Senior Security Backend Engineer
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We are looking for a strong Senior Security Backend Engineer to join our Security Research Team.
This role focuses on building the infrastructure behind large-scale open-source intelligence, package ecosystem monitoring, and supply-chain threat detection. It is a highly autonomous individual contributor role, with end-to-end ownership of projects that turn security research prototypes into scalable production systems.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable scraping and ingestion pipelines for public package registries such as NPM, PyPI, and similar ecosystems
- Design and maintain distributed systems using APIs, workers, queues, and databases
- Develop detection mechanisms for:
- malicious install hooks
- embedded binaries
- obfuscation techniques
- suspicious package behavior
- Build and improve risk-scoring algorithms to prioritize real threats
- Work closely with security researchers to productionize detection capabilities
Requirements
Must Have
- 5+ years of backend development experience with Python and/or Node.js / TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with large-scale scraping systems
- Strong knowledge of distributed architectures, including:
- queues
- workers
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Production experience with Docker / docker-compose
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to work autonomously
Full professional English proficiency
Strong Advantage
- Malware analysis or reverse engineering experience
- Familiarity with ELF, PE, or Mach-O formats
Background in security research or software supply-chain security
Nice to Have
- CTF participation
- Bug bounty experience
- OSCP / OSWE certifications
- Experience at companies in application security, supply-chain security, or developer security tooling
- Kafka and large-scale ETL experience
Required languages
| English | B2 - Upper Intermediate |
Python, Node.js, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis
Published 14 May
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