We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on the user interface of our USM Anywhere Alien Apps Team. This 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 on a fast-paced release cycle.

The ideal candidate has a breadth of experience in helping architect and develop complex, visually stunning user interfaces using HTML, JavaScript (Node.js and AngularJS) and CSS. Experience programming in C, Scala, Python and other languages a big plus. And of course, if you have an interest and/or background in security, we should talk.

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 two years running (in fact, we were the only vendor in the visionary quadrant in 2013!).

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Collaborating with other senior members of the Engineering, User Experience and DevOps teams to develop our SaaS security products.
• Work with the architectural team on engineering best practices, standards, architectural approaches and complex technical resolutions for processes.
• Work with UX engineers and graphics designers to create and implement web user interface elements that adhere to our UX pattern library.
• Translation of UI/UX wireframes to visual elements.
• Use Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) efforts to ensure that deliverables are secure, scalable and reliable
• Implement key architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Work closely with the 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 may be assigned

WHAT YOU NEED:

• 5+ years of JavaScript experience.
• 8+ years software development and architecture experience.
• Pixel-perfect mockup execution.
• Experience consuming REST APIs.
• Self-starter with strong work ethic and ability to excel as part of a geographically diverse team.
• Writing unit tests.
• Fluency in English, Spanish a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

PREFERRED (Pluses):

• Understanding of these specifications: ECMA 5.2, HTTP/1.1, CORS
• Experience in building single page applications.
• Strong background in solving concurrency and horizontal scalability problems.
• Experience with high throughput, scalable, systems.
• Knowledge of enterprise security/threat intelligence/threat detection.
• Network security.
• Application security.
• Continuous Integration for Agile Development.
• Git, Webpack, D3.js, Karma, Jasmine, Robot Framework, ElasticSearch, AWS, Azure, Linux, VMWare.
• ECMA 6.

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.
• Live and work in beautiful Austin

ABOUT US:

Join the Alien Nation! 

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? We're a peace-loving bunch of extraterrestrials interested in nothing less than changing the world of security to be attainable to all organizations. 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. Join the revolution today!

• 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.
• Live and work in beautiful Austin, Texas.

So, if you are a hands-on Web Application Developer with a strong programming background and are looking to join a growth oriented company, please apply today. Interviews are being scheduled immediately.