Staff Backend Software Engineer (Java/Scala)

Staff Backend Software Engineer (Java/Scala)

As a Software Engineer on the Security Intelligence team, you will contribute broadly to the detection engines, analysis systems, and other core intellectual property at Lookout. This position is an opportunity to take on some of the most interesting challenges in the company and join the team that provides the fundamental technological building blocks of the Security Platform that underlies Lookout’s category-defining personal and enterprise products. Lookout’s Security Platform is capable of analyzing millions of apps on a daily basis. Our analysis is trusted by Google to help identify potentially harmful applications before they enter the Play Store and by the world’s leading telecommunications providers to protect their customers. These are challenging problems and you must be open-minded to tackling new exploratory areas as well as evolving and continually improving key existing systems. You may be called on to work in high scale cloud systems, or directly on mobile platforms.

We're looking for a motivated engineer who has experience building, monitoring, and maintaining high-volume, low-latency distributed SaaS solutions. You will be a member of the team that is responsible for a massively scalable platform that performs static analysis of iOS and Android applications, applying behavioral and malware detection policy.

In this role, you will work closely with Lookout’s security research, data ingestion, and machine learning teams to:

• Enable threat hunting for state level security actors and their infrastructure.
• Support processing of continuously acquired Android and iOS applications.
• Identify components and functionality of mobile applications that can be used to determine their behavior and evaluate possible privacy risks.
• Invent new app analysis techniques, engines, and domain specific languages.
• Participate in hackathons and innovation fairs.

Requirements for this position:

• A strong motivation for self-directed learning, while collaborating with experts across Lookout engineering teams, to take on challenges in areas such as:
  • Scalable distributed systems design.
  • Reverse engineering of mobile applications and runtimes.
  • Mobile devices and platforms.
  • ML based data analysis support.
• Experience designing/implementing large-scale, distributed, production class software on public cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: object-oriented design.