Silverfort is a cyber-security startup that develops a revolutionary identity protection platform. Using patented technology, our product enables strong authentication across entire corporate networks and cloud environments, without any modifications to endpoints and servers. In addition, we use advanced behavior analytics to apply adaptive authentication policies and prevent cyber-attacks in real time.
Our mission is to provide industry-leading unified identity protection solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We develop cutting-edge cybersecurity technology that solves urgent customer needs today and is also a game-changer for years to come.
Silverfort’s team includes exceptional researchers, engineers, and technology experts who successfully tackle some of the most complex challenges in cyber-security. Silverfort has happy customers worldwide, strong market validation (including several industry awards), strategic partnerships with the largest security vendors in the world, and significant funding from leading VCs.
As an Innovation Engineer, you will join our innovation team. In this role, you will research and build exciting new technologies, tackling complex and unique challenges to help Silverfort expand into new areas and develop new products. This role is intended for all-doers, those with the imagination to see the big picture and the expertise to build it.
Responsibilities
- Learn emerging technologies and threats
- Build proofs of concept
- Research and invent new products and technologies - Be the startup inside the startup
- Work closely with the development and product teams - Help the product team with current and new ideas, participate in brainstorms, and research the ideas that have come up. Help the development team integrate and develop your ideas into the product, and help them tackle hard problems
- Handle unique ad-hoc problems coming from other areas of the company or from customers, with the end goal of turning their problems into new solutions
Requirements
- Passion! Love building stuff, work hard on the frontier, breathe cybersecurity, fail, and keep going
- At least 4+ years of experience in research and/or development
- Strong proficiency in Python, JS, Rust, or another programming language
- Have the ability to test your ideas and build proofs of concept
- Broad knowledge and instinct in information security, with a strong grasp of security practices, common vulnerabilities, and effective defenses across both on-prem and web solutions.
- Extensive expertise in web technologies with a deep understanding of web architecture, including SaaS concepts and the interactions between user, client, frontend, and backend within web applications.
- Experience in machine learning or AI technologies - an advantage
- Good communication skills, ability to explain and simplify complex ideas
- Feel comfortable with cloud services such as Azure/Okta/AWS/Cloudflare - a big advantage
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