Research SW Engineer

The role

You will build systems behind security research and turn research into product capabilities. You will work with researchers to own solutions from requirements and architecture through implementation and delivery.

What you will do

• Own the full development lifecycle of systems and applications
• Gather requirements, define technical specifications, design architecture, and build backend services and web interfaces
• Build threat intelligence, malware hunting and attack analysis platforms
• Build tools for researchers to investigate threats, develop security content and create detection signatures
• Design workflows and infrastructure to bring research outputs into customer-facing products
• Build scalable data processing and analysis solutions on the Cato Cloud data warehouse
• Automate protocol analysis and integrate with internal and external services

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of server-side development in Python
• 3+ years of web development with modern frameworks
• Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals, including system architecture, code design and end-to-end development
• Proven ability to turn stakeholder needs into clear requirements and working technical solutions
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL and Redis
• Ability to use AI tools effectively in daily engineering work and critically evaluate their output
• Strong ownership, initiative and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with fluent English
• BSc in Computer Science or a related field

Nice to have

• Experience with React
• Experience with big-data technologies such as Apache Spark
• Background in security or networking

About the company

Cato Networks is the converged network and security cloud for the AI era. The company provides a unified, cloud-native platform to prioritize risks and stop threats in real time.