Security Backend Engineer

Description Company is the pioneer of Active ASPM, securing the modern software supply chain. We cut through alert noise to surface the critical 5% of risks that are truly reachable and exploitable.

We're hiring a Backend Engineer for our Security Research group to build the systems thatpower our open-source intelligence work - ingesting public package ecosystems (NPM, PyPI),monitoring them continuously, and detecting malicious behavior at scale.This is a highly autonomous IC role where you’ll own projects end-to-end - transforming researcher prototypes into scalable production systems.

Responsibilities: Build scalable scraping and ingestion pipelines for public package registries (NPM, PyPI, etc.) Design and maintain distributed systems based on APIs, workers, queues, and databases Develop detection mechanisms for: malicious install hooks, embedded binaries, obfuscation techniques, suspicious package behavior Build and improve risk-scoring algorithms to prioritize real threats Work closely with security researchers to productionize detection capabilities Requirements Requirements: 5+ years of backend development experience with Python and/or Node.js / TypeScript Hands-on experience with large-scale scraping systems Strong knowledge of distributed architectures: queues, workers, PostgreSQL, Redis Production experience with Docker / docker-compose Strong ownership mindset and ability to work autonomously Full professional English proficiency Strong Advantage: Malware analysis or reverse engineering experience Familiarity with ELF / PE / Mach-O formats Background in security research or software supply-chain security Originally posted on Himalayas