Security Developer & Researcher

We are seeking an experienced Security Developer & Researcher to innovate and deliver security technologies for enterprise database platforms. The position blends exploratory research with deep systems engineering: discovering weaknesses and protection needs, devising effective algorithms and mechanisms, and turning promising ideas into robust product capabilities. This is an individual-contributor role with end-to-end technical ownership, from investigation and experimentation through C/C++ implementation, validation, and optimization. The work involves close collaboration with engineering, research, and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Investigate challenging database and systems-security problems, including attack surfaces, exploitation paths, and gaps in existing controls.

• Formulate new security approaches, design algorithms and enforcement mechanisms, and assess their correctness, effectiveness, and practical trade-offs.

• Build prototypes, run experiments, and develop production-quality C/C++ software on Linux that integrates security capabilities into complex platforms.

• Own solutions across the full development cycle: technical design, implementation, testing, performance tuning, and production readiness.

• Engineer protections spanning access control, authentication, authorization, encryption, auditability, and sensitive-data handling.

• Apply threat modeling, adversarial testing, code review, and security analysis to improve resilience against real-world threats.

• Work with researchers, product managers, engineers, and customers to turn security needs and research results into deployable technology.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience.

• Extensive C/C++ programming experience on Linux, including low-level debugging and complex systems development.

• Demonstrated ability to conceive, evaluate, and implement algorithms or novel technical mechanisms for difficult engineering problems.

• Substantial experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, or the development of security-sensitive software.

• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, system architecture, operating systems, and software performance.

• Experience taking technically ambitious concepts from investigation and proof of concept to reliable, maintainable production software.

• Sound understanding of software vulnerabilities, threat modeling, secure design, and security validation techniques.

• Excellent analytical judgment, independent problem-solving ability, and collaboration and communication skills.

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (M.Sc. is an advantage).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) and database engine internals.

• Knowledge of database protection mechanisms: authorization, encryption, auditing, isolation, and data-access controls.

• Experience in vulnerability research, fuzzing, reverse engineering, binary analysis, or adversarial security testing.

• Knowledge of Linux security primitives, process isolation, privilege enforcement, memory protection, or kernel interfaces.

• Familiarity with cryptography, key management, secure protocols, cloud security, or enterprise security standards.

• Interest in securing AI-enabled systems, autonomous agents, and emerging data-access patterns.