Security Intelligence Engineer - Entry level

Profile

Lookout is an integrated endpoint-to-cloud security company. Our mission is to secure and empower our digital future in a privacy-focused world where mobility and cloud are essential to all we do for work and play. We enable consumers and employees to protect their data, and to securely stay connected without violating their privacy and trust. Lookout is trusted by millions of consumers, the largest enterprises and government agencies, and partners such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Amsterdam, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
At Lookout, we build amazing products that help people all over the world stay safe while using their mobile devices. Every day, we're hard at work inventing new technologies and ideas that allow Lookout to be extremely simple to use, and remarkably effective. Plus, the problems we get to work on are challenging and real fun.
As a Software Engineer on the Security Intelligence team at Lookout, You will work on one of the following cross-functional teams:
Security Intelligence Research:
As an engineer on the research team in security Intelligence, you will work to discover malware infecting hundreds of thousands of people and be the person responsible for fighting it.
You will gain invaluable experience by reverse engineering all kinds of mobile applications.
Research ongoing developments in the mobile threat space and identify major sources of distribution, apps, metadata, and more.
Security Intelligence Engineering
Build tools to analyze the largest corpus of mobile apps anywhere in the world.
Engage in unit, functional, integration and other forms of automated testing to ensure the timely release of production ready software.
Build highly scalable, concurrent web services.
Develop elegant, scalable, robust, and maintainable code, using Scala / Java.
Contribute significantly to the development of our analysis platform, including designing architecture, estimating, and delivering a high quality solution that can scale to hundreds of millions of users.
As a Software Engineer at Lookout, you need:
Strong coding abilities.
Excellent communication and problem solving abilities.
Desire to be part of an agile, collaborative team environment.
Strong interest in TDD and automation.
Willingness to take initiative, and pitch in wherever needed.
Additional points:
Previous experience creating useful mobile applications.
Standout qualities which signal an exceptional ability to code (i.e. notable side projects, ACM or other programming / math / computing competitions, contributions to open-source software).
Experience creating or working with highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems
Experience with IDA/Reversing code.
Reasons we love working at Lookout:
You'll work directly with people who lead the mobile security industry.
We're building something great and very different and are growing at an even faster pace. Tens of millions of users depend on Lookout to secure their mobile devices and their private data; we've built powerful crawlers that pull in and analyze tens of thousands of apps per day! The things we create push the Android framework past what any other app or company can do today.
We've got smart people working without bureaucracy, allowing everyone to express themselves in the team and contribute to the overall success of the team.

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