Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Product & Strategy
  • Introduce, own and constantly improve key metrics for antivirus products
  • Define and prioritize the product roadmap across all three teams
  • Drive product initiatives to achieve challenging key metrics
  • Collaborate with Product Management on VIP customer requirements and competitive analysis
  • Introduce more AI tools & instruments within malware detection lifecycle
• Technical Leadership & Architecture
  • Own the end-to-end malware detection pipeline: from file ingestion through cloud analysis to on-server verdict delivery and cleanup
  • Drive architectural decisions for distributed data processing (Airflow DAGs, async Python, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka)
  • Oversee migration and modernization initiatives (e.g., AI malware analysis, AI rules creation)
  • Design and implement performance optimizations for cloud processing throughput (10M+ brand new samples added daily)
  • Manage infrastructure capacity planning: compute nodes, Ceph storage clusters, database scaling
• People Management
  • Lead 3 teams across multiple time zones
  • Hire, mentor, and grow engineers and team leaders for 3 teams
  • Coordinate cross-team dependencies with Server Team, Web Protection Team, QA, Infrastructure, and Support
• Operational Excellence
  • Ensure signature release quality through automated testing pipelines
  • Monitor and improve detection rates, false positive rates, and cleanup success metrics
  • Respond to production incidents (certificate expiries, infrastructure failures, processing bottlenecks)
  • Manage vendor and partner technical integrations

Goals for the First 6 Months

1. Understand the full pipeline end-to-end: from file ingestion from clients' servers, pipelines processing in the cloud, verdict delivery, and on-server scanning/cleanup
2. Maintain momentum on active initiatives: e.g. Rust migration
3. Establish relationships with cross-functional stakeholders (Server Team, Web Protection Team, Product, Support, Infrastructure)
4. Identify and address the top 3 detection quality or infrastructure bottlenecks
5. Define the department key metrics and start tightening them to excellence

Requirements

Must have

• Past experience leading security products / labs with / researches
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a management role leading multiple teams
• Deep expertise in malware analysis and antivirus technologies: static/dynamic analysis, signature-based detection, heuristic engines, file classification Nice to have
• Strong background in distributed systems and data engineering: experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Luigi, or similar), message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and large-scale data processing
• Experience with infrastructure at scale: managing compute clusters, storage systems (Ceph, S3), databases (ClickHouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitLab CI, containerized deployments (Docker)
• Experience with monitoring and observability: Grafana, Sentry, log aggregation
• Experience in the web hosting security domain (cPanel, Plesk, shared hosting environments)
• Background in machine learning applied to malware detection (transformers, LLMs for code analysis)
• Experience with GCP (Secret Manager, Cloud Storage)
• Familiarity with PHP internals and PHP emulation for dynamic analysis
• Track record of building and scaling cloud antivirus / threat intelligence platforms
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams

Technical Stack

• Languages: Python (primary), Rust, PHP, SQL
• Orchestration: Apache Airflow, Celery, Redis
• Databases: ClickHouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Storage: Ceph, S3-compatible storage
• Infrastructure: Bare metal (Atman DC), Nebula, Docker, GCP
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab
• Monitoring: Grafana, Redash, Sentry

Benefits

• A focus on professional development.
• Interesting and challenging projects.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, that allows you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Budget for education.
• The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.