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# Principal Software Engineer (Data Integration / Backend Engineering) at Balbix

- **Company:** Balbix
- **Location:** Delhi, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-05-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/balbix/437f6ad1-4983-414b-86b6-91dd6e3e93a7

## Job description

## ABOUT THIS ROLE

As a Principal Software engineer you will work on complex data pipelines dealing with petabytes of data. Balbix platform is used as one of the critical security tools by the CIOs, CISOs, and the sec-ops teams of small, medium and large sized enterprises including Fortune 10 companies around the world. You will solve problems related to massive cybersecurity and IT data sets. You will collaborate closely with our data scientists, threat researchers and network experts to solve real-world problems plaguing cybersecurity. This role requires excellent algorithm, programming and testing skills as well as experience in large-scale data engineering projects.

You Will

- Design and implement the features and own the modules for ingesting, storing and manipulating large data sets for a variety of cybersecurity use-cases
- Write code to provide backend support for data-driven UI widgets, web dashboards, workflows, search and API connectors
- Design and implement web services, rest APIs, and microservices
- Build production quality solutions that balance complexity and meet acceptance criteria of functional requirements
- Work with multiple-interfacing teams, including ML, UI, backend and data engineering

You Are

- Driven to experience and learn more about design, architecture, and take on progressive roles
- Collaborative and comfortable working with across teams including data engineering, front end, product management, and DevOps
- Responsible and like to take ownership of challenging problems
- An effective communicator, including good documentation practices and articulating thought processes in a team setting
- Comfortable with working in an agile environment
- Curious about technology and the industry, and a constant learner

You Have

- MS/BS 7+ years in Computer Science or a related field
- Expert programming experience with Python, Java, or Scala
- Good working knowledge of SQL databases such as Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
- Experience with search engine database such as ElasticSearch is preferred
- Time-series databases such as InfluxDB, Druid, Prometheus
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems

This role represents a unique opportunity to join a hyper-growth company in a key role where you can make a big impact on the trajectory of the company and its products alongside great professional journey.

Life @ Balbix Work life at Balbix is very rewarding! We are developing the world's most advanced platform to address what is perhaps the most important (and hardest) technology problem facing mankind today. Our team is collaborative, fast moving and fun-loving, a combination not always seen in cutting-edge B2B startups. Working with clarity of goals in a culture of alignment and bottom-up innovation, Balbix team members see an opportunity for rapid career growth. We encourage experimenting and continuous learning, a can-do attitude, excellence and ownership. We work hard, take great pride in our work, and have loads of fun along the way!

More information at https://www.balbix.com/join-us

Please reach out if you want a seat on our rocket-ship and are passionate about changing the cybersecurity equation.

## About Balbix

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Balbix provides an AI-native platform for cyber risk and exposure management, helping enterprises reduce breach risk by unifying data from security and IT systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Safe Security in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States (additional office in Gurugram, India)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Gaurav Banga (founder and former CEO, left April 2026)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security / Cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise (finance & banking, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy & utilities, healthcare)
- **Mission**: Provide every organization with a comprehensive, real-time view of breach risk along with prioritized insights and integrations to transform cybersecurity posture.

## Products & Services
- **Balbix BreachControl™**: AI-powered SaaS platform for exposure management, cyber risk quantification, asset inventory, and application security risk management. Continuously discovers on-prem, cloud, and mobile assets; analyzes 100+ attack vectors; and provides prioritized remediation actions.
- **BIX GenAI Security Assistant**: An AI assistant that delivers instant, evidence-backed answers to board, executive, and auditor questions about cyber risk.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$5.3M (LinkedIn estimate); total funding $101.6M (Series A: $8.6M led by Mayfield Fund, 2017; Series B: $23M led by Singtel Innov8, 2018; Series C: $70M led by Redline Capital, 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mayfield Fund, Singtel Innov8, Redline Capital
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount declined 64.3% YoY to 44 employees (likely due to acquisition); still posting 11 open positions. Acquired by Safe Security in November 2025 to create an agentic-AI cyber risk system. Named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" and ranked #32 on Deloitte Fast 500 North America (2021).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Unifies data from 150+ security and IT systems into a real-time view of assets and exposures.
- **Automated asset discovery**: Customers typically discover 15–35% more assets than they thought they had after deploying Balbix.
- **Risk quantification in dollars**: Enables CISOs to communicate cyber risk to boards, insurers, and regulators in business terms.
- **Continuous prioritization**: Analyzes exploitability, blast radius, and business impact to focus on the most critical exposures.

## Strategic Focus
- Integration with Safe Security to deliver a unified agentic-AI cyber risk platform.
- Continued development of AI/ML capabilities (LLM systems, data lakehouse, DevOps automation) to improve exposure management and risk quantification.
- Serving enterprise customers in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, energy).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Startup energy with helpful coworkers, ping-pong, happy hours, no micro-management, and flexible hours (from employee reviews). However, recent founder and VP Engineering departures indicate a transition period post-acquisition.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: On-site workspaces at HQ in San Jose and office in Gurugram. Some roles (e.g., AI/ML Architect) are listed as "Hybrid – Full-Time Delhi NCR"; others are "On-site" or "Full-Time".
- **Perks & Benefits**: Company equity, performance bonuses, diversity initiatives.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on AI/ML, LLM systems (LangGraph & Bedrock), data lakehouse, DevOps, and backend engineering. Open roles include AI/ML Architect, Staff AI Engineer, Technical Team Lead – LLM Systems, and Principal DevOps Engineer.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/balbix) – Company details, headcount, revenue, funding, open positions
2. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/balbix) – Products, competitors, acquisition by Safe Security
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/balbix) – Careers, perks, locations
4. [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Balbix) – Employee reviews, revenue range
5. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/balbix) – Active job postings (AI/ML Architect, DevOps, etc.)

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