At Avast, we strive to give everyone the power to explore our shared digital world freely and safely. Our team is working to help shape the digital world to be a freer, fairer and safer place through the application of science, technology and human ingenuity, and we are looking for people who share our passion to contribute to a better online world. Avast promotes a rich diversity of cultures, debates, and out-of-the-box thinking. Today, Avast is a FTSE 100 company that safeguards more than 435 million people worldwide, protecting their digital data, identity, and privacy.
Job Posting Title:
Security Software Engineer - Identity
Job Description:
With 435m+ users, Avast is a world leader in online security with a deep mission to enable digital freedom for everyone globally. Building upon this business, a next frontier in the area of trusted data exchange and digital identity is a key new area of investment.
Identity is an issue for both consumers and businesses. Consumers have lost control of their digital identities and often trade security and privacy for convenience. Businesses, on the other hand, face increasing costs and regulatory risks linked to confirming identities of their customers and employees and managing their PII. Currently, however, there are many problems related to Identity (security problems, accessibility problems, convenience problems). If done right, however, solving these problems will have far-reaching benefits and will work as an enabler for many more businesses in their digital transformation.
Avast is building on its strength and reach in consumer security and privacy by launching an Identity business cutting across consumers and businesses. It will do this by disrupting how people identify themselves, across both digital and physical domains and in both their personal and professional lives, ultimately breaking the trade-off of user friction and level of assurance.
Join our innovative team in building this business with our product, engineering, and market experts – becoming a part of creating a better future for all of us.
Responsibilities:
- Develop products(s) that protect users privacy and identity
- Advise/educate other team members on security, promote and help to enforce best practices
- Audit internal solutions for security, Develop tools to monitor the security of internal products
- Work with other teams and team members to implement secure communication between components (on the device and outside the device)
- Work closely with the larger team that develops the identity protection solution
- Discover and evaluate already existing technologies that would allow us to improve security and user protection
- Suggest new solutions
- Contribute to architectural decisions
- Actively gather security-related feedback from internal and external users and based on that constantly improve the products and internal tools.
Requirements:
- Experience in security aspects of multiple platforms, operating systems, software, communications, and network protocols.
- Working understanding of Asymmetric & Symmetric Key Cryptography, Encryption, Hashing and Digital Signatures.
- Thorough understanding of cryptographic algorithms, digital certificates, and certificate authority infrastructures
- Understanding of cryptography keys: Key creation, key exchange, key use, key storage, key size requirements, and key recovery
- Knowledge of authentication protocols and applied cryptography and common attacks against modern cryptographic algorithms (encryption at rest, TLS, hashing, etc)
- Knowledge of PKI and PKI Best Practices
- Experience programming in one or more of the following: Kotlin, Java, C++, Swift, Rust, Go
- Significant experience in building secure applications
- Understanding of mobile & web application security threats, exploits, prevention.
We offer:
- An amazing and truly international work environment
- The chance to join a major global tech company
- Many opportunities for professional growth
- Quarterly bonus scheme
- Attractive pension & health insurance plan
- Unlimited Personal Time Off - because each of us needs enough time to relax
- Whole-life flexibility - we empower our people to choose where, when, and how they work and measure their contribution based on the achievements and outcomes rather than hours they work.
Sounds exciting? We look forward to hearing from you.
Avast does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or HR team, even in a situation when the relevant candidate is employed by Avast.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Deadline for applications: 27.10.2021.
