Come join Click.
Click Security consists of the best and brightest in the security industry. Our all-star team is developing the next generation of real-time security analytics and automation that will revolutionize network security. We are passionate about creating a work environment that is both agile and laser-focused on results.
Open positions:
- R&D:
- Quality Assurance:
- Information Security Specialist
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Engine Developer
Click Security is seeking a Software Developer to help create the real-time security analytics engine for our overall network security Web application. You will work closely with the CTO and Chief Architect to create an event processing engine to analyze security data in real time at rates a thousand to a million times faster than state-of-the-art competitive systems.
We believe that one great developer is as productive as ten average ones and are therefore interested in top-notch candidates only. Our culture promotes collaboration and peer review at a fast pace. The ideal candidate will be polite, independent, driven and passionate. You must live in Austin, TX or be able to relocate.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design and develop a multi-core, real-time, ultra-high performance event processing system in C and Python for massive data sets
- Design and develop an IDE for authoring security modules
- Design and develop remote management systems for security appliances in the field
- Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability of data processing components
- Code primarily in Python and C
Skills & Qualifications
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred - M.S. a plus
- Expert level Python and C programming skills
- Candidate must be a highly productive self-starter with strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently and as a team player
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Experience with NoSQL engines a plus
- Experience with distributed message passing systems a plus
- Open source contributions are a plus
Data Visualization Engineer
Click Security is seeking a Data Visualization Engineer to drive the evolution of our browser-based data visualizations. You will work closely with other developers and user interface designers to create innovative solutions for visualizing and analyzing security data in real time.
The ideal candidate will be polite, independent, driven and passionate. You must live in Austin, TX or be able to relocate.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead the discovery, design, and implementation of techniques for visualizing large data sets in real time
- Contribute to the server-side web API layer that services the client-side visualizations
- Contribute to the development of our state-of-the-art, browser-based security client that connects to a real-time data engine
- Code primarily in JavaScript (jQuery and Protovis/D3) and Python
Skills & Qualifications
Baseline:
- Expert-level Javascript and jQuery skills
- Expert-level skills with data visualization, SVG, and/or related technologies
- Familiarity with Python and Java
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Highly productive
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently and in teams
Extras:
- A specialist in using JavaScript and SVG to visualize large datasets
- Masters' degree
- Relevant network security experience
- Open-source contributions
Security Research Engineer
Do you enjoy solving mysteries? Are you good at finding patterns that most people miss? Are you interested in solving some of the most difficult and dangerous problems facing the world today?
Primary Responsibilities
- Perform bleeding-edge, cross-disciplinary research into network security topics
- Research areas:
- Computational statistics
- Machine learning
- Scientific visualization
- High-dimensional data analysis
- "Big Data" mining techniques, such as those pioneered in the retail marketing industry
Skills & Qualifications
Baseline:
- Strong Python development skills
- Basic understanding of networking and security
- Proven ability to research new technology areas
- Ability to work well on a team, occasionally in high-pressure situations
- Degree in EE or CS. A master's degree is a bonus, though your experience, knowledge and attitude are more important than formal education credentials
Extras:
- C Expertise, especially the intersection between C and Python
- Intrusion Analysis experience
- Incident Handling experience
- Hands-on SIEM experience
- Visualization and analysis of high-dimensional data sets
- White-hat hacking experience
Click Labs currently employs world-class network security researchers with proven startup experience. You will be working with top talent from cutting-edge organizations such as TippingPoint, Sourcefire, the SANS Institute, Cisco Systems, BAE Systems and the US military. Whether you are at a junior level, a senior level, or somewhere in between, we'd like to talk to you. We have a number of positions open and the critical requirement is that you complement our team and have a hunger and desire to push yourself harder and farther than you've done before.
Web Application Developer
Click Security is seeking a Web Application Developer to help evolve our browser-based, real-time network security application. You will work closely with other developers and user interface designers to create and improve solutions for visualizing and analyzing security data.
