Senior Backend Engineer, Corelight
$153-188k
Equity and additional benefits will also be awarded
Network & cloud security
Open for applications
Network & cloud security
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$153-188k
Equity and additional benefits will also be awarded
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help defend the world's most sensitive, mission-critical organisations.
Role
Who you are
- Core Values Alignment: You embody "low ego results," "tireless service," and "applied curiosity" in every interaction
- Product & User Empathy: You care deeply about building backend systems that help users understand complex data quickly and make thoughtful tradeoffs in service of usability
- Systems Thinking: You think beyond individual components, understanding how backend state, data, and API architecture work together across a large application
- Decisive Problem Solver: You can weigh conflicting constraints and make rapid, high-impact decisions in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Strategic & Technical Communication: You thrive in a collaborative environment, using your communication skills to influence product direction, align distributed teams, and influence technical outcomes
- Engineering Craft: You take pride in writing clear, well-structured, and maintainable code, prioritizing long-term quality and code health
- Professional Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, primarily on Linux or Unix-style platforms, with a track record in senior or lead roles
- Technical Proficiency: Deep expertise in Golang including experience with multi-threaded applications in production
- API Standards: Proven experience with formal API specifications such as OpenAPI
- Database & Data Mastery: Proficiency with both Relational (SQL) and NoSQL
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Preferred Experience: Prior experience leading software teams, background in Enterprise Security/Network products, and familiarity with search/analytics tools like Elasticsearch or Splunk
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer for our Fleet team, you will be a technical architect behind the systems that power our Open NDR Platform.
- You will bridge the gap between complex network data and seamless user experiences by overseeing the development of our centralized management platform
- By leading high-impact projects and collaborating across functions, you will ensure that our platform provides defenders with the intuitive tools they need to disrupt attacks in real-time
- Drive End-to-End Architecture: Lead the technical design, implementation, and operation of a centralized Sensor management platform known as Fleet. Responsible for Sensor lifecycle management, configuration, and real-time communication
- Build High-Performance APIs: Design and develop REST and GraphQL APIs to power service to service communication, enable top-notch user experience, and manage configurations through various supported authentication models
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide mentorship to other engineers through design guidance, rigorous code reviews, and the promotion of performant, maintainable coding standards
- Security-First Engineering: Evaluate new projects and architectural changes for security implications, working closely with cross-functional teams to mitigate risks while balancing value and effort
- Operational Excellence: Own the lifecycle of your features from design to production, implementing automated test suites, CI/CD pipelines, and proactive monitoring/alerting mechanisms
- UX & Product Collaboration: Partner with UX design teams and Product Managers to refine epics and translate wireframes into backend requirements for complex user flows
- Threat Intelligence Orchestration: Manage and distribute threat intelligence feeds (Zeek Intel, Suricata, Yara, etc.,)
Our take
Corelight is a software company that integrates machine learning into cyber and cloud security. It develops NDRs (Network Detection and Response systems) alongside virtual, software and cloud sensors to better protect enterprises and institutions.
The company's most popular product is the Zeek Network Security Monitor, which is used by the likes of Amazon and Mozilla. It is also continually developing new products (such as a Cloud Sensor for Amazon Web Services) as the nature and complexity of cyber threats continue to grow.
Launched back in 2013, the company has been around for a while now, but it continues to keep up to date with the changing market. In 2024, Corelight secured immense Series E funding as it capitalises on the booming AI and cyber defense markets.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2024
$150m
SERIES E
Sep 2021
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $309.2m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Dye
(CEO)Former CPO of the company. Prior to this, they were EVP of Corporate Products at McAfee, Group VP and GM of the Mobile Platforms Group at Citrix, and SVP of Information Security at Symantec.
Seth Hall
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Currently an Affiliated Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Previously Research Engineer at ICSI and Team Member at Dragon Research Group.
Vern Paxson
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Previously Director of the Networking Security Group at ICSI.
Robin Sommer
(Co-Founder)Currently Affiliated Researcher at ICSI and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Previously General Chair at the IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy.
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