
Job Title: Cybersecurity Agent Developer
Location: Bengaluru, India
Experience: 7+ Years
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Agent Developer with deep expertise in C/C++ and Golang or Rust to build and optimize high-performance security agents for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. This role requires a strong background in low-level system programming, performance tuning, and security-centric design to ensure effective monitoring, threat detection, and system protection across diverse environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain cross-platform endpoint security agents.
- Optimize agent performance to ensure minimal system overhead and real-time responsiveness.
- Implement system-level hooks and monitoring components including:
- Process monitoring
- File system and network activity tracking
- System telemetry collection
- Work with kernel-level APIs and frameworks, such as:
- ETW, WFP, WMI, MiniFilter (Windows)
- eBPF, auditd, fanotify, netfilter (Linux)
- EndpointSecurity framework, XPC, System Extensions (macOS)
- Build robust, secure inter-process communication (IPC) and data serialization mechanisms.
- Integrate agents with cloud-based security platforms via REST APIs, gRPC, and TLS.
- Collaborate with internal teams (threat intelligence, detection, response) to evolve agent capabilities.
- Perform in-depth debugging, profiling, and optimization using industry-standard tools.
Required Skills & Experience:
Core Programming:
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and either Golang or Rust
- Solid experience in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming
Platform Expertise:
- Proven experience developing for Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Deep knowledge of system-level programming, including:
- Windows: WinAPI, ETW, WFP, WMI, MiniFilter
- Linux: eBPF, auditd, fanotify, netfilter
- macOS: EndpointSecurity framework, XPC, System Extensions
Security & Networking:
- Understanding of secure IPC, TLS, gRPC, and secure coding practices
- Familiarity with system hardening and secure memory management
Debugging & Optimization Tools:
- Proficient in using tools like GDB, LLDB, Valgrind, Perf, Wireshark, Sysinternals Suite
Version Control:
- Strong experience with Git (GitHub, GitLab)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cybersecurity frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Sysmon, YARA, Suricata
- Hands-on exposure to kernel/driver development
- Familiarity with EDR/XDR, sandboxing, and SIEM integrations
- Understanding of malware analysis and threat detection techniques
- Exposure to container security and cloud-native security agent development

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• B. E. /B. Tech. in Computer Science or MCA from a reputed university.
• 3.5 plus years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side
programming.
• Hands on experience in core Java, multithreading, RMI, socket programing, JDBC, NIO, webservices
and design patterns.
• Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks, ESB etc.
• Experience in Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database.
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive is desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Experience as a participant in agile methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• This is not a fullstack requirement, we are looking for a purely backend expert.
Bachelor of Engineering with specialization on ECE or CSE or IT or Master of Computer Applications
MANDATORY SKILLS:-
C / C++ // Device driver Programming and data structures.
Linux Internals ( System calls, IPC, Network Programming, POSIX Multi-thread programming)
DESIRABLE SKILLS :-
C++ and OOPs knowledge
Linux system start-up sysvinit, systemd,
Bootloaders : uBoot
Message bus protocols like dbus
Basic Linux Device driver knowledge
Linux Build framework – Yocto-Bitbake, Makefiles
Python scripting
Debug using tools such as GDB
Version control - GIT and SVN and
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