A rapidly growing SaaS company in the cybersecurity space is hiring a team in Los Angeles and looking for strong Platform Engineers to work on their secret computing platform. Leaders in helping data scientists gather insights and perform analyses on highly secured data sets, this company is building distributed applications at scale in Scala, Java, AKKA, Hadoop and Spark. This is a brand new position that will offer tons of opportunity to growth as you will be the first hire in the SoCal area so you’ll be responsible for helping lead and mentor the team that will exist in the future. You should be a passionate engineer with an obsession for quality code and a demonstrated academic background in Computer Science. Required Skills Experience At least 8 years of experience in software engineering using Java or Scala Experience with distributed platforms Computer Science degree (Masters or Ph.D. highly preferred) Desired Skills and Experience Experience with AKKA Cloud native application experience What You Will Be Doing Tech Breakdown 50 Java 50 Scala The Offer Competitive Salary Up to 200,000year plus a 5 bonus, DOE You will receive the following benefits Comprehensive medical benefits with vision and dental (above market standard contributions and options for families) Stock options 3 weeks of PTO Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future. LI-RS1