Staff Domain Engineer, Halcyon
$240-275k
+ Equity + 10% Bonus Target
Cybersecurity tools to protect against ransomware
Be an early applicant
Cybersecurity tools to protect against ransomware
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-275k
+ Equity + 10% Bonus Target
201-500 employees
Company mission
Halcyon's mission is to defeat ransomware.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in Windows low-level security development, including experience with kernel-mode and user-mode security mechanisms
- Strong proficiency in Rust, C, and C++, with experience working with the Windows API
- Experience developing security defenses, particularly against ransomware and malware threats
- Strong understanding of systems and software engineering best practices, including performance, maintainability, and security considerations
- Ability to bridge the gap between research and engineering, bringing ideas closer to production feasibility
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, including cloud, agent, and kernel engineering teams
- Excellent interpersonal skills—able to document, present, and advocate for security solutions within Engineering and Product teams
What the job involves
- Halcyon’s goal is to deliver an anti-ransomware solution that breaks new ground as to what a security product can deliver
- Aligned with this goal, Halcyon is looking for a Domain Staff Engineer to help ensure innovative capabilities make it into delivered product
- These innovative capabilities will ensure that Halcyon’s customers' are at the forefront of the fight against the threat of ransomware
- To this end, we are seeking a Domain Staff Engineer to bridge the gap between Security Research and Engineering in the development of new security features that enhance our ransomware protection, detection, and remediation capabilities
- This role sits within Security Research, reporting to the VP of Research, and takes innovative security ideas and works closely with the engineering team to collaborate on proofs-of-concept, architectures, solutions, and mechanisms to make the ideas reality
- Assist or lead the development of initial stage product capabilities that measure and/or demonstrate the feasibility of new protections
- Work closely with agent, kernel, and cloud engineering teams to ensure approaches align with real-world constraints and implementation strategies
- Learn from Engineering’s technology stack and patterns to improve future approaches to implementation, making them more aligned with production realities
- Advocate for security solution ideas, ensuring they are well-documented, technically validated, and ready for Engineering adoption
- Drive and refine the processes by which new product capabilities transition into Engineering for full productization
- Act as a facilitator between Security Research and Engineering, ensuring that product innovations are seamlessly integrated into Engineering workflows
- Ensure that product innovations are designed to scale and integrate well within existing engineering frameworks
Our take
As cyber attacks become increasingly complex, especially in the mode of ransomware, companies such as Halcyon are becoming an ever more important weapon in the fight for cybersecurity. Though only formed in 2021, its founders have extensive experience as researchers at cybersecurity unicorn Cylance, amongst other notable companies in the sector.
Halcyon’s product stands out from similar - and abundant - offerings thanks to its melding of multi-proprietary advanced prevention engines and AI models designed specifically to seek out and destroy ransomware threats. It's the flexibility and reactivity of these two multi-tiered facets that have made Halcyon a trusted partner for companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list.
With significant funding behind it, Halcyon will ramp up the development of its platform's features and continue expanding its customer base.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$100m
SERIES C
Dec 2023
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $204m
Company benefits
- A Remote Native Global Team - As a remote first, completely distributed team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we'll work a plan to meet your needs.
- Health & Wellness - We offer comprehensive health benefits to meet you and your family’s needs, including 100% covered Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- Competitive Compensation Packages - We offer competitive compensation packages with equity, depending on position, along with a generously matched retirement plan, unlimited PTO, paid sick time and holidays
- Future Planning & Time Off - We offer paid time off to take care of yourself! Relax and recharge on us. We also include paid parental leave, short & long term disability insurance, life insurance and more
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
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Leadership
Jon Miller
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously CEO and Founder at Boldend, Advisory Board member at Cylance, Vice President at Accuvant LABS, Managing Consultant at IBM.
Ryan Smith
(CTO & Co-Founder)Currently Owner at Hustle Labs. Previously Chief Research Officer at Boldend, Advisory Board Member at Cylance.
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