Security Backend Engineer

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Ukraine · Full-time · Mid-Senior

Company is the pioneer of Active ASPM, securing the modern software supply chain. We cut through alert noise to surface the critical 5% of risks that are truly reachable and exploitable.

We're hiring a Backend Engineer for our Security Research group to build the systems thatpower our open-source intelligence work - ingesting public package ecosystems (NPM, PyPI),monitoring them continuously, and detecting malicious behavior at scale.This is a highly autonomous IC role where you’ll own projects end-to-end - transforming researcher prototypes into scalable production systems.

Responsibilities:

Build scalable scraping and ingestion pipelines for public package registries (NPM, PyPI, etc.)
Design and maintain distributed systems based on APIs, workers, queues, and databases
Develop detection mechanisms for: malicious install hooks, embedded binaries, obfuscation techniques, suspicious package behavior
Build and improve risk-scoring algorithms to prioritize real threats
Work closely with security researchers to productionize detection capabilities

Requirements:

Requirements:

5+ years of backend development experience with Python and/or Node.js / TypeScript
Hands-on experience with large-scale scraping systems
Strong knowledge of distributed architectures: queues, workers, PostgreSQL, Redis
Production experience with Docker / docker-compose
Strong ownership mindset and ability to work autonomously
Full professional English proficiency

Strong Advantage:

Malware analysis or reverse engineering experience
Familiarity with ELF / PE / Mach-O formats
Background in security research or software supply-chain security

Key Skills

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docker npm reverse engineering postgresql prototypes embedded python

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