About SecurityScorecard SecurityScorecard (securityscorecard.com)is a SaaS that’s disrupting cloud security space, we are well funded and just raised a 12.5m series A from Sequoia Capital. We already have a top notch team in the middle of NYC in a hot new office :https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1560086277352559.1073741829.788118331216028&type=1&l=230c9e79ca What we do – is we are developing algorithms to benchmark companys security posture from the outside based on signals we observe, and to helppredict breaches happen. We are working on some very interesting problems with large data sets, machine learning, security, and visualization, and can pay very competitively plus equity. You will be part of a cutting edge R&D team – your geographic location doesn’t matter as long as you are a security ninja. Senior Security R&D Engineer We are looking for a R&D Engineer to join our Research and Development team, in any geographic location. This is not your typical job building enterprise software. We are not looking for people to build the next CRUD app. We are looking for someone who can think outside of the box and be creative. Ideally we are looking for developers with a security background. This position is for a R&D engineer to work alongside our Threat Intelligence team. This position will involve 50% research and 50% development. The engineer should have a strong desire to research computer security problems and develop prototypes. The engineer should be comfortable working with a variety of production technologies such as ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ. They should also have advanced linux command line skills and the ability to build complex solutions in the linux environment. REQUIRED SKILLS 3+ years Experience with developing Ruby on Rails apps from the ground up. 1 year Golang Experience Experience building and maintaining distributed systems Experience working with ElasticSearch Strong Linux command line skills Experience with system administration. Experience with queuing technology such as Sidekiq / RabbitMQ Experience with Redis Experience with writing crawlers, scrapers utilizing a variety of tools such as capybara, webkit, phatonmjs and mechanize. Nice to Haves Experience with security tools such as nmap, masscan, metasploit. Experience with writing tools to exploit vulnerabilities Experience with writing tools to scan for vulnerabilities Experience building threat intelligence datasets Experience with pentesting Experience with threat intelligence Experience with honeypots or DNS sinkholing Experience analyzing and dissecting security tools.