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Endgame
Senior Back End Engineer
Original posting
Endgame | San Francisco, CA | Senior Back End Engineer | http://jobvite.com/m?3MiZyhwn
You will be building scalable, innovative, groundbreaking software that powers the backend of our Cyber Security Products. Faced with challenging problems on a daily basis, you will work within a team to resolve the unique challenges of threat detection in highly dynamic environments. You will use high-level programming languages and work with terabytes of data in an ecosystem of NoSQL products. With Data Science at our core, you will collaborate with data scientists to implement advance threat detection models.
We are looking for a highly technical, creative and motivated software engineer who is excited to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and agile development environment, while solving critical cyber security problems. Ideal candidates have experience in rapid and early product lifecycle development.
What’s the Job?
You will be building scalable, innovative, groundbreaking software that powers the backend of our Cyber Security Products. Faced with challenging problems on a daily basis, you will work within a team to resolve the unique challenges of threat detection in highly dynamic environments. You will use high-level programming languages and work with terabytes of data in an ecosystem of NoSQL products. With Data Science at our core, you will collaborate with data scientists to implement advance threat detection models.
Requirements
At least 5-7 years of experience in the Software Engineering field
Strong experience with Python
Familiar with another major general purpose language like C, C++, Java, Go, Ruby, Scala, etc.
Significant expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Building/supporting RESTful APIs
Django or similar framework (Rails, Grails)
Eventing concepts/libraries — epoll, libev, libevent, Node.js, gevent, requests
Always a plus
Security background and expertise with any of the following strongly preferred: IPS/IDS, Network Monitoring, Malware Detection, Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence
Experience working in a fast-paced and/or startup environment
Experience working in a distributed-office environment