Senior Software Engineer

Corelight

Remote Eligibility

Hybrid

Domain

Product

State

California

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Job Description

Posted on:

March 3, 2025

Primary NIST Speciality

NIST Sub-speciality

Seniority

Experienced

Salary ($K)

154

183

Summary and company overview

Summary

By making evidence the heart of security, we help customers stay ahead of ever-changing cyber-attacks.

Corelight is a distributed first cybersecurity startup in the network detection and response (NDR) market. Our technology helps defend some of the world's most sensitive, mission-critical organizations and gives defenders a commanding view of their environment - so they can outsmart and outlast adversaries. Corelight's unfair market advantages include our unique architecture built on open source Zeek, as well as our founding team - which includes Zeek's inventor and its key open source committers. We aim to follow in the footsteps of successful open source security companies such as Sourcefire and Tenable, and help make the world's networks safer.

In this role, you will contribute to the development of the next-generation sensor product, focusing on product services (install/upgrade, manageability, telemetry, etc) and the framework for integrating network scanners from other teams for use across appliance, virtual, and cloud offerings.

In this role you will contribute to the development of the next-generation sensor product, focusing on product services (install/upgrade, manageability, telemetry, etc) and the framework for integrating Corelight’s Network Detection and Response (NDR) data with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools

Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise in planning, development, and execution of software efforts
Design and implement functionality with appropriate testing coverage
Engage in code-review and architectural analysis exercises
Engineer services in various languages, mainly Golang, in a Kubernetes environment

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications

5+ years of Enterprise software design, development, and release experience.
5+ years of development experience with two or more of the following languages: Golang, Python, Rust
2+ years of design and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Containers, and Helm
Experience working with high-volume messaging systems like Kafka, NATS Jetstream, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
Experience with Git for version control.
Effective communicator and ability to collaborate across stakeholders
Possess strong organizational skills, both for yourself and for the team while working with many people in a fast-paced environment
Enjoys getting things done!

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics is a plus
Experience with Gitlab CI is a plus
Experience with Zeek or Suricata is a plus

Additional commentary

We are proud of our culture and values - driving diversity of background and thought, low-ego results, applied curiosity and tireless service to our customers and community. Corelight is committed to a geographically dispersed yet connected employee base with employees working from home and office locations around the world. Fueled by an accelerating revenue stream, and investments from top-tier venture capital organizations such as Crowdstrike, Accel and Insight - we are rapidly expanding our team.

Check us out at www.corelight.com

Notice of Pay Transparency:

The compensation for this position may vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. Depending on the nature and seniority of the role, a percentage of compensation may come in the form of a commission-based or discretionary bonus. Equity and additional benefits will also be awarded.