CareerPlan

Security Software Engineer

5 LocationsRemoteFull-time$102k–$214k2026-07-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, tooling, and analysis environments for the Threat Research team to investigate advanced malware and intrusion techniques.

Role type

Security Software Engineer (Threat Research Infrastructure)

Builds

Internal tools, network traffic inspection systems, and analysis environments for threat researchers

Domain

Cybersecurity / Threat Intelligence / Network Security

Required skills

Network traffic inspection (Wireshark, tcpdump, Moloch), Virtualization (VMware, VirtualBox, KVM), Scripting (Lua, Python), Regular expressions/PCRE, Web application development (React), RESTful API design, Database management (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB), Data pipeline/ETL, Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Preferred skills

React, Python, Lua

Technologies

Wireshark, tcpdump, Moloch, VMware, VirtualBox, KVM, Lua, Python, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, React

Responsibilities

Evaluate and support changes to the Threat Analysis environment, Analyze needs and create internal tools, Support the team researching new and past threats including malware and exploit kits

Seniority

Mid-level to Senior, hands-on IC