Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with OverWatch engineering members to build, develop, and maintain operational systems, projects, and tools.
• Be comfortable with projects to build new components and extend the current system.
• Help the OverWatch team become more effective in their analysis and hunting by improving the platform and tools.
• Bring research projects into production environments and integrate them with the OWL systems.
• Work in a DevOps environment where you (and your team) are responsible for the systems you deploy. This will involve an on-call rota.
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Have a desire for quality and understand what tools and processes you need to reach that level and help the team reach a higher bar.
• Be an adaptable and flexible engineer who is constantly learning and enjoys tackling complex and novel challenges.
• Use and give back to the open source community.
• Work as part of a distributed team of remote workers across timezones.

What You'll Use

• Go (Golang)
• Python
• AWS
• Postgres
• ElasticSearch
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Many external and internal APIs

What You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience).
• Experience with Golang or another language for developing web backends and pipelines (such as Python/Ruby/etc) or compiled languages like Rust or C++.
• Built web-services with data processing pipelines and the concepts required.
• Experience with relational and noSQL databases (Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch a plus).
• Understanding of messaging or queueing software, Kafka experience helpful but not required.
• Linux skills and experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.
• Understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, particularly in Cloud environments such as AWS.
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

Bonus Points

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.