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Endpoint Engineer

Cylake · Sunnyvale · On-site

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About Cylake

Cylake is the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments. Backed by Greylock and Lightspeed.

About the role

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in systems-level programming and architecting highly concurrent applications
  • Strong Rust programming skills with a focus on high-performance, low-level OS integrations
  • Deep understanding of Windows OS internals, including ETW, IPC, Named Pipes, and Windows Services
  • Experience with cross-platform endpoint telemetry collection utilizing Linux eBPF and macOS ESF
  • Proven experience in dynamic binary instrumentation, user-mode API interception, and process injection
  • Experience designing and optimizing low-overhead threat detection heuristics directly on the endpoint
More about this role

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start.

You will serve as a technical leader responsible for building our core endpoint security agent from the ground up, providing comprehensive visibility and protection across Windows, Linux, and macOS. You will architect a lightweight, highly resilient agent capable of deep OS introspection, autonomous threat prevention, and sophisticated offline telemetry spooling. You will tackle complex challenges in user-mode hooking, kernel-level behavioral analysis, anti-tampering, and distributed systems design to deliver a seamless, high-performance security client.

5+ years of experience in systems-level programming and architecting highly concurrent applications

Strong Rust programming skills with a focus on high-performance, low-level OS integrations

Deep understanding of Windows OS internals, including ETW, IPC, Named Pipes, and...

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