Our culture promotes collaboration and peer review at a fast pace. The ideal candidate will be polite, organized, driven, and passionate. You must live in Austin, TX or be able to relocate.
Primary Responsibilities
- Help design and implement of a state-of-the-art, browser-based security client that connects to a real-time data engine.
- Apply usability enhancements and bug fixes to improve our product's quality.
- Code primarily in JavaScript (jQuery), Python, and occasionally Java.
Skills & Qualifications
Baseline:
- Proficiency in JavaScript, jQuery, and jQuery-UI.
- Familiarity with Python and Java
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Highly productive
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Eagerness to accept direction from senior engineers and interface designers while also contributing your own ideas.
Extras:
- Productized work, either personal or professional.
- Network security and/or data visualization experience
- Open-source contributions
Automation Software Engineer
Click Security is seeking an Automation Software Engineer to develop and automate test scenarios for our real-time security analytics product.
You will work closely with software engineers, architects, and field engineers to develop automated test scenarios, which simulate complex network environments, for in-house system and performance testing.
Primary Responsibilities
- Research and recreate sophisticated customer environments
- Develop, document, coordinate, execute, and automate the following kinds of tests:
- System-level
- Regression
- Performance
- Browser-based UI
Skills & Qualifications
Baseline:
- 2+ years of experience in software testing and QA
- Experience with:
- Automating browser-based UIs
- QA methodologies including system test, performance and test automation
- Fundamentals of Internet operation, network hardware, and network architecture
- Scripting languages (Python, Perl, Bash, etc)
- Simulating Internet traffic
- Linux
- Object-oriented programming languages(Java, C#, C++, Python, etc)
- VMWare or other virtualized testing environments
- Agile development
- Unit tests, software version control systems and other standard software engineering techniques
- An eye for detail
- Live in Austin, TX or be able to relocate
- B.S. Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Capable of working independently in a fast-paced, peer review environment
Extras:
- Network security experience
- Highly productive
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
Lead QA Engineer
Click Security is looking for a Lead QA Engineer to help ensure our product is of the highest possible quality. You will work with QA testers and software developers to design processes and set up tools & systems that achieve this goal.
Primary Responsibilities
- Ensure product quality at all phases on both the QA and Dev teams, including but not limited to a sound testing setup/strategy
- Define QA test requirements and review those of others
- Measure and identify test coverage and test coverage gaps
- Define test matrices in a system with complex interactions
- Liaise between QA and Development teams
- Serve as technical leader and subject matter expert for QA testers
Skills & Qualifications
Baseline:
- 10-15 years of experience with the QA of a networked product
- Experience defining and executing unit, system, performance scalability, functional, etc. tests
- Intermediate networking skills (for example, knowledge of the OSI model)
- Working knowledge of Linux
- Experience leading QA teams and involving them with Dev
- Experience implementing standard test methodologies
- Experience with industry-standard test tools
- Familiarity with Python
- Experience writing code and building tools in a test environment
- Familiarity with source code control and build management concepts
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Live in Austin, TX or able to relocate
Extras
- Deep network security background
- Proficiency with Python
- Experience implementing PyUnit
- Intermediate-level scripting skills
- Experience giving QA input to Development at the requirements phase
QA Software Engineer
Click Security is seeking multiple QA Software Engineers to execute and help develop test scenarios for our real-time security analytics product.
You will work closely with software engineers, architects, and field engineers to simulate complex network environments for in-house system and performance testing.
Primary Responsibilities
- Help define and develop system-level test scenarios
- Plan, document, execute, and automate software tests for system, regression, and performance testing
- Understand and recreate sophisticated customer environments
- Optimize system configuration and operations
- Define, develop, and execute test automation
Skills & Qualifications
Baseline:
- Experience with:
- QA methodologies, including system test, performance and test automation
- Fundamentals of Internet operation, network hardware, and network architecture
- Scripting languages (Python, Perl, Bash, etc)
- Simulating Internet traffic
- Linux
- Unit tests, software version control systems and other standard software engineering techniques
- An eye for details
- Live in Austin, TX or are able to relocate.
