Mail Software Developer/Engineer - Network Development at Lastline

Mail Software Developer/Engineer - Network Development

Lastline, London, Boston

COMPLETE BREACH VISIBILITY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

THE JOB:

You will be directly involved in the development and maintenance of part of the Lastline Network Sensor product, with specific focus on email delivery and analysis. You will be designing, coding, analyzing performance, and debugging in real-world deployment scenarios. You will have the opportunity to extend and improve an existing software architecture by exploring innovative approaches and ideas with a significant level of freedom.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

In-depth knowledge of networking concepts and network protocols.
Excellent Python development skills, and basic knowledge of Ruby/Puppet.
Experience in use of Linux development and system tools (including use and configuration of postfix, sendmail, etc).
BSCS or equivalent.
Strong analytic thinking as well as the ability to understand and work reliably and responsibly in large codebases.
Comfortable working with geographically distributed team.

THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ARE NOT REQUIRED BUT WILL STRENGTHEN A CANDIDATE'S POSITION:

Experience in network security research.
Experience in the development and maintenance of large code bases.

LASTLINE, THE COMPANY:

Lastline is a venture backed cyber security company with demonstrably the industry’s best network-based defense against targeted, evasive and zero-day attacks. Lastline is focused on real-time analysis of advanced malware and knowing the Internet's malicious infrastructure.

THE TEAM:

You will work with some of the world’s leading experts in network cyber security. The team encompasses a range of expertises in network detection that goes from low level packet sniffing to network detection and threat intelligence. Members of the team share a common background and interest in the analysis of network traffic for the detection of security relevant activities and have a passion for this type of work. The team culture welcomes new ideas and experimentation- all team members innovate to improve the detection capabilities of the system.

About Lastline

Lastline is revolutionizing the way companies improve network breach protection with malware detection tools that uncover malware- and browser-based attacks and malicious network activity before suffering a costly data breach. And we enable you to do this with fewer resources and at lower cost than existing malware detection tools. In 2011, Drs. Engin Kirda, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna, three of the world’s most influential academic researchers in cybersecurity, founded Lastline. The company’s vision is informed by the founders’ world-renowned research on malware analysis and evasion techniques, academically-rooted rigor, innovative approaches to network breach protection, and a passion to improve enterprise cybersecurity. Lastline’s unmatched level of visibility, accuracy and effectiveness, and our focus on IT managers’ ever-increasing pressure to secure company networks and assets, has resulted in the company providing specific, actionable, context-rich threat intelligence and decreased data loss to many of the largest and most successful companies around the world.