Software Engineer

Blue Hexagon is looking for a full stack systems software engineer to build and deploy cutting edge security applications at scale.

You are excited by the prospect of working in a high-energy environment at a premier VC-backed early stage startup. You have strong algorithms and data structures knowledge, and enjoy taking on and solving challenging technical problems. You do not hesitate to cut across layers of the software stack, be it to do root cause analysis or to implement an efficient solution to a hard problem. If a problem is best solved by writing a linux kernel module, that’s what you will do (with the glad assistance of your teammates). If a problem is best solved by writing a web cache in javascript, that’s what you will do (again, with the glad assistance of your teammates). You think of software engineering as an art, and take pride in the quality of your code from its inception to deployment to user feedback and iteration.

Blue Hexagon is a premier VC-backed early stage startup and offers competitive equity and pay packages as well as medical, dental, vision, 401k, flex hours, company outings, munchies and amazing teammates. Your teammates have worked at Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and Qualcomm and studied at schools like Stanford, Princeton, CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Purdue and Berkeley.

You must have the passion and ability to take complete ownership of tasks, become the subject matter expert in the team, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment at an early stage company.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize high-speed machine learning pipelines
  • Build and optimize big data analytics engines
  • Develop and use state-of-the-art multi-threading and multi-processing techniques for high performance and scalability
  • Expand and refactor the existing codebase, while adhering to best software engineering practices
  • Contribute to technical reports and user documentation, and disseminate other technical information

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in CS and >2 years of experience in building and maintaining systems software
  • Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent knowledge of C++, python
  • Excellent understanding of the development toolchain
  • Comfortable with debuggers such as gdb or lldb
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Knowledge of software development processes such as agile, scrum, continuous integration, etc.
  • Experience using git on a daily basis

Nice to Have

  • Working familiarity with x86 assembly code
  • Working familiarity with SIMD
  • Working knowledge of machine learning techniques