Cybersecurity Software Engineer

Hunters SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to security incidents across their entire attack surface. We enable vendor-agnostic data ingestion and normalization at a predictable cost. Our built-in detection engineering, data correlation, and automatic investigation help teams overcome volume, complexity, and false positives. Hunters mitigates real threats faster and more reliably than SIEMs, ultimately reducing customers' overall security risk.

Enterprises like Booking.com, Snowflake, and Cimpress leverage Hunters SOC Platform to empower their security teams. Hunters is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors including Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake, Databricks, and Okta.

We are looking for a Cybersecurity Software Engineer for our Research team. Join us in building a robust real-time detection and transformation engine and contribute to content development and security engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of an Agile Scrum team to design, develop, and maintain detection and investigation content, large-scale data stream processing pipelines and backend components on top of Flink, K8S, and AWS.
• Improve existing tooling, APIs, and logging mechanisms for streamlined data processing.
• Collaborate on optimizing SQL queries for superior system performance and cost reduction.
• Share expertise with the Research team, contributing to a collaborative learning environment.
• Design, develop, and implement solutions to handle scaling with good performance & cost that are easy to maintain.
• Take a crucial part in content development to enhance the effectiveness of our threat detection and response capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineers across Hunters' R&D group and Product Managers to improve our platform.
• Develop and implement data quality checks to ensure accuracy and completeness of data and work on externalizing monitoring capabilities.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of development experience in Python with functional programming paradigms.
• Proven Back End engineering experience.
• Strong and proven experience in writing SQL, optimizing SQL queries for efficiency and speed, minimizing resource consumption, and ensuring cost-effectiveness in data processing.
• Experience with modern Data lakes/warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
• A demonstrated interest in the cybersecurity landscape, including a basic understanding of common threats and security principles.
• Strong collaborative skills, as the role involves working within a dynamic research team and contributing to developing cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions.
• Proven ability to independently solve problems, troubleshoot issues, and propose effective solutions.
• B.Sc. in computer science or equivalent experience.

Advantages:

• Experience in data engineering with a focus on Scala/Java, Spark/Flink/Kafka.
• Experience working with FinOps tools.
• Advantage for experience in effect systems such as ZIO.
• Production experience working with SaaS environments.