Job description
Are you passionate about technology and enjoy explaining complex solutions in a way that everybody gets excited? If so, read on!
About Picus
Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.
The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation.
The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 95% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.
About the Role
We are looking for passionate Software Engineers at all levels of seniority as part of our Engineering team that builds Picus’s innovative cybersecurity product that works in both cloud and on-prem environments. Picus is designed to identify gaps in security controls and offer mitigation options. Our engineers provide solutions for a wide range of technical challenges from attack simulation engine to windows, Linux and macOS endpoint peers as well as user dashboards. We need team members with great energy, willingness to learn and succeed and an open mind to create a top cybersecurity product in an agile environment.
As Picus Software Engineers, we’re committed to creating a sincere team environment that fosters trust, integrity, empathy, and growth. You’ll be able to be yourself, feel valued, supported, learn and grow.
Picus is headquartered in Ankara, with a regional office in Istanbul, but our team is remote across Türkiye. Please note that all CVs must be submitted in English.
What You’ll Do
- Be a part of engineering team with great product development, delivery, growth and teamwork culture. Be ready to improve yourself and others around you.
- Grow yourself with frequent system-design, refactoring and clean code practices. Work with top-notch engineering team, well-thought architecture and contribute to it.
- Actively contribute to code, system-design, features, even roadmap. Share best practices, your opinions, contribute to the product and create impact.
- Work with a top-notch UX and PM team. Contribute to the impact and usability of the product through well-thought features. Build the part of the product that deals with scalability, extendability and performance aspects.
- Work with well-established agile methodologies. Enjoy being a part of an actual self-organizing team using scrum as it is meant to be used. Refine, plan and make retrospectives of the sprints and this time, actually utilize them in the sprint (instead of just filling documents or just attending a meeting).
- Be ready for taking responsibility, keeping yourself up-to-date, contributing to the engineering best practices and culture in Picus.
- Learn and teach best practices of the frameworks and technologies we use including but not limited to C#, Go, event-driven communication, REST, New relic, Sonarqube.
- Be willing to discuss together, build together, deliver together, sometimes fail together, celebrate together and most importantly grow together.
What You Have
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar field
- The position would ideally suit a new graduate or someone with 1-4 years of experience.
- Solid foundation in Software Design, Data Structures, and Algorithms
- Experience in software development in at least one programming language (C# is preferred)
- Knowledge on operating systems and network technologies
- Knowledge of RDBMS (PostgreSQL is preferred) and NoSQL database management systems
- Knowledge on Test Driven Development and Unit Testing
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills
- Strong analytical skills and excellent problem-solving abilities
- Humble, friendly, adaptive, result-oriented personality
- Preferred hands-on experience with desktop application development using C# and .NET (WinForms, WPF or WinUI)
- Preferred strong understanding of Windows OS internals such as services, registry, processes, and permissions
- Experience with inter-process communication, background services, or Windows security features is a plus.
- Preferred knowledge in Cyber Security domain
Working at Picus
Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cyber security segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.
Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you’ll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.
Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.
Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy.
