Open Positions
To Apply
Please send your resume to jobs@shapesecurity.com
Benefits
  • Medical, Dental, Vision coverage
  • 401k plan
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Daily Lunches
  • Gym Memberships
  • Standing or Seated Desk

Software Engineer

Solve complex, challenging problems to develop a new category of web security products.

Responsibilities

  • Build a culture in which engineers organize and select their own projects
  • Transform computer science innovations into real-world engineering products
  • Develop powerful, effective and elegant software

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 1+ years with Java and C/C++
  • 2+ years with network-intensive HTTP applications
  • 2+ years with performance-critical multi-threaded applications

Preferred experience

  • Certification standards (Common Criteria, FIPS/NIST)
  • Common Internet protocols (HTTP, DNS)
  • Compiler or interpreter development
  • High-assurance software and platform security assessments
  • JNI development with C/C++
  • Scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, Jython)
  • Web development technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
  • MS or PhD a plus

Front-End Web Engineer

Create an elegant and intuitive user interface to visualize and manage our network appliances.

Responsibilities

  • Build a culture focused on minimalist and responsive interfaces
  • Create automated solutions for testing
  • Delight users

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of development experience
  • 3+ years of web application development experience
  • Strong grasp of:
    • Java and OOP
    • JavaScript libraries like jQuery (AngularJS)
    • SQL
    • Visual design
    • Web application development frameworks (JSP, ASP, PHP, Python-based)
    • Web development technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)

Preferred experience

  • Internationalization and localization (i18n and L10n)
  • Responsive, intuitive and scalable web application design
  • JavaScript-based data-visualization toolkits (d3.js, dc.js)
  • MS or PhD a plus

Quality Assurance Engineer

Design and implement world-class test suites to maintain, enhance and ensure the overall quality of our security products.

Responsibilities

  • Build a culture focused on consistency, robustness and scalability
  • Accelerate product iteration by implementing elegant test processes and infrastructure
  • Push the limits of our appliance’s reliability
  • Benchmark product performance to guide sales, marketing and future development

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years as test engineer for network-related products
  • Strong grasp of:
    • HTML, JavaScript, CSS
    • HTTP and SSL/TLS
    • Linux/UNIX or shell scripting
    • Networking and TCP/IP
    • Python or Perl and knowledge of regular expressions
    • Regression, integration, interoperability, system-level and load test execution
    • Virtual test environments
    • WAF, UTM, Secure Web Gateway
    • Web application testing

Preferred experience

  • Automation frameworks
  • Source-code control systems (GIT, SVN)
  • Network analysis tools (Wireshark, Fiddler)
  • MS or PhD a plus

Platform and Operations Engineer

Deploy our high-assurance network-based appliance in both bare-metal and virtualized environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build a culture focused on performance, scalability and high availability
  • Oversee and automate the provisioning and configuration of our systems architecture
  • Assist development teams with frequent application deployments
  • Document operational and emergency procedures
  • Participate in on-call rotation for production system support

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of Linux/Unix and operations experience
  • 5+ years of OS-hardening
  • 3+ years running production systems in a virtualized environment
  • Strong grasp of:
    • InfoSec, security monitoring, firewall, load balancing configuration
    • Monitoring tools, especially Nagios
    • Networking, especially AWS
    • Python programming, especially to access and manage AWS servers
    • TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, BGP

Preferred experience

  • Amazon EC2
  • Cassandra, Kafka, Storm, Hadoop, HBase
  • Certification standards (Common Criteria, FIPS/NIST)
  • High availability software methodology
  • NoSQL datastores
  • MySQL and Postgres
  • Nginx
  • Linux-based virtual appliance creation
  • Performance, resource profiling and system optimization
  • Platform security assessment
  • MS or PhD a plus

Senior Field Engineer

Build innovative infrastructure to support a next-generation web security product.

Responsibilities

  • Build a culture focused on anticipating the needs of sophisticated IT customers
  • Manage all technical aspects of web operations
  • Create innovative prototypes and proof-of-concept demonstrations
  • Diagnose network routing, load balancing and server resource utilization
  • Travel 30-50%

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years in a technical role (network engineering, information security, systems admin, software development)
  • 3+ years in large-scale IT operations
  • Strong technical presentation skills
  • Strong grasp of:
    • HTML, CSS, JavaScript
    • TCP/IP, HTTP
    • UNIX-like operating systems
    • Debugging

Preferred experience

  • Application implementation with a major IaaS provider
  • Previous customer-facing technical experience (professional services, support, pre-sales)
  • Large-scale virtual datacenter operations
  • Load balancers
  • Technical understanding of web attacks, threat research, threat assessments, incident response, mitigation strategies

Support Engineer

Support our next-generation web security product.

Responsibilities

  • Build a culture geared toward customer success and retention
  • Diagnose system issues using established methodologies
  • Talk to customers on the phone and improve established support documentation
  • Anticipate the needs of customers

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years in a technical role (network engineering, information security, system admin, software development)
  • Strong technical presentation skills
  • Strong grasp of:
    • Web technologies including HTML, CSS and TCP/IP
    • UNIX-like operating systems with network services such as DNS, DHCP, HTTPd
    • Debugging

Preferred experience

  • Web security

Director of Product Management

Launch and grow a next-generation web security product, working directly with our executive and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Creates a new category of safeguards for web users
  • Lead product strategy and execution
  • Work closely with engineering, operations, marketing and sales
  • Meet with customers and partners to prioritize and define product roadmap
  • Write thought-leadership, documentation and marketing materials
  • Conduct competitive technical analysis
  • Establish metrics and processes that define product success

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years total experience
  • 3+ years engineering
  • 3+ years product management
  • Strong technical presentation skills
  • Outstanding verbal and written communications skills

Preferred experience

  • Web security
  • Datacenter networking
  • Technical architecture of complex web, or mobile applications
  • MS or PhD a plus