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Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management

Lacework

Lacework

Software Engineering
United States
Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2022
<div class="content-intro"> <div id="6032d9f1bf642" class="component page-object text"> <p>At Lacework, we strive to provide a supportive, collaborative environment where people are empowered to do the best work of their careers.</p> </div> <div id="602ee361e485f" class="component page-object text"> <p>Our team members enjoy solving complex problems, big sky thinking, and obsess over getting the details right. We love what we do and are proud of our work to secure clouds and container environments for thousands of users worldwide.</p> </div> </div><p> <strong>Lacework</strong> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Lacework is the data-driven security platform for the cloud. The Lacework Cloud Security Platform, powered by Polygraph, automates cloud security at scale so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Polygraph is the only security solution that can collect, analyze and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. Customers all over the globe depend on Lacework to drive revenue, bring products to market faster and safer and consolidate point security solutions into a single platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif, with offices all over the world, Lacework has raised $600M in funding and is backed by leading investors like Sutter Hill Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Liberty Global Ventures and Snowflake Ventures, among others. The company is in the hyper-growth phase and is being led by an experienced team who collectively have decades of experience taking nascent companies to hyper-scale and building robust &amp; profitable businesses.</span> </p> <p> <strong>The Role</strong> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">We are looking for a software engineer in the Vulnerability Management team to accelerate one of Lacework’s core security application roadmaps. The ideal candidate is a software engineer who is passionate about cloud security, systems engineering, big data, and directly addressing customer-facing issues. This team focuses on delivering products while solving engineering challenges at scale. Given the fast-moving nature of this space, candidates should have a learner’s mindset and a curiosity for cloud infrastructure and the surrounding challenges with securing it.</span> </p> <p> <strong>What You Will Accomplish</strong> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Develop an in-depth understanding of the Lacework platform and customer value proposition</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Understand the competitive product landscape and Lacework differentiation</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Drive projects/technical initiatives related to vulnerability scanning and reporting</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Create a rich set of capabilities to support a “shift-left” strategy for policy-based vulnerability management (CI / CD integration, admission controllers, etc)</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Influence and define delivery timelines in alignment with our field and product teams while balancing speed, accuracy and precision</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Build instrumentation, observability, and analytics into the vulnerability services to support data-driven decisioning and incident response</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Work with leadership to trac</span><span style="font-weight:400;">k key performance, cost, and efficiency metrics as service level objectives (SLOs)</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Partner with our security modeling team to mutually enhance our detection quality and vulnerability reporting</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Build strong cross functional partnerships (field teams, CTO office, Tech Alliances, etc)</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Demonstrate good communication skills and present work to company leadership and at company-wide events</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Actively participate in recruiting and mentor new members of the team</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Strive to use readily available, general and scalable methodologies and tools; stay current with latest tools and techniques</span></li> </ul> <p> <strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Degree in quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research or other related field)</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">6+ years of experience with SaaS development and deployment using modern cloud platforms</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience developing data-intensive applications</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Hands-on design and development of Go and/or Java-based microservices</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Exposure to modern software delivery release models and associated tooling (CI/CD, monitoring, observability)</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience working with ambiguity, driving design and implementation to conclusion with limited supervision</span></li> </ul> <p> <strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD or equivalent experience) in quantitative field</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Knowledge of industry standard DevOps toolchains (continuous integration systems, build artifact registries, k8s control plane)</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Exposure to Redis or other in-memory database (memcached or etcd)</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Familiarity with cloud-based data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, etc)</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Familiarity with Rust for high-performance applications</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience with modern DevSecOps practices and trends</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience working in Cloud Security or Infrastructure Security</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience recruiting and mentoring other Engineers</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Cloud certifications or other demonstrable cloud domain knowledge</span></li> </ul> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Salary Range: $119k - $300k USD Annually + <a href="https://www.lacework.com/careers/" target="_blank">Benefits</a> + Bonus + Equity </span> </p> <p> <em> <span style="font-weight:400;">Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, education/training and skill level.</span> </em> </p> <p></p><div class="content-conclusion"> <p>Lacework is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of Lacework to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, political affiliations, marital status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, membership, or non-membership in an employee organization, or on the basis of personal favoritism or other non-merit factors, except where otherwise provided by law</p> </div>
Lacework is an equal opportunity employer.
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