Principal Software Engineer

About Index Engines

Index Engines is the world’s leading AI powered analytics engine to detect data corruption due to ransomware. The company’s CyberSense® product empowers organizations to detect ransomware and data corruption and facilitate rapid recovery from attacks. CyberSense is the last line of defense for thousands of organizations worldwide.

Role Overview

Index Engines has an outstanding career opportunity for senior level Software Engineers. The ideal candidate will develop, maintain, and support software for the Index Engines’ Linux application and will work closely with the Index Engines’ Support Organization to resolve customer issues.

Responsibilities

• Work as member of a Scrum team to design and develop software components that ensure system operates per requirements. Implement and unit test required software.


• Work with other Scrum team members to integrate and test software modules.


• Provide estimates for assigned tasks during release/sprint planning efforts.


• Work with QA to review test plans and support QA activities during test phases.


• Work with support to analyze and resolve customer impacting issues.


• Work with Product Management to review requirements for new/proposed features.


• Provide technical leadership within assigned areas of responsibility medium-large teams/features.

Requirements

• Software development in C for Linux.·
  Proficient with the development of data structures and algorithms that are both performance oriented and able to scale to manage large datasets.


• Agile Development methodology.


• Strong Intrapersonal and teamwork skills.


• Enjoys working in a challenging and highly collaborative environment.


• Able to work as part of a team.


• Able to accommodate the time zone differences required to work with teams in the US and Asia.


• Require minimal supervision and be able to operate in a matrixed organization.


• Desire to learn new technologies.


• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.


• Minimum of 7-10 years of professional experience in software engineering.

Preferred

• Experience with software development using Python.


• Experience with svn, git, Jira, Confluence and BitBucket.


• Experience within administration of Linux environments.


• Experience with backup software/technology.


• Experience with database management systems.


• Experience with VMFS/SCSI development.


• Knowledge of communication protocols.


• Familiarity with server hardware and networking.


• Master’s degree in computer science or related field

What We Value

• Agility and responsiveness to critical production issues.


• Meticulous attention to detail and a passion for user experience.


• Collaboration and clear communication under tight timelines.


• Humility and willingness to learn from incidents.

Why Join Us?

• Work on impactful interfaces for enterprise-grade cybersecurity tools.


• Join a supportive, cross-functional team focused on quality and reliability.


• Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities.