Distinguished Security Engineer
Company Overview: Are you ready to disrupt the status quo in pursuit of something more? At Praetorian, we are bringing together the world's brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem and creating the next wave of innovation. From cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles, we apply expertise and engineering to identify, mitigate and ultimately solve our customer's challenges. Our accolades include Inc’s Best Places to Work and Fastest Growing Companies for 7 years running.
Career opportunity:
- Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
- Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
- Partner with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
- Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has real impact
- Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move
Core responsibilities:
- 75% of the time you will:
- Create new product and service capabilities to meet emerging customer needs
- Optimize existing product and service capabilities to ensure quality, consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness
- Provide subject matter expertise and advise and assist operations to product, engineering, and services
- 25% of the time you will:
- Lead challenging service engagements with complex technology stacks across multiple modalities
- Interface with clients, establish technical competency, and deliver complex projects
- Attracting and qualifying top 1% talent into the organization
Accountable for:
- Individual research and development objectives and key results
- Individual thought leadership objectives and key results
- Individual utilization objectives and key result
- Individual project net promoter score objectives and key results
Required qualifications:
- 20+ years of cyber security experience
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Software dev and/or hardware design experience with an ability to cute code
- Demonstrated expertise in core software & hardware security patterns
- BS in computer science, engineering, physics, or mathematics
Desired qualifications:
- Track record in vulnerability research and CVE assignments
- Track record presenting at major and respectable conferences
- Referenceable body of patentable innovation and/or published papers
- Up-to-date knowledge base of current academic and security industry research
- Background in reverse engineering, binary analysis, and vulnerability research
- Background in operating systems, embedded systems, and distributed systems
- Background in machine learning, predictive/descriptive statistical data analysis, and neural networks
- MS or PhD in computer science, engineering, physics, or mathematics
Desired behaviors:
- Obtains fulfillment in helping people do their best technical work
- Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
- Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
- Comfort dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
- Ability to work within constraints and to challenge the status quo
- Ability to self-direct work, orient to action, and truly own the position in a hyper-growth environment
If this position is wildly successful, in one year you will have:
- Successfully delivered r&d milestones under rotational program
- Published 80% of developed capabilities to move the industry forward
- Achieved 25% or greater service engagement utilization
- Achieved 90% or greater net promotor score
Compensation & Benefits:
- Highly competitive salary
- Employee stock option plan
- Annual budget for training, certifications, and conferences
- 90% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on health insurance premiums
- 100% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on dental and vision insurance premiums
- 4% company 401K matching vested immediately
- 6-16 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave
Targeted Base Salary:
- Annual Base of 200K - 220K
- To account for higher cost of living areas, we have modified our salaries for the following metropolitan areas:
- Seattle: 232K - 255K
- New York: 242K - 266K
- Boston: 210K - 231K
- San Francisco: 266K - 292K
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Praetorian. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.