Full-Time Sr Software Engineer

Your Career

The Cortex Vulnerability Management Scanning team is expanding, and we’re looking for a Sr Software Engineer to join our team. This team builds the software that provides our customers visibility into their behind-the-firewall attack surface, allowing them to prioritize and remediate critical vulnerabilities using the XSIAM platform.

Your Impact

• Design, build, and maintain network scanning software to run on customers’ networks, as well as the infrastructure required to deliver and update it
• Build an in-depth understanding of the leading open source network scanning solutions
• Analyze existing solutions, identify barriers to scaling, recommend changes, then implement
• Take part in architecture strategy sessions - design solutions that accommodate the requirements of the various groups across Cortex
• Collaborate with teams to solve problems, reduce technical debt, and evolve development practices
• Drive technical best practices and evangelize new technologies within the engineering org
• Mentor other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output
• Take ownership of projects, drive them to completion, and support them in production

Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience as a professional software engineer writing back end software
• Experienced and opinionated about API design and distributed backend systems
• Able to switch between research, design, prototype, and implementation
• Experience using cloud managed services (ideally in GCP)
• Proficient in Python and one of Rust, Goland, or C coupled with strong network programming skills 
• Proficient knowledge of common networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, FTP, etc - Basic knowledge in other less common protocols such as ICS/SCADA or database protocols
• Familiarity with common open source security software such as Nuclei, OpenVAS, and Nmap
• Proficient knowledge in network architectures; understands subnetting and routing and how VLANs work and affect network scanning
• Proficiency in Linux and Windows operating systems
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of how a variety of exploits work and shows skills in enumerating and selecting the correct exploit for a given system
• Familiarity with packaging, deploying, and supporting on-prem / private cloud software
• Working knowledge of at least one of the major cloud platforms (eg GCP, AWS, or Azure)