[Hiring] Staff Backend Software Engineer @Lookout Inc

Role Description

As a Software Engineer on the Security Intelligence team, you will contribute broadly to the detection engines, analysis systems, and other core intellectual property at Lookout. This position is an opportunity to take on some of the most interesting challenges in the company and join the team that provides the fundamental technological building blocks of the Security Platform that underlies Lookout’s category-defining personal and enterprise products. Lookout’s Security Platform is capable of analyzing millions of apps on a daily basis. Our analysis is trusted by Google to help identify potentially harmful applications before they enter the Play Store and by the world’s leading telecommunications providers to protect their customers.

In this role, you will work closely with Lookout’s security research, data ingestion, and machine learning teams to:

• Enable threat hunting for state level security actors and their infrastructure.
• Support processing of continuously acquired Android and iOS applications.
• Identify components and functionality of mobile applications that can be used to determine their behavior and evaluate possible privacy risks.
• Invent new app analysis techniques, engines, and domain specific languages.
• Participate in hackathons and innovation fairs.

Qualifications

• A strong motivation for self-directed learning, while collaborating with experts across Lookout engineering teams.
• Experience designing/implementing large-scale, distributed, production class software on public cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Functional programming experience is highly desired.
• Desire and ability to work across platforms and languages.
• A quality-oriented mindset with a strong commitment to automated testing, metrics collection, monitoring, and continuous improvement in all of your work.
• Ability to drive features from conception to deployment in an agile team with continual delivery.
• 8+ years of overall development experience.
• BS degree in Computer Science or similar Engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience.

Requirements

• Scalable distributed systems design.
• Reverse engineering of mobile applications and runtimes.
• Mobile devices and platforms.
• ML based data analysis support.

Benefits

• Base + bonus + equity + benefits.
• Canadian base salary range: $130,000 — $170,000 CAD.

Company Description

Lookout, Inc. is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader delivering advanced protection for the most vulnerable element of any enterprise security strategy — human error and manipulation. Cloud-native by design, the Lookout platform offers rapid, scalable deployment and simplified security operations, defending the frontline of human-centric attacks—the mobile device.

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