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Software Engineer (Generalist) at StackRox - Mountain View, United States

Job Description

Are you passionate about building high performant products or using cutting edge technologies? Are you interested in defining our products, working closely with Product Management, in a fast-paced Agile environment? Are you looking to be impactful and contribute to engineering initiatives to achieve product goals with excellence? StackRox has an opportunity for you where you can contribute your skills, expertise, ingenuity and passion to help us succeed in our mission!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a software engineer who is skilled in building large scale distributed software systems that are highly performant while reducing the cost of deployment in cloud infrastructures. The ideal candidate cares deeply about performance, resource footprint, elegant coding with a great understanding of data structures and algorithms for enterprise-grade products, and is a fearless experimenter with a willingness to try new things. You'll fit right in if you like solving challenging problems by architecting elegant solutions, designing algorithms and writing code.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering, algorithm design and systems development
• Experience developing in Golang, C/C++, Java, or Python, with a language agnostic attitude toward development
• Strong ability to define problems, formulate solutions, effectively collaborate and communicate, plan and execute
• Ability to work boldly with a sense of urgency: embrace mistakes, learn from them, and help drive the team toward success

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes, and Linux containerization technology
• Experience with private and public cloud design considerations in the areas of virtualization, distributed systems, load balancing and networking, large scale data storage, and/or security
• Experience with distributed system orchestrators, scalable messaging systems, and large throughput data processing systems
• Experience with low level Linux containerization subsystems (cgroups, namespaces), other containerization/virtualization systems, or related subsystems like scheduling or networking
• Expertise with a broad range of data structures, algorithms, and software design, with strong debugging skills

ABOUT US

StackRox helps enterprises secure their cloud-native applications at scale from container build and deployment through runtime. Founded in 2014 by Sameer Bhalotra (former White House senior director for cybersecurity) and Ali Golshan (former co-founder and CTO of Cyphort), StackRox has assembled a team of experts in security, infrastructure, and machine learning. StackRox enables security teams to centralize container deployment governance, visualize the container attack surface, expose malicious activity, and stop attacker activity. It combines a new security architecture, machine learning, and protective actions to disrupt attacks in real time and limit their impact. Partnered with Docker, Amazon, Google, IBM and Red Hat, StackRox is the choice of both Global 2000 and emerging cloud-native enterprise companies.