Cylake
Endpoint Engineer
Sunnyvale
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$250kDetected 138 days ago
RustDistributed SystemsLinuxCybersecurityDetection EngineeringCommunication
About the role
- You will architect a lightweight, highly resilient agent capable of deep OS introspection, autonomous threat prevention, and sophisticated offline telemetry spooling.
Responsibilities
- Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up.
- Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world class team.
- You will tackle complex challenges in user-mode hooking, kernel-level behavioral analysis, anti-tampering, and distributed systems design to deliver a seamless, high-performance security client.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in systems-level programming and architecting highly concurrent applications
- Experience with cross-platform endpoint telemetry collection utilizing Linux eBPF and macOS ESF
- Proven experience in dynamic binary instrumentation, user-mode API interception, and process injection
- Experience designing and optimizing low-overhead threat detection heuristics directly on the endpoint
- Knowledge of Windows kernel-mode components, specifically designing File Filter Drivers for data-in-motion tracking
- Experience architecting resilient distributed systems with offline disk spooling and secure mTLS synchronization
Nice to have
- Experience with Microsoft Anti-Malware vendor registration (ELAM, PPL) is a plus
- Experience with browser extension development or DOM hooking is a plus
Skills
- Strong Rust programming skills with a focus on high-performance, low-level OS integrations
Compensation
- We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees' health, well-being, and long-term success.
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