Alex Staff Agency

Head of Security Engineering – Malware Research

Alex Staff Agency

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Czechia

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AirflowCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaMongoDBPHPPythonRabbitMQRust

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end pipeline - from ingestion of 10M+ unique daily samples to real-time verdict delivery on global server fleets.
  • Define the roadmap for malware analysis, automated signature generation, and ML-driven classification.
  • Guide decisions on massive-scale data processing using Airflow, Kafka, ClickHouse, and modern Python/Rust stacks.
  • Drive the integration of LLMs and transformers for automated code analysis and malware rule creation.
  • Mentor and scale a multi-disciplinary department across three global teams, fostering a culture of operational excellence and rapid incident response.

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading security labs or product departments, successfully managing the bridge between pure research and production-ready security features.
  • 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a "manager of managers" or multi-team leadership role.
  • Deep credibility in static/dynamic analysis, heuristic engines, and the lifecycle of false-positive/negative remediation.
  • Professional experience with distributed data engineering (Airflow, message queues like Kafka/RabbitMQ) and high-volume storage/DB architectures (Ceph, ClickHouse, MongoDB).
  • Experience managing CI/CD for security products where release quality is critical to maintaining global infrastructure uptime.
  • Comfortable working in a 100% remote, geographically distributed environment.
  • Expertise in web infrastructure security (securing large-scale web server environments and multi-tenant platforms).
  • Experience applying Machine Learning (Transformers, LLMs) to code analysis and threat detection.
  • Deep knowledge of PHP internals or dynamic analysis via sandboxing/emulation.
  • Practical experience with GCP (Secret Manager, Cloud Storage) in a security context.
Benefits
  • Salary: Competitive compensation package based on seniority and expertise, discussed individually with successful candidates.
  • Work Mode: 100% Remote (Global).
  • Timezone: Primarily CET ±
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonRustMachine LearningStatic AnalysisDynamic AnalysisHeuristic EnginesCI/CDData EngineeringMalware AnalysisAutomated Signature Generation
Soft Skills
LeadershipMentoringOperational ExcellenceIncident ResponseCollaboration