The company guarantees a competitive salary up to $12,000 gross/month
About the company and the project:
A leading developer of Linux infrastructure and security solutions is looking for a Security Engineer / Staff Engineer to join its team. Our flagship product, Imunify360, is a comprehensive security suite that protects thousands of shared hosting environments, VPS, and dedicated servers worldwide. Our clients include industry giants such as Dell, GoDaddy, IBM, and Zoom, with over 4,500 customers globally. The company has more than 250 employees.
We are looking for an engineer-architect to build a new product from scratch. This is not a position within an existing team—you will single-handedly create a runtime protection layer for Node.js applications. The hosting market is rapidly adopting Node.js, and modern applications are increasingly generated by users with AI tools and little technical security expertise. Your mission is to make protection automatic, transparent to client code, and effective in real time.
This is a role with the highest level of ownership (Senior / Staff / Architect level), where you will make key architectural decisions and take full responsibility for the outcome.
Your tasks on the position:
- Define the technical approach for building runtime protection inside the Node.js process
- Design the detection logic to identify and block attacks during application execution
- Build and launch the first version of the product in real production environments
- Ensure the protection works without requiring changes to client code and without breaking legitimate applications
- Continuously improve the product based on telemetry, production feedback, and real-world incidents
- Achieve target values across four key metrics:
-False positives
-False negatives
-Customer escalation volume
Key requirements:
- The top priority is Security, not just Node.js. Security experience outweighs general backend tenure
- Experience in Security Engineering or Security Research (deep understanding of attack vectors and defense methods)
- Have independently built and shipped a product/solution from scratch (end-to-end ownership: from idea to production)
- Ability to take an ambiguous problem, define a solution, and deliver a working result without constant supervision
- Experience designing architecture and making key technical decisions (Staff/Architect level is a strong plus)
- English language: Intermediate or higher (written and spoken — all interviews are conducted in English)
Will be an advantage:
- Security experience specifically in the context of Node.js (vulnerability analysis, securing, researching Node.js applications)
- Experience with Linux in production and development environments
- Knowledge of Runtime Protection, WAF, instrumentation, malware analysis, and Incident Response
- Experience in managed hosting / VPS domains
- Experience with AI coding agents (Copilot, Cursor, etc.)
Benefits:
- Format: 100% remote work anywhere in the world (except for the listed exclusions)
- Legal setup: B2B only (contract with your sole proprietorship or company)
- Budget: Up to $12,000 gross/month (before taxes, under a B2B agreement)
- Company: A stable, established international product company with 15+ years in the market
- Role: A key position in building a new product line from the ground up