Principal Systems Software Developer - Cybersecurity

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

 Job Description: 

BlackBerry® – the iconic brand you know and trust – is now a market- leading cybersecurity software and services company.

Creating the gold standard for unified endpoint security (UES) , BlackBerry Cylance uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and automation to provide improved cyber threat prevention and remediation, while offering transparency across all endpoints for better management and control.

Among the first to market with full seventh- generation AI for cybersecurity, BlackBerry Cylance helps users understand risks and make intelligent decisions to mitigate them before they happen. Today BlackBerry secures 96% of the threat landscape, preventing more than 165 million cyberattacks in 2021 alone. Named by Cybersecurity Ventures as 1 of the top 150 companies to watch, we securely connect more than 500 million mobile, desktop and IoT endpoint devices for G7 governments, 9/10 global financial institutions as well as the largest global aerospace, defence, healthcare, automotive and media companies. Chances are, we are more a part of your life today than we ever were as a handset company.

BlackBerry is seeking a C# Developer to design, implement, test, and optimize with a high degree of autonomy and an emphasis on tangible results. You'll be joining our cloud engineering team and working on a massively scalable data-processing system that produces highly accurate results at exceptionally rapid rates. You'll also research new technologies to improve existing systems and design new ones, write a lot of highly scalable code, harvest data from different databases, API's, and other sources of information, as well as work with distributed systems.

In return for your talent and enthusiasm, we will provide you with an attractive compensation, commission & benefits package, an opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology, and the chance to thrive in a dynamic environment, working hand in hand with talented colleagues. In short, you bring the talent and we provide the environment, tools and resources for you to build your skillset and accelerate your growth & personal development.

What you will do

• Develop features and improvements to the product in a secure, well-tested manner.

• Provide expertise on reliability and performance challenges that you've conquered in the past.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner and other stakeholders within the company (Frontend and Backend) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have impact across your team and others.

• Have an allergic reaction to the words "defer" and "works on my machine."

• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.

• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems.

• Provide mentorships for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.

• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Who we are looking for.

• A very advanced level of experience in software development on a Unix-like system

• Significant professional experience with AWS, Cloud Development, C#, Python for application and infrastructure development

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.

• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

• Requires the ability to work independently with substantial latitude for action and decision while maintaining focus on achieving optimal outcomes as part of a collaborative development effort.

• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.

• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.

• Positive and solution-oriented mindset

Interested to learn more? We'd love to hear from you.

An Absolute Commitment to Equality

BlackBerry ensures an equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

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BlackBerry strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the selection process. Should you require accommodation, please contact [email protected] to discuss your needs.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40