Staff Software Engineer (Systems & Network Proxy)

About Cyberhaven

Joining Cyberhaven offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of revolutionizing data protection through cutting-edge AI technology. Cyberhaven is dedicated to overcoming the challenges faced by traditional data security products, ensuring robust protection of critical data against insider threats in a rapidly evolving work environment. With a unique approach to data lineage, tracing data from its origin for better classification and protection, Cyberhaven combines the functionality of traditional data protection security tools into a single, more effective solution. This role not only allows you to contribute to the advancement of cloud and data security but also places you within a team of security and product professionals passionate about transforming the way data is protected.

Position Overview

We’re looking for an experienced systems software engineer to help drive and evolve our product. This person would extend and own our on-endpoint network proxy solution, intercepting and manipulating the network traffic of third party software. Our technology is new and rapidly evolving, and you’ll have a chance to be an early contributor with a substantial impact on the product architecture.

What You'll do

• Hook or redirect outbound connections, terminate and re-establish TLS sessions, and apply content-aware policies in real time

• Add low-level collectors that trace data flows across apps, files, sockets, and pipes, feeding a unified event stream

• Solve challenging performance optimization problems: we’re building software that monitors hundreds of thousands of events with minimal impact on performance of the endpoint applications

• Design and build highly reliable code that never impacts the end-user experience

• Build secure-by-design hardened software that must withstand real-world attacks, while processing untrusted data and communicating with a backend over the internet

Who you are

• Strong track record in network interception and parsing

• Prior work on at least one forward proxy used by security software

• Experience debugging, profiling, and optimizing the performance of low-level system software

• Proficient in designing and implementing application architecture

• Experience with agile development and SCRUM

• Proven ability to collaborate with a distributed cross-functional team

• Possess verbal and written communication skills in English

• Availability to frequently communicate with a distributed engineering team in Central European and US Eastern time zones.

What you can count on

• Competitive start up salary and generous stock options

• 100% paid health benefits options

• Flexible time off

• Potential fast-tracked career advancement opportunities

• Experience building something from the ground up

Cyberhaven is the AI-powered data security company revolutionizing how companies detect and stop the most critical insider threats to their most important data. We've raised over $250M from leading Silicon Valley investors like Khosla and Redpoint. Cyberhaven is also backed by founders, executives, and security leaders who have built transformational technologies at Crowdstrike, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, Slack, and others.

Our company values are:

• Think Deeply and Use Sound Reasoning

• Step Up and Take Ownership

• Continuously Learn and Grow

• Obsess About Customers

• Enjoy the Journey

• Reach for Ambitious Goals

Cyberhaven is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.