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Sr. Staff Software Engineer

United States, Santa Clara Employment contract 126000.00 - 204500.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 03, 2026
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As a Sr Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test. Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions.

Job Responsibility

  • Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
  • Design and implement real-time security services to our customers
  • Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
  • Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
  • Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
  • Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native solutions
  • Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
  • Mentoring junior developers

Requirements

  • BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 5+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
  • Hands-on, software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems
  • Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang
  • Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes
  • Proven experience building and maintaining high-scale server-side applications on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure and designing cloud-native solutions
  • Experience in leading and doing projects end to end
  • Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
  • Experience with data infrastructure platforms
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery
  • Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub
  • Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
  • Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute

Nice to have

  • Exposure to using AI tools and technologies for productivity and building AI agents
  • Knowledge of AI/ML pipelines, Data Science principles, and related technologies
  • Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal
  • Knowledge of the DevOps workflow
  • Experience with REST API design, development, and consumption, along with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines

What we offer

  • Restricted stock units
  • Bonus
  • Employee benefits
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