The Opportunity

We are growing the runZero Research team and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in developing the runZero product. Our research team works to convert cutting-edge security research into happy customers. You will be working as part of a team focused on building and supporting a state-of-the-art asset and network discovery platform.

What You’ll Do

• Write signatures to identify devices, services, and software based on the information extracted by the runZero scan engine.
• Research new ways to identify devices and assets, and add those capabilities to the runZero platform by writing Go code.
• Analyze network traffic and write network protocol parsers and probes in Go to be integrated into the runZero platform.
• Stay up to date with the threat intelligence landscape, to help us know what threats may be important to our customers.
• Periodically contribute to research blogs and webcasts.
• Have an opinion, play well with others, work hard, and enjoy being a core member of a growing startup!

Skills You Have

• You are proficient at writing advanced Go and working with large Go codebases
• You have an excellent understanding of modern networking protocols and network analysis tools (e.g. Wireshark).
• A love (or at least fond tolerance) of regular expressions.
• A strong desire to understand how things work “behind the scenes.”
• Familiarity with SQL and querying large databases would be extremely helpful.
• Proficiency with standard development tools and paradigms (Git, GitHub, CI/CD, etc.).
• Experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to other Engineers.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving with strong decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Salary Range

runZero values transparency in the hiring process. According to our market data, we’re expecting this role to come in at a salary of about $160k - $190k, plus stock options. We know that the talent market is always in flux, so please let us know if you believe we have advertised this role at the wrong salary band. 

For more information on what it's like to work at runZero, please visit our employee spotlight page!