Principal Software Engineer
Job Description
Detecting attackers in real-time requires a high-performance suite of software that enables machine learning and statistical techniques. You will be joining a newly created team that has been tasked with detecting attackers in the cloud. This presents a unique opportunity to help shape the processes and practices of the team, as well as the technical architecture and delivery.
You will be a technical leader that will bring years of professional experience to help improve existing products and design and build new products and services. You will champion best practices and mentor younger engineers in the art of good programming. You will be an experienced voice on the team that can help shape and influence work practices whilst maintaining focus on the need to deliver customer value.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in the design and development of best-in-class security solutions
- Ensure comprehensive testing of any solutions developed
- Optimize the design and development process, as well as general work practices, to maximize quality and customer value
- Mentor younger engineers in terms of skills and career development
- Interface with other groups including Product Management, UX, Security Research and Data Science to help customers simplify security
Job Requirements
- 10+ years' experience designing and building complex systems/frameworks
- Expert software engineering fundamentals
- Knowledge of software design principles and leading software development practices
- Strong communication & collaboration skills
- Willingness to get things done, learn new things, take initiative and challenge existing assumptions and conventions
- Experience building and deploying to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Preferred:
- Experience programming in python
- Experience working with ETL pipelines and data transformation
- Experience working with the GCP Cloud Logging service
- Experience working with a geographically dispersed team
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Expertise in automated testing in addition to continuous integration and deployment tools
- Knowledge of AI/Machine Learning
- Knowledge of networking and networking protocols
- Knowledge of Cybersecurity
- Knowledge of the following tools (or similar): Git, Jenkins, JIRA etc.
