Menlo Security - Senior Engineer II, Proxy
Requirements
• Strong Systems Programming Background: Solid hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems in Rust or Go, with a preference for languages that offer strong safety guarantees in critical applications. • Strong Systems Programming • Passion for the Craft: You care about building software the right way. Correctness, scalability, and maintainability matter to you beyond just getting a feature out the door. • Passion for the Craft: • Focus on Performance Optimization: Demonstrated ability to optimize for latency and throughput in networked applications, using profiling tools and efficient concurrency models to handle demanding workloads. • Focus on Performance Optimization • Security-Oriented Engineering Practices: Strong background in implementing secure systems, with a proactive approach to threat modeling, vulnerability mitigation, and ensuring data integrity in distributed environments. • Security-Oriented Engineering Practices • Expertise in Asynchronous Programming: You've built and operated async services that handle high concurrency in production. You understand backpressure, cancellation, and the failure modes that come with non-blocking I/O. • Expertise in Asynchronous Programming: • Problem-Solving for Legacy Rewrites: Experience uplifting legacy systems while they stay in production, moving traffic over safely and in stages, refactoring into more robust architectures, evaluating trade-offs in language choices while favoring those that align with long-term maintainability and security. • Problem-Solving for Legacy Rewrites • Commitment to Testing and Verification: History of employing comprehensive testing strategies, including fuzzing, property-based testing, and integration tests, to validate correctness under various failure scenarios. • Commitment to Testing and Verification • Collaborative Technical Leadership: Ability to articulate and defend architectural decisions in team settings, while sharing best practices for secure software development. • Collaborative Technical Leadership • Strategic Use of AI Tools: Proficiency in leveraging LLMs thoughtfully and selectively to boost productivity, while critically assessing outputs for correctness, maintainability, fit with the system's architecture, and alignment with broader engineering goals. • Strategic Use of AI Tools • Ownership: Be responsible for the full lifecycle of the services you build, working closely with existing team members who have deep context on the system. • Ownership • Communication: Work with your team, and across teams, to understand customer needs, refine requirements, implement, review, and deliver changes. • Communication • ● 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems • ● Working knowledge of HTTP and TLS • ● Experience in Rust or Go strongly preferred
Benefits
• At Menlo, we don't settle for the status quo — in our technology or our culture. How we think and act is just as important as what we build. Our culture is defined by five core mindsets: Proactive Leadership, Straight Talk, United Impact, Elevated Talent, and Customer-Compelled. We take ownership and drive outcomes without waiting to be told. We communicate directly and seek hard truths. We break down silos and win together. We hold a high bar for ourselves and the people around us. And we treat every customer interaction as mission-critical. If you're someone who sees it, owns it, solves it, and does it — you'll thrive here. • Proactive Leadership • Straight Talk • United Impact • Elevated Talent • Customer-Compelled
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