Barkly is a well-funded, early-stage endpoint protection company delivering the strongest, most accurate protection with a simplicity that gives us the lowest management overhead in the industry. We’ve developed a new approach, called Responsive Machine Learning to drive protection that uniquely block exploits, fileless, and file-based attacks. You will be responsible for bringing to bear groundbreaking research in responsive machine learning and behavior-driven exploit protection to help revolutionize the industry and protect our customers. If you want to blaze trails for others and have the passion and desire to make a real difference in the world of cybersecurity, we want you to to be part of our team!

What you’ll do every day:

• Design, develop, test and deploy sophisticated software designed to detect malware at the lowest levels.
• Evaluate and help analyze complex malicious code using tools such as disassemblers, debuggers, hex editors, un-packers, virtual machines and network sniffers.
• Collaborate with other groups to develop a deep understanding of what our users’ goals are and translate that into flexible product designs.
• Share your security experience with other team members to help inform our product decisions
• Participate in daily stand-ups, requirements definition, and demo milestones to ensure strong alignment with other team members throughout our Agile development sprints.
• Help identify tools and process enhancements that will help the team continuously improve our effectiveness and productivity.
• Review other team members’ code carefully and with an eye for stability, consistency, quality, and maintainability.

This is your dream job if you have:

• 3-7+ years software development experience
• 3-7+ years experience with application security, network security, reverse engineering, or malware, i.e. knowledge of worms, viruses, Trojans, rootkits, botnets, etc.
• Expert Level Knowledge in at least one of the following:
• Windows or Linux Kernel, Device Drivers, and Windows Internals
• C/C++ and Assembly programming
• Intel/AMD CPU extensions (e.g. Virtualization, Root-of-Trust)
• Application, OS —> Hypervisor communication
• Experience with system level debugging and reverse engineering (e.g. WinDbg, IDA)
• Have passion for cybersecurity, identifying the roots of malicious attacks and protecting victims
• Are creative and curious about the best ways to block the most malware, while minimizing any instances of false positive results
• Are interested in the application of machine learning techniques and automation to create the strongest and most accurate protection available

Even Better:

• Extensive user space Windows API experience
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration infrastructure such as Atlassian Bamboo