Senior Software Engineer (Java)

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.

Trustwave is looking for a talented, highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product team in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in developing enterprise level 24x7 high performance multi-tier systems, with different footprints, for very-high-data rate environments.

The Senior Software Engineer will be working with multiple dynamic and creative software engineering teams. This person will take a leadership role in the design, implementation and support of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software in a Java/Linux environment.

Requiments:

A minimum undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent, and demonstrable experiences as listed below:

• 5+ years of experience with commercial software product development spanning multiple releases
• 3+ years of Java development for distributed enterprise, cloud or embedded applications - experience in C# and C++ will also be considered
• 2+ years of experience with RDBMS or NoSQL platforms
• 2+ years of experience with Open Source tools and systems such as JBoss, Tomcat, Spring, openSSL, C3P0, ActiveMQ, Apache Felix
• 3+ years of experience developing in a Linux environment
• 1+ years of experience with 'Big Data' environments

Additional preferred skills:

• Experience with very high rate data environments - billions of rows of data per day
• Expertise in the use of networking technologies, socket programming and cryptographic infrastructures
• Low level experience with MySQL, including query optimization
• Experience with MariaDB
• Experience with scripting technologies including Linux shell scripting, Ruby
• Experience with building Domain Specific Languages
• Experience with NoSQL and NewSQL technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, TokuDB, infoBright, VoltDB
• Familiarity with Search Tree algorithms
• Experience in tuning software for virtual platforms
• Familiarity with rules engines
• CISSP and/or CISA designations
• Understanding of IT security, IT security technologies and security products/devices (e.g. firewalls, IPS, IDS, OS log events, Syslogs, etc.)
• Deep familiarity with Linux performance tuning
• Leadership experience with small teams

Education:

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