Senior Staff Software Engineer - Java/Scala API design Data structures and Algorithms
Company name
Lookout, Inc.
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Employment Type
Full-Time
Industry
Engineering, It
Posted on
Mar 13, 2022
Profile
*We are open to candidates across North America to work remotely*
As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer on the Security Intelligence team, you will contribute broadly to the detection engines, analysis systems, and other core intellectual property at Lookout. We're looking for senior engineers who have experience building, monitoring, and maintaining high-volume, low-latency distributed SaaS solutions. We believe in agile software development, metrics, short feedback loops, well-designed APIs, test-driven development, automation wherever possible, and all sorts of other things to make sure we can minimize friction and focus on solving the big problems. You will be a member of the team that is responsible for a massively scalable platform that acquires and analyses domains/web content for the purpose of classification and delivers data sets to internal and user-facing applications.
Do you have exceptionally good software development skills with Java or Scala? Are you able to demonstrate strong expertise with data structures and algorithms? Do you have experience with API design and low latency solutions? Then you could be Lookout's Sr. Staff Software Engineer with ability to work remotely
What you’ll do:
Develop elegant, scalable, robust, and maintainable code for best-in-class security services, using Java, and/or Scala.
Work closely with our Security Research teams to develop the tools that support our most critical research initiatives and content development workflows.
Resolve bugs and conduct code fixes
Conduct design and code reviews
Lead by example, demonstrating software craftsmanship and best practices
Requirements
12 years of overall development experience in designing/implementing large-scale, distributed. production class software on public cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
Strong development background in Java and/or Scala.
Experience in developing, planning, and executing RESTful web services and/or stream message processing systems.
Experience working with SQL DBs (MySQL, Postgres) in the context of web services, with a big plus for candidates who also have NoSQL DB experience (Bigtable, Redis)
Discipline for testing and automation - unit, functional, integration, and other forms of automated testing
Collaborative attitude, with an interest in growing a strong engineering team and culture: everything from hiring great people, to mentoring junior engineers, to fine-tuning process as necessary
Stellar communication skills, able to work well with a smart, passionate, and growing team
Bonus Points
Experience with DevOps tools
Experience with AWS primitives such as Redis, NLB, DynamoDB, Arora and SWF.
Experience with GCP primitives such as BigTable, BigQuery is a plus.
Experience with building secure systems
Fault tolerance and self-healing systems
About Lookout
Lookout is a cybersecurity company that makes it possible for individuals and enterprises to be both mobile and secure. With 100 million mobile sensors fueling a dataset of virtually all the mobile code in the world, the Lookout Security Cloud can identify connections that would otherwise go unseen -- predicting and stopping mobile attacks before they do harm. The world’s leading mobile network operators, including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange, Sprint, T-Mobile and Telstra, have selected Lookout as its preferred mobile security solution. Lookout is also partnered with such enterprise leaders as AirWatch, Ingram Micro and MobileIron. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Boston, Toronto, Amsterdam, London, Sydney, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit www.lookout.com
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