San Francisco. H1B transfers welcome. Software Engineer for our Crawlers/ Spiders team at LOOKOUT.
Assembling the world’s largest and most comprehensive data set about mobile applications starts with discovery and acquisition of those apps.  As part of the Acquisition team you will contribute to the infrastructure that feeds the mobile threat network.  You will build highly scalable crawlers that scour the web for mobile apps, and highly scalable services that accept data directly from mobile endpoints themselves.  You will own a key part of the platform that feeds Lookout’s Mobile Threat Network.
Desired qualities:
You think at scale, and with high availability.
You’re excited about building out world-class crawler infrastructure.
You love to pull apart sites and protocols, figure out what makes them tick, and write libraries to emulate their protocols.
You are a strong software engineer, thinking in frameworks and clean interfaces.
You enjoy coming up with creative solutions to solve challenging and intricate problems that may well live inside of a black box.
Toys
Ruby, Resque, Wireshark
Apply here: <a href="https://www.lookout.com/about/careers/detail?jvi=oIbNWfwm" >
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