Staff Software Engineer – Backend Networking

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead large-scale Sensor Platform projects, focusing on enhancements for high-throughput ingestion, scalability of pipelines, continuous capture capabilities, and reliability in queue management.

• Take ownership of root cause analyses and postmortems for intricate production and canary issues, addressing aspects such as the capture pipeline, broker behavior during shutdowns, and integration with message brokers.

• Establish and advocate for standards in documentation, test harnesses, observability, and performance benchmarks throughout the sensor codebase.

• Convert business objectives, including latency targets, support for new capture interfaces, and reliability Service Level Objectives (SLOs), into actionable technical plans and delivery milestones.

• Identify and mitigate gaps in observability, reliability, and developer experience by creating tools that enable quicker diagnostics of production issues and enhance deployment confidence.

• Foster team growth through mentorship, design reviews, and code evaluations, catering to all levels of experience.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in the design, development, and debugging of distributed systems software.

• Profound expertise in Rust, particularly in asynchronous and concurrent programming, ownership discipline, and the design of performance-sensitive systems.

• Proven track record of architecting or leading major systems initiatives from start to finish, including design documentation and production deployment.

• Strong understanding of concurrent system design principles: pipeline topologies, graceful shutdown sequencing, backpressure management, and active queue management.

• Experience in high-performance packet capture and programming within Linux systems for low-latency applications.

• Demonstrated capability to lead root cause analyses on complex, multi-component failures and implement sustainable fixes that withstand production loads.

• Familiarity with message queuing or broker systems operating under production loads.

• Understanding of how sensor reliability and data fidelity impact detection quality in Industrial Control Systems/Operational Technology (ICS/OT) network monitoring environments.

• Proven experience in applying cybersecurity best practices, such as secure coding, data protection, and awareness of prevalent threats and vulnerabilities.

• All new hires are required to pass a background check as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Equity Package

• Comprehensive Benefits Plan