### **Company Overview**
Halcyon is a cutting-edge cybersecurity company founded in 2021 by industry veterans from top firms like Cylance, FireEye, and IBM X-Force. They have built the first dedicated anti-ransomware platform that integrates advanced prevention engines with AI models to combat ransomware threats. As a fully remote company, Halcyon offers a flexible work environment, bringing together talented individuals from across the globe to deliver security solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.

### **Role Overview: Rust Application Engineer**
The **Rust Application Engineer** will contribute to the development of Halcyon’s Windows and Linux agents, the core endpoint protection components within the anti-ransomware platform. These agents act as the primary communication and analysis engines, ensuring ransomware threats are detected and neutralized. The role involves developing multi-platform Rust applications that interface with APIs, manage inter-process communications, and handle complex data processing.

### **Job Duties and Responsibilities**
- **Rust Development:** Write high-quality, multi-platform Rust code that transforms messages, processes data, communicates over IPC channels, and interfaces with APIs and other components.
- **Debugging and Issue Resolution:** Diagnose and resolve issues using debuggers and log analysis.
- **Performance Optimization:** Optimize code performance using profiling tools to ensure efficiency and scalability.
- **Testing:** Write and maintain comprehensive tests for the code to ensure functionality and quality.
- **Collaboration:** Communicate with cross-functional development teams to ensure seamless integration of components within the overall product architecture.
- **Coding Standards:** Follow and contribute to coding style guidelines to maintain code quality and consistency across the team.

### **Requirements/Qualifications**

#### **Must-Haves:**
- **Proficiency in Rust:** Demonstrated ability to write high-quality code in Rust, with experience in threading, async programming, and using Rust packages like `tokio`.
- **Multi-Platform Experience:** Familiarity with Linux and/or Windows APIs for cross-platform development.
- **Problem Solving:** Strong skills in debugging and resolving software issues using tools like debuggers and software logs.
- **SQL Knowledge:** Experience working with SQL databases.
- **Code Optimization and Testing:** Expertise in code optimization using profiling tools and writing comprehensive tests for code reliability.

#### **Bonus Skills:**
- **Additional Programming Languages:** Knowledge of other languages, such as Python and C++, for greater flexibility in application development.
- **Rust/C++ Interoperability:** Familiarity with Rust/C++ interoperability tools like `bindgen`, `cpp!`, `autocxx/cxx`, and `cbindgen`.
- **Kernel Knowledge:** Experience with Linux or Windows Kernel development for deep-level system interaction.

### **What Success Looks Like**
Success in this role involves delivering reliable, high-performance Rust-based applications that ensure Halcyon’s agents function smoothly across both Windows and Linux platforms. The Rust Application Engineer will be responsible for writing well-tested, optimized code that seamlessly integrates with the larger product architecture. Effective collaboration with other development teams and adherence to coding standards will also be key contributors to success.

### **Salary and Benefits**
- **Base Salary Range:** $130,000 - $180,000 with a 10% bonus target.
- **Benefits:** Comprehensive healthcare coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, flexible PTO policy, parental leave, generous equity offering, and more.

This role offers a competitive compensation package and an opportunity to contribute to a groundbreaking cybersecurity product in a fully remote, collaborative environment.

Rust Application engineer

### **Company Overview**
Halcyon is a cybersecurity company founded in 2021 by industry veterans from leading organizations like Cylance, FireEye, Accuvant, and ISS X-Force. Halcyon is dedicated to pioneering the first-ever adaptive anti-ransomware platform that combines proprietary prevention engines and AI models to stop ransomware in its tracks. As a fully remote and distributed team, Halcyon fosters a collaborative and flexible work environment where top talent from around the globe contributes to building security solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.

### **Role Overview: Data Platform Engineer**
Halcyon is seeking an experienced **Data Platform Engineer** to join their team. This role focuses on developing and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and data platform that underpins Halcyon’s groundbreaking anti-ransomware solutions. Success in this role will involve driving innovation in cloud architecture, collaborating across engineering teams, and ensuring that the data platform provides a reliable foundation for other cloud-based applications.

### **Job Duties and Responsibilities**
- **Feature Development:** Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain new and existing features of the data platform that support cloud applications and other engineering teams.
- **Developer Experience:** Enhance the productivity of the development team by fostering a collaborative, efficient, and developer-friendly environment.
- **Collaboration with Product Teams:** Partner with product managers to align the data platform with the company's product vision and user needs, ensuring cross-platform consistency.
- **Cross-team Interface:** Collaborate with API and cloud application developers to ensure that their needs are met by the data platform, contributing to seamless integrations.
- **Team Building:** Engage in recruitment and onboarding to expand the Data Platform team.
- **Code Quality and Documentation:** Maintain high standards for code quality and comprehensive documentation.
- **Innovation:** Continuously explore new tools and techniques to optimize development processes and maintain system reliability.
- **System Reliability:** Monitor and ensure the sustainable reliability of the data platform by proactively identifying and responding to issues or system degradation.

### **Requirements and Qualifications**

#### **Must-Haves:**
- **Experience in Data Processing Platforms:** Proven experience building and maintaining data processing platforms using modern programming languages and libraries.
- **Database Expertise:** Demonstrated ability to interface with various databases and data stores.
- **Cloud Infrastructure:** Experience deploying infrastructure and applications in AWS.
- **Collaboration:** Proven ability to collaborate effectively with other engineering teams on integration and architectural design.
- **Kubernetes Experience:** Hands-on experience deploying applications on Kubernetes using Helm or similar tools.
- **System Reliability:** Experience designing for and ensuring system reliability in cloud platforms.

