Broadcom Principal Engineer - Network Security 

United States, California 

968541736

Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• You will master the IDS curation framework, a complex infrastructure collecting data on new trends in the threat landscape and evaluating against them our network detection capabilities

• You will be contributing on a day-to-day basis to our detection capabilities and take an active role in the threat detection team.

• You will write, review, improve Suricata signatures

• You will contribute to the creation of new tools and techniques, quickly prototyping new ideas to ensure their viability as well as bringing them to production

• You will achieve an in-depth understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the .

• You will work with a global team in different geographical locations and you will have a unique opportunity to mentor and grow junior engineers while also developing your leadership skills.

• You will be an integral part of our leadership team and a thought leader within Broadcom and the industry.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Lead and drive the architecture of our network detection pipeline.

• Constantly monitor the threat landscape and identify gaps in our detection capabilities that need to be prioritized.

• Ensure the delivery of high quality detections capable of detecting different variants of a given threat with minimal or no false positives.

• Explore out-of-the box ideas to the detection of specific threats, pushing the boundaries of the Suricata lua engine or expanding the Suricata codebase with new capabilities.

• Analyze large amounts of network data to identify interesting behaviors with the help of Elasticsearch/Kibana stacks.

• Review the activity of other members of the team and help to push for excellence.

Who you are:

• You are passionate about threat research and you are a methodical person comfortable in managing and analyzing large amounts of data.

• You are able to work independently and you are comfortable in working with a global team working in different timezones.

• You enjoy experimenting with new ideas, creating quick prototypes, and following academic papers to identify new approaches.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science and 12+ years of experience in threat detection. Or, PhD in Computer Science with a focus on computer security or machine learning welcome and 7+ years of experience

• Knowledge of IDPS concepts and experience at developing IDS signatures.

• Deep working knowledge in python.

• Familiarity with docker and k8s environments.

• Experience in the analysis of security data and in the usage of Elasticsearch/Kibana stacks.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $141,000 - $225,000

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.