Position: R&D Software Engineer, Cybersecurity field of research
Company: ZONE3000 (Namecheap)
Category: Security
Experience required: 3y
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

The aim of research and development (R&D) is to improve the current technologies offered by an organisation or to develop innovations that strengthen the organisation’s position in the marketplace. As a member of our R&D Team, you will be solving challenging problems and helping us to keep our product teams toolsets at the state-of-the-art level, ensuring that we use the best techniques available and push the limits of possible if needed.

You drive innovation in our development as a part of the team by setting up standards, advocating the latest industry trends & building the next-generation web applications.

Areas of interest for R&D team: software technologies (mainly JS / PHP / .NET), Cybersecurity, CI / CD, infrastructure, QA (automation, load)

Your main focus area: Drive innovations and provide solutions in scope (but not limited to) of the cybersecurity of our production services. You will be working closely with our Architect, Design System, UI / UX and Product development teams.

Requirements:

- Strong technical background with at least one of the following languages: JavaScript / Go / Java / PHP / Python
- Production experience with SQL / No-SQL databases, Message Brokers and their principles
- Distributed systems understanding, principles & patterns
- Understanding Logging, Monitoring, Alerting
- Strong knowledge of Linux (provisioning, bash scripting, patching)
- Network fundamentals
- Production experience in Docker and at least one of the orchestration tools (Kubernetes preferred)
- Solid experience with some of cloud platforms (AWS is preferred)
- CI / CD configuration experience (Jenkins is preferred)
- Comfortable with Infrastructure as Code designs (Terraform is preferred)

Will be a plus:

- Understanding of cryptography basics and protocols (SSL / TLS, authentication & authorization protocols, crypto algs.)
- Dealing with security vulnerabilities in common operating systems, web and applications, including knowledge of remediation procedures
- Understanding of a wide range of information security and IT methodologies, standards (e.g. CIS, ISO 27x, NIST, Cobit etc.), principles, technologies and tools (e.g. vulnerability scanners)
- Understanding of the OWASP top 10
- Practical experience with tools/services for Security in Cloud
- HashiCorp Vault
- Configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc)

Responsibilities:

- Developing & implementation a set of security standards and practices
- Analyze & remediate security findings

We offer:

- High & competitive salary
- Challenging work in an international professional environment
- Opportunity to influence software development process, to be the owner of the product in your field of expertise
- Opportunity to apply SAFe methodology
- Flexible management
- Relocation Bonus when moving from a different city / country
- Full benefits package: paid vacation and sick leave
- Continuous professional development (free internal and external professional trainings)
- Free English classes in the company office
- Free use of the services provided by Namecheap
- Quarterly teambuilding activities and company corporate events
- RDX gym membership
- Coffee, tea, fruits