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$120,000 – $180,000
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What this role is
This role involves researching and building detection systems for malicious Linux activity, then implementing them as production sensor code. It suits engineers with deep Linux OS knowledge and either security expertise or strong C/C++ development skills who want to work on large-scale endpoint protection infrastructure.
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What they ask for
Required
- 3+ years in reverse engineering/threat detection/malware analysis with on-device development experience, OR 3+ years designing and building high-quality C/C++ software with security familiarity
- Linux OS internals knowledge: processes, storage, networking, memory management
- High-quality C/C++ code meeting high-concurrency, reliability, performance and low-level operating requirements
- Enterprise software delivery experience with CI, testing, debugging, performance tracing, release management, and telemetry analysis
- Team collaboration and communication skills
Nice to have
- Linux kernel programming or eBPF experience
- Prior endpoint threat detection or sensor development experience on other operating systems
- Familiarity with recent Linux threat landscape developments
- 24/7 enterprise endpoint software development and delivery experience
- AI technologies experience to enhance decision-making and workflows