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Enjoy working independently in a fast-paced, peer-review environment
Extras:
- Experience with:
- VMWare or other virtualized testing environments
- Network security
- Agile development
- Automating browser-based UIs
- Building test automation tooling
- Object-oriented programming languages such as Java, C#, C++, or Python
- 2+ years of QA experience
- Highly productive
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
Information Security Specialist
Click Security is seeking an Information Security Specialist to help focus our efforts to build, maintain, and support a world-class network security analytics tool.
As an Information Security Specialist, you will use your extensive knowledge of network security to support Click Security’s customers in pre-sales (product evaluations/proofs of concept) and post-sales (professional services) roles. You will also help ensure that the Click Security platform is implemented correctly and continues to present value to customers.
Primary Responsibilities
- Ensure customer success:
- Deliver ROI by assessing customers’ needs, recommending appropriate solutions, and providing hands-on product support
- Promote product awareness and best practices by providing orientation, educational programs, and ongoing communication to users
- Analyze systems logs, alerts and alarms to identify events of interest
- Identify, prioritize, and minimize threats and vulnerabilities by analyzing customers’ security notifications and incident response activities
- Define system objectives and design specifications in collaboration with business analyst and/or project manager
- Enhance system efficiency by analyzing and revising system logic difficulties
- Expand our reach:
- Ensure successful customer engagements by advocating new ways of solving modern security threats and implementing the appropriate Click product functionality
- Create and manage an enterprise process that shows clear value to customers by identifying and filling system security gaps
- Represent Click Security in the cybersecurity community
- Guide our engineering team:
- Serve as a subject matter expert
- Lead technical collaboration inside the company
- Represent Click in new technology planning
- Recommend product improvements
- Lead the effort in mapping customer requirements to product features
- Collaborate with engineers to develop security applications and/or Click Modules
- Develop and optimize processes to improve the way we identify and remedy security threats
- Maintain understanding of industry best practices for threat analytics and incident response through educational opportunities, personal networks, professional publications, professional organizations, and so on
Skills & Qualifications
- World-class knowledge of information security tools:
- At least ten years of experience in the field of information security that included regularly exercising a solid working knowledge of information security principles, practices, standards and guidelines.
- At least five years of experience in large-scale enterprise security information and event management, incident response, and cyber security incident management.
- Extensive knowledge of Information security policies, system administration, network security, firewall administration, problem solving, process improvement, project management, network protocols, routers, and switches
- Experience with administering and analyzing a wide range of security platforms, such as firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, web gateways, UTM systems, web application firewalls, authentication / identity management tools, and endpoint security platforms
- Deep knowledge of a few specific platforms, such as Checkpoint / Cisco / Juniper / Palo Alto Networks firewalls, HP Tipping Point / Sourcefire / McAfee IPS, Bluecoat / McAfee / Websense web gateways, RADIUS, and Symantec / McAfee Anti-Virus
- Knowledge of common operating systems (Linux, Windows, etc.), networking, and common security applications.
- Hands-on experience with log management (Splunk, LogLogic, etc.) and SIEM solutions.
- Credentials:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field from an accredited college/university
- Current certification in MCSE, RHCSA, RHCE, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE-Security, GIAC, CISA, CISSP, or comparable area.
- Character:
- Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively as part of a team, and independently without assistance or strict supervision.
- Ability to periodically travel to multiple work sites regionally and nationally.
- Ability to work outside of normal business hours such as nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Strong communication skills to interact with customers, team members, support personnel, and provide technical guidance and expertise to customers and management.
- Ability to identify key components, dependencies, weaknesses etc. of complex systems
- Ability to efficiently and effectively analyze large volumes of data to identify events of interest.
- Practical knowledge of process control systems
- Strong scripting language skills (shell, Perl, Python, etc.)
Job Location: Multiple locations across North America. Preference given to applicants in Northeastern US (New York area), Southeastern US (Atlanta), or Western US (NorCal, SoCal).