Principal Software Engineer (Redwood City, CA)

Company Description

Anomali, a world-renowned platform leader in Security Operations, supercharges SecOps by fusing Lightspeed Security Analytics, Industry-Leading Cyberthreat Intelligence (CTI), AI-based automated threat hunting, alert orchestration, automated threat detection and incident response (TDIR) blocking, community intelligence sharing, exposure management, and dark web protection. Transforming CISOs into superheroes and analysts into SOC terminators.

Anomali's Platform offers: “Match” Next-Gen SIEM, “Lens” AI Threat Hunter, “ThreatStream” TIP, Anomali Integrator, Anomali ISAC, Anomali Attack Surface Management, and Anomali Digital Risk Protection, infused with Anomali AI.

Anomali bridges the gap between point solutions (EDR, NDR, SSE, RMM, CAASM, etc.) and replaces legacy SIEMs at 50% the cost, giving analysts easy-to-use tools that enable lightspeed detection & response. Anomali addresses the global shortage in cyber talent by empowering analysts to contain, eradicate, and block threats in seconds without complex SIEM queries, manual blocks, or long investigations.

Anomali delivers as a proprietary platform and disruptor to the security analytics world. Anomali can search billions of logs in seconds, correlating tens of millions of IoCs and IoAs across years of telemetry and logs often deleted or moved to cold storage. At every point across the cyber kill chain, Anomali supercharges the SOC to detect, contain, and eradicate threats before organizational impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

1. Design, architect and implement complex software and framework to deliver security analytics features primarily in SaaS and as needed in the Virtual Appliance form factors.
2. Define best practices for SaaS development to release and deliver complex functionality in a controlled and methodical manner with minimal impact to the customers.
3. Influence and shape the future products by contributing to the architecture/framework across multiple product lines.
4. Evaluate and recommend technology solutions to meet scalability and growth targets, create prototypes, create and carry out phased development and deployment plans.
5. Lead a team of software engineers in a cross-functional environment to deliver on complex projects.
6. Lead engineering efforts on customer issues, identify the root cause and deliver solutions with high quality in a timely manner.
7. Execute with agility in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

1. BSc/BEng/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
2. 10+ years of software development experience with 5+ years in the distributed system environment.
3. Proficient with Python, Java, C/C++ or another modern OOP language used for scalable distributed system backend development.
4. Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, cache such as Redis, message bus such as RabbitMQ etc.
5. Data analytics pipeline development for structured/semi-structured/unstructured data (security analytics preferred).
6. Cloud native development experience in any of AWS, GCP, Azure (AWS Preferred).
7. Experience delivering software with observability baked into the system including creation of observability dashboard, metrics, alerts etc in tools such as NewRelic, Splunk, DataDog etc.

Desired Skills/Experience:

1. Experience with enterprise security products, such as SIEMs, Proxies, Content-Aware Firewalls, IDS/IPS, host monitoring systems, etc. is a plus.
2. Python framework (Django, Flask, DRF etc.).

Equal Opportunities Monitoring

It is our policy to ensure that all eligible persons have equal opportunity for employment and advancement on the basis of their ability, qualifications and aptitude. We select those suitable for appointment solely on the basis of merit without regard to an individual's disability, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or status as a protected veteran. Monitoring is carried out to ensure that our equal opportunity policy is effectively implemented.

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Compensation Transparency

$190,000 - $220,000 USD.

Please note that the annual base salary range is a guideline and, for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location, as well as, knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for benefits, and may be eligible for equity.