Calix provides the cloud, software platforms, systems and services required for communications service providers to simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers and grow their value.
Calix is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager with a strong background in building cybersecurity products to lead and grow our threat intelligence team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on understanding and monitoring the ever-changing contemporary landscape of cyber threats and developing and evolving our solutions to protect, inform, and educate the people and businesses within the communities we serve.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, grow, and manage a team of software engineers and threat researchers focused on threat intelligence and evolving the threat detection and prevention capabilities of our platform.
- Be a combination of a highly technical hands-on leader and an effective people manager.
- Proactively monitor current and emerging cyber threats to learn, assess risk, and propose detection, prevention, and remediation actions.
- Identify, propose, and build tools and automation that drives development efficiency and quality.
- Research, prototype, and develop advanced cybersecurity features aimed at protecting millions of homes and businesses.
- Communicate and collaborate across functions and drive engineering initiatives to meet organizational objectives, establishing a world-class network threat intelligence and prevention team.
- Work effectively with partners and third-party data and services to drive quality and delivery efficiencies.
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience as hands-on technical leader of high-performing teams building cybersecurity products.
- 5+ years developing software in C for high-performance real-time networking products.
- Deep understanding and practical experience with linux networking fundamentals.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Proficiency in network traffic processing, deep packet inspection, regex, and platform software development.
- Experience with cloud-managed secure internet gateway products.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Desired Skills:
- Deep experience with IDS/IPS, anti-virus, and web content filtering technology.
- Deep understanding and experience with CVEs, IOCs, snort and yara rules.
- Up to date knowledge of current challenges and emerging approaches that utilize AI/ML for threat detection and prevention.
- Expert level understanding and experience working with L2-L7 protocol details.
- Highly organized and exceptional oral and written communication ability.
About Calix: Calix is committed to simplifying, exciting, and growing our customers' businesses. We believe in fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Join us and be part of a high-performing global team that is shaping the future of cybersecurity.
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What We Do
Innovative communications service providers rely on Calix platforms to help them master and monetize the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud. Calix is the leading global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems, and services required to deliver the unified access network and smart premises of tomorrow. Our platforms and services help our customers build next generation networks by embracing a DevOps operating model, optimize the subscriber experience by leveraging big data analytics, and turn the complexity of the smart home and business into new revenue streams.
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