Web Application Proxy Engineer

About Xage Security

Xage is the first and only zero trust real-world security company. Powered by the Xage Fabric, the company’s Identity & Access Management (IAM), remote access and dynamic data security solutions allow customers to secure, manage and transform operations. With its distributed, scalable and easy-to-operate Fabric, Xage solves the complex digitization challenges of the real-world operations we rely on. Xage customers include leaders in manufacturing, energy O&G, utilities, Space, logistics and transportation.

About the role

The Senior Application Proxy Engineer role gives the successful candidate the opportunity to champion the design of path-breaking information security products that address key gaps in security for the Internet of Things. Xage’s product is a unique application of blockchain technology, which leverages the decentralization properties to put adversaries in a position of disadvantage. The role is pivotal to delivering thought leadership, reliability of the product and robustness of its design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of projects and initiatives and ensure high quality of deliverables.
• Define, develop and maintain the deployment process and tools for Xage solutions spanning across both IT, OT and Cloud environments.
• Provide ongoing support and improve the system health and reliability.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and adopt best practices for highly scalable and distributed and autonomous systems.
• Lead, direct, guide and empower others to succeed.




Skills/Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software development using HTTP/s proxies, Websockets, packet tracing, multi-tier client/server communication.
• In-depth understanding and practical knowledge of Javascript execution in the security context of modern web browsers, authentication/authorization using JWT, SAML, SSO.
• Fundamental working knowledge on multi-threading programming, inter-process communication, socket programming, high performance and low latency programming.
• Knowledgeable in C++/go/Java-based secure coding, vulnerability assessment, threat analysis.
• Hands-on experience with application protocols RDP, VNC, HTTP, SSH and core concepts on Authentication, certificates, TLS, etc.
• Experience in cryptography, PKI, microservice architecture and large scale infrastructure, reverse proxies, NGINX, SOCKS5, Session Management with Load Balancers.
• Highly focused on quality, debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication skills and experience with agile software development methodology.
• Expert system level skills on Linux OS such as Ubuntu, Alpine, Red Hat Linux, Docker.
• Experience developing NGINX plugins or working with internals would be a plus.
• Experience developing applications using Guacamole framework would be a plus.