Staff DevOps Engineer (Malware Research)

Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss.
Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.

• We invented the cyber ratings industry in 2011
• Over 3000 customers trust Bitsight
• Over 750 teammates are dispersed throughout Boston, Raleigh, New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and remote

Bitsight’s Threat Research and Operations team develops and deploys strategies to discover systems compromised by malware and potentially unwanted applications through in depth research and analysis of malware families and infrastructure. This operations role will build and manage novel tooling that supports Bitsight’s malware tracking efforts. You will own and drive the evolution of one of the world’s largest malware tracking systems.  We are looking for candidates who are passionate about cybersecurity and are able to design, build and maintain complex and distributed infrastructure that supports our collection strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable, high-volume malware tracking infrastructure

• Develop tools to automate provisioning of security research infrastructure

• Autonomously identify and develop implementation plans for infrastructure improvement opportunities

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams on the design of new production data feeds from threat research capabilities

• Increase infrastructure robustness through thoughtful design of data monitoring and alerting practices

• Provision, configure, and deploy cloud infrastructure resources to support threat research operations

• Document infrastructure capabilities and functionality to support troubleshooting and response to data-related escalations

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years in software and/or infrastructure development for data-intensive applications

• Designing network infrastructure to support high traffic applications

• Contributing clean, maintainable, and modular capabilities to a complex Python codebase

• Automating infrastructure provisioning using orchestration frameworks (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)

• Broad knowledge across networking concepts and protocols with a focus on DNS

• Remote administration of cloud service provider infrastructure (AWS and GCP)  

• Strong capacity for ownership and autonomy with an ability to independently drive incremental progress against long-term, complex objectives

• Fluent in English, spoken and written

Nice-to-have Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with malware infrastructure, threat hunting, and network security concepts

• Developing networking-intensive applications in Golang

• Implementing data observability and query frameworks using tools such as ELK/Grafrana

• Interfacing with domain registrars to manage domain registrations

• Managing cloud compute infrastructure costs

Belonging & Inclusion. Bitsight is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability.

Culture. We put our people first. Bitsight offers best in class benefits. We devote the same energy to nurturing our company's inclusive culture as we apply to serving our customers' needs. Working at Bitsight will give you the opportunity to fulfill your professional goals and expand your skills.

Open-minded. If you got to this point, we hope you’re feeling excited about the job description you just read.  Even if you don’t feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply.  We’re eager to meet people that believe in Bitsight’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.

Bitsight also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email [email protected]. This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Additional Information for United States of America Applicants:

Bitsight is committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Bitsight will not discharge, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant.

Massachusetts Applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with applicable law.

This position may be considered a promotional opportunity pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.