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Head of Malware Research & Engineering (remote-only, Europe)

3 weeks ago
Spain, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania
Full-time
Lead
Engineering Manager
Software Development
Apache Airflow AWS Celery ClickHouse Docker GCP GitLab CI Grafana Jenkins Kafka Kubernetes LLM Luigi Machine Learning Microservices MongoDB PHP PostgreSQL Python RabbitMQ Redash Redis Rust SQL Transformers
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CloudLinux

CloudLinux

CloudLinux is a leading provider of the CloudLinux OS, a platform for Linux web hosting that offers next-level performance and security. With a focus on optimizing web hosting environments, CloudLinux helps service providers improve density, stability,...

IT Services
51-250
Founded 2009
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Description

  • Own and continuously improve key antivirus product metrics and drive the department roadmap across three teams.
  • Lead the end-to-end malware detection pipeline from file ingestion and cloud analysis to verdict delivery and cleanup.
  • Make architectural decisions for distributed data processing systems and related infrastructure.
  • Drive modernization initiatives such as AI-assisted malware analysis and AI-based rules creation.
  • Optimize cloud processing throughput for tens of millions of samples processed daily.
  • Plan and manage infrastructure capacity across compute, storage, and databases.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow engineers and team leaders across three geographically distributed teams.
  • Coordinate cross-team dependencies with Product, QA, Infrastructure, Support, and other engineering teams.
  • Ensure signature release quality through automated testing and release pipelines.
  • Monitor detection quality, false positives, cleanup success, and production incident response.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a management role leading multiple teams.
  • Past experience leading security products, security labs, or security research teams.
  • Deep expertise in malware analysis and antivirus technologies, including static and dynamic analysis, signature-based detection, heuristic engines, and file classification.
  • Experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing, preferably using Airflow, Luigi, Kafka, or similar tools.
  • Experience with infrastructure at scale, including compute clusters, storage systems such as Ceph or S3, and databases such as ClickHouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, GitLab CI, and containerized deployments with Docker.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Sentry, and log aggregation systems.
  • Experience in the web hosting security domain, such as cPanel, Plesk, or shared hosting environments.
  • Background in machine learning applied to malware detection, including transformers or LLMs for code analysis, is preferred.
  • Experience with GCP services, PHP internals, PHP emulation, or building and scaling cloud antivirus or threat intelligence platforms is preferred.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with flexible working hours and the ability to work from anywhere worldwide.
  • Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
  • Private medical insurance compensation.
  • Co-working and gym or sports reimbursement.
  • Budget for education and professional development.
  • Interesting and challenging projects.
  • Opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.

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