Remote Scala Team Augmentation for Cybersecurity Platform Modernization

Project Overview

A leading cybersecurity product company partnered with Centizen to expand its backend engineering capabilities after acquiring a local startup. The company needed experienced Scala developers to scale its threat detection platform, but faced serious hiring challenges in its local market due to the niche nature of Scala and functional programming expertise.

By leveraging Centizen’s extensive tech talent network and flexible hiring model, the client successfully built a dedicated remote team from India. This team accelerated the development of core data pipelines, reduced product delivery timelines, and helped launch new predictive security features on time and within budget.

Challenges

• Limited availability of experienced Scala engineers, especially those with Spark or distributed computing backgrounds.
• Rising backend complexity required functional programming capabilities that weren’t common in most developer pools.
• The platform needed to process large volumes of security data in near real-time, but existing infrastructure couldn’t keep pace.
• Local hiring proved cost-prohibitive and time-intensive, with extended lead times for sourcing Scala specialists.
• The company was under pressure to accelerate product innovation post-acquisition but lacked immediate bandwidth.

Solutions Delivered

Rapid Access to Niche Scala Talent

The client’s internal team had limited exposure to Scala and struggled with functional programming models and asynchronous workflows.

Centizen’s Solution:

Centizen quickly assembled a core team of Scala and Java developers from its India-based talent network. These engineers brought prior experience in Spark-based data ingestion and secure backend development, allowing the client to gain momentum in areas that required deep backend rework and distributed systems knowledge.

Laying the Groundwork for Data Pipeline Modernization

The backend system was largely monolithic and wasn’t designed for the volume or velocity of modern cybersecurity data. This created delays in analytics and impacted the accuracy of threat detection.

Centizen’s Solution:

Our team worked on refactoring backend modules into microservices and introduced containerization using Kubernetes. Apache Spark and Kafka were introduced to begin building scalable, distributed data pipelines. This architectural shift doubled data ingestion throughput and enabled near real-time analytics capabilities that were previously constrained by their monolithic legacy stack.

Scalable and Cost-Efficient Team Expansion

Finding and onboarding Scala talent in the U.S. or UK would have taken months—and hiring full-time staff for a temporary scale-up wasn’t feasible.

Centizen’s Solution:

Centizen provided a flexible hiring model that allowed the client to scale the team for a targeted 9-month build phase. This eliminated idle time and minimized budget overages while maintaining delivery velocity.

End-to-End Team Management with Zero Overhead

The client wanted to avoid additional infrastructure costs and HR burdens while maintaining a secure and productive development environment.

Centizen’s Solution:

We managed the entire remote setup—from recruitment and onboarding to compliance and payroll. Developers operated securely within Centizen’s managed delivery environment, minimizing risk and admin load for the client while keeping development timelines intact.

Hear from Our Client

“Centizen brought us the Scala expertise we simply couldn’t find locally. They understood the urgency, sourced strong candidates fast, and became a true extension of our team. This was the smartest move we made to scale securely and efficiently.”

– VP of Engineering

A Global Cybersecurity Product Company

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