Head of Security Engineering – Malware Research
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Strategic Head of Malware Research leading security engineering for a global cybersecurity product company. Overseeing malware detection engine and cloud analysis infrastructure with a focus on operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end pipeline - from ingestion of 10M+ unique daily samples to real-time verdict delivery on global server fleets.
- Define the roadmap for malware analysis, automated signature generation, and ML-driven classification.
- Guide decisions on massive-scale data processing using Airflow, Kafka, ClickHouse, and modern Python/Rust stacks.
- Drive the integration of LLMs and transformers for automated code analysis and malware rule creation.
- Mentor and scale a multi-disciplinary department across three global teams, fostering a culture of operational excellence and rapid incident response.
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading security labs or product departments, successfully managing the bridge between pure research and production-ready security features.
- 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a "manager of managers" or multi-team leadership role.
- Deep credibility in static/dynamic analysis, heuristic engines, and the lifecycle of false-positive/negative remediation.
- Professional experience with distributed data engineering (Airflow, message queues like Kafka/RabbitMQ) and high-volume storage/DB architectures (Ceph, ClickHouse, MongoDB).
- Experience managing CI/CD for security products where release quality is critical to maintaining global infrastructure uptime.
- Comfortable working in a 100% remote, geographically distributed environment.
- Expertise in web infrastructure security (securing large-scale web server environments and multi-tenant platforms).
- Experience applying Machine Learning (Transformers, LLMs) to code analysis and threat detection.
- Deep knowledge of PHP internals or dynamic analysis via sandboxing/emulation.
- Practical experience with GCP (Secret Manager, Cloud Storage) in a security context.
Benefits:
- Salary: Competitive compensation package based on seniority and expertise, discussed individually with successful candidates.
- Work Mode: 100% Remote (Global).
- Timezone: Primarily CET ±
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