Staff Engineer, Security Efficacy

What you will be doing:

• Designing and developing state-of-the-art security solutions to detect threats traversing a network.
• Working with Threat Researchers to understand the threat landscape and build next-generation, cloud-based inline security solutions.
• Developing and maintaining inline datapath components, and ensuring scalability and optimal performance.
• Helping transfer POCs to automatic components and processes in production.
• Building scalable, stable production systems and services.
• Working closely with Data Scientists, Threat Researchers, other Software Engineers, and QE Engineers to ensure our solutions deliver continuous value to customers.

Required skills and experience:

• 10+ years of relevant security industry experience
• Experience developing network layer parsers to decode application protocols, and software for IPS/IDS firewall is highly desirable.
• Good development experience with C/C++ 
• Knowledge of and experience coding in Python and Rust 
• Experience with HTTP, web proxies, and TCP/IP networking.
• A strong networking background, including knowledge of Unix/Linux environments, web protocols, and web applications.
• Experience optimizing and scaling systems performance is highly desirable.
• An energetic self-starter with the drive to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to think outside the box and evaluate results based on customer requirements.
• The ability to influence without authority.

Education:

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred