Staff Engineer (Security)
Company: VMware
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: August 8, 2022
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Job Description:
**Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**As you join VMware,
you will help grow a company that makes meaningful and significant
technology solutions and is committed to being a "force for good"
in technology. Our mission is to become the trusted foundation for
accelerating innovation in an unpredictable world. VMware software
is essential for making the applications and devices your family
and friends use every day a reality. Which means your work is
essential for transforming everywhere.Working with the Network
Detection and Research Team, you will join a team of highly
experienced engineers and analysts developing the next generation
of network security detection capabilities for our VMware products.
The team has deep expertise in network security and sees its roots
in academic research. We love to follow recent advances and
discoveries in the academic community, and try them out thanks to
our ability to build upon vast amounts of malicious network
interactions.You will have the opportunity to work on a very
challenging and intriguing problem: attempting to identify
causality in the stream of events and attempt to reconstruct the
sequence of facts that led to a given security events. You will
work on a component called correlation pipeline, that enables
security operators to connect the dots between different security
alerts and understand attacks faster and better.**Success in the
Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months
you will work toward completing?**+ In the first month of
employment, you will be expected to get up to speed and understand
the architecture of the system you will be expected to extend and
improve, as well as getting acquainted with the build pipeline and
the coding standards.+ Within 90 days of employment, you will have
successfully implemented your first development tasks. This
includes extending the correlation pipeline to implement the
defined functionality, writing tests to ensure proper coverage of
the newly added code, and going through the gerrit-based code
review process.+ Within the first year of employment, you will have
done significant contributions to the correlation pipeline and will
be considered an owner of such part. You will have active
involvement in architectural decisions, and in planning development
of new features and capabilities.**The Work: What type of work will
you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be
performing on a regular basis?**+ Development: your main role will
consist in helping in the development of a correlation pipeline
capable of combining together security events that are likely to be
related, effectively allowing customers to "connect the dots"
between seemingly unrelated alerts. The development work will
involve using a docker-based build pipeline, architecting and
extending the python-based codebase, and producing overall a
stream-based service to be deployed on top of k8s clusters.+ Threat
analysis: a lot of your contributions to the project will have
experimental nature.+ You will need to identify interesting
correlation ideas (either through experience/ideas or by building
upon academic findings), implement them as prototypes, and then
study their behavior and results when running on real customer
data. You will need to have sufficient knowledge and understanding
of network security concepts to understand whether the result
"makes sense" and is useful to a security analyst, and drive this
continuous refinement work.**What is the leadership like for this
role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?**The team
is run as closely as possible to a real research team. The
structure of the team is flat, and everybody's opinions are always
valued equally. We always attempt to leave as much as space as
possible to personal growth and to support employees in learning
specialised topics (ML, network security tools, ...). The team
combines network analysts (actively developing detections) with
developers in charge of the maintenance of the detection processing
and developers maintaining the IDS engines: this allows a tight
loop in the definition of the requirements and improvements for the
pipeline. The team composition is truly international, and combines
Italians, Finnish, German, British, and UK nationals.**Where is
this role located?**Flexible: The role is considered flexible and
will be a mix of working from a local VMware office and remote
depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with
your future manager. You will be expected to live within a
reasonable non-daily commute of the office. What are the benefits
and perks of working at VMware?You and your loved ones will be
supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package.
Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits
package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.+ Employee Stock
Purchase Plan+ Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave
Plans for All Family Types+ Generous Time Off Programs+ 40 hours of
paid time to volunteer in your community+ Financial contributions
to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings,
course work, etc.)+ Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and
wellbeing classesThis job may require the candidate to travel
and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to
entry.**Category :** Engineering and Technology**Subcategory:**
Software Engineering**Experience:** Business Leadership**Full Time/
Part Time:** Full Time**Posted Date:** 2022-05-15Networking &
Security: IT departments are spending more on security than ever
before, but the damage caused by data breaches keeps getting worse.
To solve this problem, VMware's Networking and Security team is
challenging traditional thinking about IT security. We take a
software-based approach that brings customers new levels of
usability and effectiveness in today's fast-changing public and
private cloud environments. We're tackling one of IT's toughest
problems by helping customers manage networking and security
services through?a single pane of glass across diverse
environments. Our software solutions free IT environments from
physical constraints to help them achieve superior agility, tighter
security, and faster provisioning. Are you looking for the
opportunity to help revolutionize IT security? We invite you to
join our tightly knit team that's driven to quickly deliver
top-quality solutions to this pressing industry problem. You'll
boost your career by working on cutting-edge innovations in the
cloud, security, networking, SD-WAN, and container spaces.VMware
Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power
to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look
beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make
technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and
security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation
for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are
transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of
what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion,
integrity, customers, and community. Shape what's possible today at
http://careers.vmware.com.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits
Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to
the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and
to providing employees with a work environment free of
discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware
are based on business needs, job requirements and individual
qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief,
national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age,
physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual
orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil
union or domestic partnership status, past or present military
service, family medical history or genetic information, family or
parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or
regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not
tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these
characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware
will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have
protected disabilities consistent with local law.
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