship end-to-end.
• Track record of owning data infrastructure end-to-end with limited supervision.

Required skills

• Apache Spark and Apache Flink, with modern big-data systems.
• Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling.
• Preferred: generative AI and embedding models, vector databases and retrieval; cybersecurity or threat intelligence background (phishing, mobile threats, malware); familiarity with transaction data and transaction fraud signals.

What we offer

• Base salary range of $180-$270.
• Bonus or commission of 15%.
• Minimal travel expected.