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Cylake

Data Pipeline Engineer

Sunnyvale
Salary
$150,000 - $250,000 per year
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Sunnyvale

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Open. First seen 3 October 2026.

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About the role

Cylake's standard text

Your Impact

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world-class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start.

Role Overview

Design, build, and maintain a scalable, open-source data lakehouse architecture supporting petabyte-scale analytics workloads. Responsible for architecting end-to-end data pipelines from ingestion through transformation to consumption, ensuring high performance, reliability, and data quality.

Required Experience

  • A proven track record of success architecting, building, and running large-scale data systems (PB scale)
  • Experience with both batch and real-time processing architectures
  • Experience with open source Data Lakehouse components, including Apache Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Apache Parquet, etc.
  • Experience with tools for stream processing and data analytics - Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.
  • Understanding and experience with data transformation solutions
  • Excellent programming experience with Python
  • Strong communication and documentation skills
  • Experience with CSP data platforms is a plus
  • Understanding of data lineage, quality, and governance tooling is a plus

We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and long-term success. The expected salary range for this position is $150,000 – $250,000 per year. Within this range, individual pay is determined based on job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and internal equity. Most candidates can expect an offer within the range listed above. Your recruiter will provide additional details on compensation and benefits to qualified candidates during the hiring process.

Cylake's standard text

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know — we’re happy to support you.

What this role asks for

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

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In most of Cylake's ads

Cybersecurity

Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.

60% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Cylake's standard text, folded away below.

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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 12 open in Engineering. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Cybersecurity (12 of 12), Rust (8 of 12), Python (7 of 12), C (4 of 12), Golang (4 of 12), C++ (3 of 12), Linux (3 of 12)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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