#### **Bonus Skills:**
- **Programming Languages:** Experience in Scala, Kotlin, Java, or Rust for building data processing applications.
- **DevOps Tools:** Familiarity with Terraform, GitLab, and ArgoCD.
- **Data Technologies:** Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Postgres, DynamoDB, and Kafka.

### **What Success Looks Like**
Success in this role will involve efficiently designing and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and data platform to meet the needs of Halcyon’s cloud applications. The engineer will ensure high system reliability, facilitate smooth collaboration across teams, and drive continuous innovation in the development processes. Success also means playing a key role in the expansion and improvement of the data platform team, ensuring both product growth and technical excellence across Halcyon’s solutions.

Data Platform Engineer

### **Company Overview**
Halcyon is a pioneering cybersecurity company founded in 2021 by experts from major firms like Cylance, FireEye, Accuvant, and ISS X-Force. Their mission is to deliver the first-ever adaptive anti-ransomware platform that leverages proprietary prevention engines and AI to stop ransomware attacks. As a remote-native, distributed team, Halcyon empowers talented individuals from around the world to contribute to its vision of protecting organizations from advanced cyber threats.

### **Role Overview: API Engineer**
The **API Engineer** will play a crucial role in the development of Halcyon’s cloud applications, specifically focusing on creating APIs that provide customers visibility into and control over their deployed endpoints. Success in this role involves designing and maintaining high-quality, scalable APIs that ensure seamless integration with UI components and other cloud services, while emphasizing performance, reliability, and security.

### **Job Duties and Responsibilities**
- **API Design and Development:** Develop enterprise-grade APIs using modern programming languages and web server frameworks.
- **Collaboration with Product Teams:** Work closely with product managers to align API designs with the overall product vision and ensure that APIs are user-centric, usable, and consistent.
- **Interface with UI and Data Teams:** Collaborate with UI and data platform developers to ensure that APIs are integrated seamlessly and provide an optimal user experience.
- **System Reliability:** Design APIs with long-term reliability in mind, proactively monitoring for potential issues and responding quickly and responsibly to any degradation or failures.
- **Innovation:** Continuously explore new methodologies, tools, and techniques to improve API development processes, usability, and performance.
- **API Security:** Secure APIs using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and related authorization flows to ensure that they are protected from vulnerabilities.
- **Testing and Automation:** Create and automate comprehensive test suites for APIs, focusing on functionality, performance, and security.
- **Infrastructure Deployment:** Deploy applications and infrastructure in AWS, leveraging Kubernetes and Helm for container orchestration.

### **Requirements/Qualifications**

#### **Must-Haves:**
- **API Development Expertise:** Extensive experience building enterprise-quality APIs using modern programming languages and frameworks.
- **API Design Knowledge:** Experience with API versioning and design principles that promote discoverability, such as HATEOAS.
- **API Documentation:** Familiarity with API documentation tooling, such as the Open API Specification.
- **Database and Data Store Experience:** Strong understanding of interfacing with various databases and data stores.
- **API Security:** Proficiency in securing APIs using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and related authorization flows.
- **Cloud Infrastructure Experience:** Experience deploying infrastructure and applications in AWS.
- **Collaboration:** Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate and architect solutions.
- **Kubernetes Experience:** Hands-on experience deploying applications on Kubernetes using Helm or similar tools.
- **API Testing:** Strong ability to design and automate comprehensive API test suites for functionality, performance, and security.

#### **Bonus Skills:**
- **Programming Languages:** Experience building APIs in Scala, Java, or Rust.
- **DevOps Tools:** Knowledge of Terraform, GitLab, and ArgoCD for infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
- **Data Technologies:** Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Postgres, DynamoDB, and Kafka.

### **What Success Looks Like**
Success in this role means delivering high-quality APIs that are secure, reliable, and seamlessly integrated with Halcyon’s cloud applications. The API Engineer will contribute to the overall success of the anti-ransomware platform by ensuring that customers have clear visibility and control over their deployed endpoints. Success also includes innovating API designs, optimizing processes, and collaborating effectively with UI and data platform teams to meet product goals.

### **Salary and Benefits**
- **Base Salary Range:** $150,000 - $190,000 with a 10% bonus target.
- **Benefits:** Comprehensive healthcare, 401k with employer contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, flexible PTO, parental leave, and equity offerings.

API Engineer

Halcyon

Halcyon: Revolutionizing Anti-Ransomware Protection

Ransomware has become the leading cyber threat, capable of crippling businesses within moments. It leads to significant financial losses, extended downtime, potential legal issues, and can permanently damage consumer trust and stock performance. Addressing this critical challenge, Halcyon emerges as the first specialized anti-ransomware platform that proactively reduces risks to near-zero.

Halcyon offers a multi-layered defense strategy, combining advanced prevention engines, key interception technologies, automated recovery processes, and robust third-party security integration. Developed by top offensive cybersecurity experts, the platform drastically minimizes the time and financial impact of ransomware attacks, enabling businesses to recover swiftly and efficiently. Halcyon ensures that your organization can confidently face the ever-evolving ransomware landscape, reducing downtime and enhancing your overall cybersecurity posture.

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