Principal Cloud Software Engineer (WildFire Cloud)

About the position

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test. Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions.

Responsibilities

• Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
• Design and implement real-time security services to our customers
• Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
• Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
• Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
• Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native GCP solutions
• Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
• Mentoring junior developers

Requirements

• Hands-on, principal level software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems
• Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang
• Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes
• Demonstrated experience working with Public Cloud Services such as AWS or GCP and designing cloud-native solutions
• Knowledge of the DevOps workflow
• Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
• Experience with data infrastructure platforms
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery
• Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub
• Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal
• Experience in leading and doing big projects end to end
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills required
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent military experience required

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees
• Mental and financial health resources
• Personalized learning opportunities
• Restricted stock units and a bonus