Staff Software Engineer - Phishing and Content Protection Engines

Profile

Lookout is an integrated endpoint-to-cloud security company. Our mission is to secure and empower our digital future in a privacy-focused world where mobility and cloud are essential to all we do for work and play. We enable consumers and employees to protect their data, and to securely stay connected without violating their privacy and trust. Lookout is trusted by millions of consumers, the largest enterprises and government agencies, and partners such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Amsterdam, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
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. These are challenging problems and you must be open-minded to tackling new exploratory areas as well as evolving and continually improving key existing systems.
We're looking for senior engineers who have experience building, monitoring, and maintaining high-volume, low-latency distributed SaaS solutions. We believe in agile software development, metrics, short feedback loops, well-designed APIs, test-driven development, automation wherever possible, and all sorts of other things to make sure we can minimize friction and focus on solving the big problems. You will be a member of the team that is responsible for a massively scalable platform that acquires and analyses domains/web content for the purpose of classification and delivers data sets to internal and user-facing applications.
What you’ll do:
Develop elegant, scalable, robust, and maintainable code for best-in-class security services, using Java, and/or Scala.
Work closely with our Security Research teams to develop the tools that support our most critical research initiatives and content development workflows.
Resolve bugs and conduct code fixes
Conduct design and code reviews
Lead by example, demonstrating software craftsmanship and best practices
Requirements:
Strong development background in Java and/or Scala.
Experience in developing, planning, and executing RESTful web services and/or stream message processing systems.
Experience working with SQL DBs (MySQL, Postgres) in the context of web services, with a big plus for candidates who also have NoSQL DB experience (Bigtable, Redis)
8 years of overall development experience in designing/implementing large-scale, distributed. production class software on public cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
Discipline for testing and automation - unit, functional, integration, and other forms of automated testing
Collaborative attitude, with an interest in growing a strong engineering team and culture: everything from hiring great people, to mentoring junior engineers, to fine-tuning process as necessary
Stellar communication skills, able to work well with a smart, passionate, and growing team
Bonus Points:
Experience with DevOps tools
Experience with AWS primitives such as Redis, NLB, DynamoDB, Arora and SWF.
Experience with GCP primitives such as BigTable, BigQuery is a plus.
Experience with building secure systems
Fault tolerance and self-healing systems
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