✨ About The Role
- The Principal Engineer will be responsible for developing network intrusion detection capabilities for VMware's vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention.
- The role involves monitoring production systems and responding to issues as they arise.
- The engineer will contribute to tooling that tracks threat coverage and develops new detection capabilities.
- Responsibilities include maintaining a simple UI frontend for tooling and managing operations in a GCP/k8s environment.
- The position requires writing unit tests and using static analysis tools to ensure high-quality code.
âš¡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate is passionate about threat research and has a methodical approach to managing and analyzing large datasets.
- Extensive experience with the Python programming language is essential, particularly in working with large codebases.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes (k8s) and Docker concepts is required, along with experience managing deployments in Google Cloud.
- A strong understanding of network intrusion detection systems, particularly Suricata IDPS, is preferred.
- The candidate should be comfortable extending APIs and writing OpenAPI specifications.