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.