Senior Software Engineer (C++)

Trustwave helps businesses fight cybercrime, protect data and reduce security risk. With cloud and managed security services, integrated technologies and a team of security experts, ethical hackers and researchers, Trustwave enables businesses to transform the way they manage their information security and compliance programs.

Join the Trustwave Product Engineering Team and contribute to cutting-edge technology helping customers secure their enterprise databases. We are looking for goal-oriented, self-motivated individuals with a strong passion for delivering high quality products. Our large enterprise customers demand that our products meet their stringent quality standards. This position may be filled in New York City, Chicago, or Denver.

Work with a team that delivers commercial multi-platform database monitoring technology across the major commercial relational databases; analyzing SQL statements and reporting on vulnerabilities as well as auditing SQL DCL and DML statements; using XML data-driven engines; interfacing to an enterprise-wide control and reporting module. The product uses a shared code-base and multi-platform frameworks to run on Windows and the major *nix operating systems.

The team delivers a mix of maintenance, enhancements, and new database and operating system support. Agile development techniques are employed. Self-starting individuals requiring minimal supervision are the norm.

• Develop, maintain, and document C++ code on Windows and *nix using Visual Studio and g++
• Develop and maintain unit tests and higher-level integration tests for the software we deliver

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience with C++ and debugging tools
• Familiarity with Windows development and development on at least one of Linux, Solaris, HPUX, and AIX
• Strong understanding of how relational database management systems work
• Strong problem-solving skills: you should be able to take high-level descriptions of problems and implement clean technological solutions with minimal supervision
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Experience with one or more of Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and DB2
• Experience working with distributed systems
• Experience working with version control software, preferably SVN
• Experience working with *nix shell scripts and gmake is a plus
• Experience working with XML and XSLT is a plus
• Experience working with one or more of the ACE framework, boost library, or gsoap is a plus

Education

• We prefer college-educated applicants, but at minimum, high school diploma or equivalent is required for employment.