Backend Engineer intern

DataDome is one of the fastest-growing tech startups in Paris(e)We offer a cutting edge technology that protects online businesses (websites and mobile applications) against advanced cyber attacks.

Based on AI & Machine Learning, our cybersecurity solution can detect & block the most sophisticated bot attacks, in real-time.

We’re proud to protect more than 200 Companies worldwide, including TripAdvisor, The New-York Times, Foot locker Carrefour, BlaBlaCar, Rakuten, Veepee, Adevinta.

Our offices in Paris, New-York & Singapour gather talents coming from 13 different nationalities(e)We all love our ideally located & modern offices, an accessible management team, offsite events and weekly team-building initiatives, a chill room that includes football, video games and a punching bag!

DataDome is #CustomerCentric, the solution is the leader on g2.com and 100% of our customers renew their subscription year after year.

Want to play your part in the war against bad bots? Join the team and become a Botbuster!

Our technical stack is mainly composed of a real-time detection layer in Java, a low latency Stream Engine running on Flink in Scala, ElasticSearch for the storage, Kafka for communication between layers, HAProxy for load balancing, Symfony 5 & Angular 9 for our dashboards.

We operate at scale and handle over 1 000 billion events per day giving responses within 3ms (99p)(e)Currently, we are present in more than 25 data centers around the world, deployed using Docker.

Our infrastructure is deployed on AWS, Azure, Scaleway, Vultr, and GCP, using Docker, Ansible and Terraform, and monitored with Grafana and Prometheus.

This stack is currently handling 500k requests per second and manages more than 300 TB of data.

The [engine] team:

Our Engine team is currently composed of 7 engineers who thrive for technical challenges, design new detection components to help us better protect our customers .

You will be more specifically in charge of:

• Contributing to our stream analysis platform to improve our detection quality
• Simulating new bot detection functionalities on large data sets
• Participating to the improvement of our server side integrated modules
• Taking part in the team agile ceremonies: sprint planning, retros, ...

You could be a good fit if you:

• Have validated at least your 2 first years at Uni or Engineering School
• Have a strong programming background in Java or Scala
• Have a great experience working in Unix/Linux environments
• Care about code quality, simplicity and performance

Bonus points

• You've worked at high scale with systems like Apache Flink, MariaDB, Redis, Akka actors, Kafka or ElasticSearch
• You wrote your own crawler once or twice before
• You understand how internet works

What we offer if you join our dream team:

• A stimulating work environment with passionate individuals and a first class R&D team creating a first class and innovative solution, making DataDome one of the strongest performers in the bot protection industry
• A multicultural and diverse team with a multicultural and diverse team with almost 18 different nationalities in the office!
• A joyful workplace with many events throughout the year : annual offsite, summer and Christmas parties; one thematic aperitif per month...