Staff Software Engineer - Java/Python
Staff Software Engineer - Java/Python
Lookout is a cybersecurity company that makes it possible for individuals and enterprises to be both mobile and secure. With 100s of million mobile sensors fueling a dataset of virtually all the mobile code in the world, the Lookout Security Cloud can identify connections that would otherwise go unseen - predicting and stopping mobile attacks before they do harm. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices around the world. To learn more, visit www.lookout.com.
Lookout’s backend system supports a massive volume of data and an increasingly high level of demand, from data ingestion to delivery to dynamic analysis. We’re looking for talented and motivated engineers to build core components and services, as well as to contribute to evolving the architecture. We’re a small team working on a very large, modern system with a user base of millions, so you’ll get to work on a cutting-edge product and service on a large scale. We’re responsible for building and maintaining several of the services powering the various Lookout applications. We build services in Python, Ruby, Java, Scala and are hosted on AWS and GCP and firmly believe in using the cloud to our advantage.
Responsibilities
Design, build and maintain backend services, gateways, libraries providing high-performance, high-availability APIs to frontend developers, mobile client teams, external partners.
Create new services and extend existing ones in our large scale SOA architecture.
Conduct unit, functional, integration, and other forms of automated testing
Help us meet aggressive performance and scalability goals keeping us ahead of dramatic growth in the space
Help us define the Lookout user experience to continue to delight our users
Requirements
8+ years of experience with an engineering degree in Computer Science or related degree
Excellent coding in Java and/or Python and an ability to learn/advance rapidly, transitioning from other programming languages
Experience implementing RESTful and WebSocket based services with API's
Strong object oriented design ability
You're a quick and avid learner
You’re a natural problem solver
You get things done and like moving at a fast pace
You’re an excellent communicator and are able to get your point across clearly and concisely, day to day among your teammates, as well as when writing code
Skilled at troubleshooting – you appreciate the value of testing and can resolve the trickiest of issues, and take the initiative to pitch in and help as issues arise
Experience operating production systems on Linux/Ubuntu
Nice to have:
Understanding of network security (TLS, SAML, PKI)
Systems Integration Experience: MQ, Kafka, Hibernate, Redis
Experience with Regular Expressions (Regex) based data processing
Experience with processing data in XML, JSON and YAML formats
Cloud expertise (AWS, GCP)
Experience with parsing code, structured data, and document formats
Experience with microservices and cloud platforms (Docker, AWS, GCP)
Experience with Git, Jira, Jenkins
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