As a member of The Alien Nation, you will be entering an exciting growth stage company with offices in Austin, San Mateo, Spain and Ireland. We're on a mission to provide organizations throughout the universe with highly intelligent security that is affordable and simple to use. We founded AlienVault to help organizations of all shapes and sizes achieve world-class security without the headaches and huge expense of other solutions. And we are passionate about our mission! Interested in joining our Alien Nation?

AlienVault builds security software for global customers throughout North/South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Besides having the opportunity to work for an award-winning company offering an award-winning product, you’ll have a chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the security industry. Our executives and security researchers are regularly quoted in the press, and we’ve been positioned a “Visionary” by Gartner in the SIEM Magic Quadrant for the last five years running (in fact, we were the only vendor in the visionary quadrant in 2013!).

We are seeking a Senior SDK Engineer to help define, build and deploy a brand new SDK for our SaaS product, USM Anywhere. The ideal candidate will become a core part of a team of talented engineers building innovative security software products. This is a highly technical position for someone that is comfortable working in a fast-paced release cycle.

The ideal candidate has a breadth of experience helping architect and develop 3rd party integration API’s for a large, distributed software systems. Prior experience in API/SDK development using Java and REST endpoints is required. Also, experience working directly with 3rd party developers is a must have.  And of course, if you have an interest and/or background in security, we should definitely talk.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Collaborating with other senior technology leaders to develop architectural roadmaps while providing expertise on the platform architecture.
• Providing expertise on engineering best practices, standards, architectural approaches and complex technical resolutions for processes.
• Architecting systems for app lifecycle management, speed, security, and performance.
• Focusing on the developer experience, from app development and workflow, app submission and verification, to app deployment.
• Design, develop, deploy, manage and version AlienVault’s core AlienApp APIs, state-of-the-art web-based tools, and an SDK that will enable internal and 3rd party developers to create and deploy new cyber security applications.
• Working with our Business Development team to vet, train and build 3rd party AlienApps.
• Participate in quality improvement using Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) efforts to ensure that deliverables are secure, scalable and reliable
• Work closely with the CTO/SVP Engineering and Engineering Team Leaders to plan and execute software engineering development cycles in an Agile environment.
• Lead and build strong global software development engineering teams and a strong, positive software engineering culture.
• All other duties and responsibilities and may be assigned

WHAT YOU NEED:

●        8+ years software development and architecture experience.

●        5+ years Java experience

●        3+ years SDK development experience (REST, XML, JSON)

●        Experience architecting and developing safe, secure and performant API’s

●        Excellent software debugging skills and experience

●        Self-starter with strong work ethic and ability to excel as part of a geographically diverse team.

●        Self-motivated with a passion for problem solving and an aptitude for customer happiness

●        Comfortable with Agile development practices like unit tests, and code reviews.

●        Fluency in English, Spanish a plus

●        Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

●        Knowledge of enterprise security/threat intelligence/threat detection a big plus.

●        Experience in Network security is a plus.

●        Experience with application security a plus

●        Experience using RAML a plus.

●        Bonus for development experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other front-end development technologies

●        Functional programming experience

●        Open source security tools: OSSEC, snort, Metasploit, Nessus

●        Tools: Github or similar, Sphinx, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Valgrind, Fortify

WHAT YOU GET:

• A competitive compensation that includes base salary + equity
• The opportunity to build innovative, scalable technologies with the global leader in unified security management
• Work with a company that has been won numerous industry awards and is recognized as a Visionary SEIM vendor.
• Work for a company with proven year-over-year growth and thousands of customers in a huge market.
• Live and work in beautiful Austin, Texas.

So, if you are a hands-on Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in developing, deploying and working with 3rd parties on SDK’s and you want to join one of Austin’s most exciting, growing companies, please apply today. Interviews are being scheduled immediately.