Trail of Bits Careers

Join our Engineering Services TeamOur engineering services team works closely with commercial customers in tech, defense, and finance on quick-response feature development, security infrastructure deployment troubleshooting, security vulnerability triage and remediation, and bug fixes. We adopt and support the best of open-source security software for our work, and regularly contribute enhancements to these projects as a result.  We enjoy knowing that our work is making an impact and helping to secure organizations all over the world and that we are delivering improvements to software used by thousands. We regularly interact with the open-source community, collaborate with its many talented contributors, and share the opportunity to hear directly from real users.RoleThe primary responsibilities of this role are developing security-focused software and engaging with commercial clients / open-source communities. The focus areas are endpoint security, security agents, host telemetry, security engineering, vulnerability triage and remediation, build systems, logging pipelines, and associated security infrastructure.Software development will be primarily in C++. The role involves not just maintenance development, but also frequent creative and analytical challenges to design features and review existing implementations with a critical lens. This is an engineering position, where the focus is to integrate novel features into production systems. It does not involve direct operations like service monitoring and maintenance.You will typically work in teams of 2-4 people, all from remote locations, in roughly 4-8 week development cycles. Technical leads will assign responsibilities to you and other team members, and you will develop proofs of concept, prototypes, and enhancements to existing tools in support of a project's goals. You will have opportunities to work for a variety of clients throughout a typical year.Frequent communication with team members and clients is essential to success, and writing about your work publicly is encouraged and incentivized.This is a fully remote position (travel rarely required).The base salary range for this role is $125,000-$200,000 DOE.

Responsibilities

• Root-cause analysis and debugging on low-level technical issues.
• Contribute fixes and enhancements to large cross-platform codebases.
• Interpret customer requirements, decompose tasks, and make engineering estimates.
• Design and build solutions that balance performance, security, and functionality requirements.
• Directly speak daily with your team typically within core hours and coordinate asynchronously outside of core hours to organize tasking.
• Describe and explain technical concepts to clients, community, and co-workers.

Requirements & Skills

• 3+ years of experience in professional software development focused on desktop or server software (applications or kernel-level)
• Proficiency in system-level programming in C++ (required) and Python (optional), for either macOS or Windows. Experience with both languages is required.
• Experience applying modern C++ language features in your work
• Ability to work remotely and independently to set goals and find solutions.
• Related development experience in a security monitoring, security testing, security response, vulnerability research, cryptography engineering or other security role is a plus.
• Composure speaking or writing directly to customers to give status reports on progress and to solicit feedback and new requirements.

Company Perks

• Before, during and after COVID-19, our workforce works flexibly. Many employees choose to work from home around the globe. As long as you deliver against your goals, we encourage you to harness your personal working style to let you work best.
• Liberal expense policy for acquiring the equipment and software that help you do your job. If we need hardware to work effectively, we buy it. 
• We offer exceptional and tailored technical, leadership and organizational training for our team members. Everyone is encouraged to identify additional opportunities for personal professional growth with working at Trail of Bits.
• We routinely highlight the amazing work our employees do via our blog, product offerings, and conference talks. We celebrate you!
• We're at the forefront of a number of markets and have the internal expertise and the ambition to capitalize on those opportunities. Our employees see their work in use and valued by many others.

Benefits for US Employees

• Multiple generous health, vision, and dental insurance plans including no-monthly-premium options supporting individuals and families through JustWorks.
• Ancillary benefits including life and disability insurance, pre-tax commuter benefits, free Citi Bike membership, access to a HealthAdvocate, a healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a free One Medical membership.
• 4 months paid parental leave.
• 401k with 5% company matching through Betterment.
• Moving expenses: $5,000 one-time.
• Charitable donations matching up to $2,000.
• One time $1,000 at home office expense stipend.
• $500/year personal learning & development budget. 
• Executive coaching for managers and above.
• Options for coworking space (some restrictions may apply). 
• Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance.
• 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year.
• 14 company holidays per year.
• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren.
• Manage your student loans right alongside your 401(k) in Betterment.

Dedication to diversity, equity & inclusionTrail of Bits is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves! We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.

Trail of Bits helps secure the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. We help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.Our team consumes, produces, and presents research as a natural part of doing business. When we make new discoveries or developments, we strive to share our knowledge and release our tools as open-source. It’s a practice that’s earned us industry accolades and helped contribute to our double-digit bottom-line growth.Trail of Bits is seeking a Chief of Staff. The Chief of Staff is a key role on the leadership team. This individual will report to the CEO, interface with the executive team, support strategic initiatives, and drive accountability for goals across the company. The ideal candidate is a proven leader with a blend of strategic, operational, project management, and leadership skills. Additionally, they should possess exceptional attention to detail, initiative, and critical thinking skills. They are curious, adaptable, and comfortable managing change and ambiguity. They enjoy solving complex problems, are highly collaborative, and have a strong bias toward action and results. They exercise exceptional discretion with confidential information.Responsibilities for this role focus on: 1) Executive Team Leadership and Company Strategy, 2) Operations, and 3) Communications.

Responsibilities

• Assist the CEO in day-to-day operational management of the business and ensure the CEO’s priorities are effectively executed.
• Own prioritization and execution of key company strategic initiatives by partnering with the executive team and internal functions.
• Enhance the effectiveness of key meetings by setting effective agendas and driving high-quality content and output, including preparation and meeting follow-ups.
• Support the development of and drive scorecard success metrics and KPIs. Monitor key metrics and flag areas of concern.
• Own and continuously improve company operating cadence (e.g., executive team meetings, leadership offsites, quarterly OKRs reviews, quarterly board meetings).
• Seek areas for improvement and innovation to make the overall business run more smoothly and drive growth.
• Assist with communications between and from leadership to the broader team.
• Lead the preparation and development of all executive presentations, including but not limited to reviews, all-hands meetings, internal and external speaking engagements, offsites, and events.

Requirements

• 8+ years of management consulting experience
• Proven experience at a fast, high growth startup in a Chief of Staff or business operations leadership
• Experience building software or managing a software developer team
• Exposure to Cybersecurity-relevant work
• 5+ years of project and change management expertise
• Demonstrate analytical and logic skills with a focus problem solving frameworks
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent GSuite skills

Company Perks

• Before, during, and after COVID-19, our workforce works flexibly. Many employees choose to work from home around the globe. If you deliver against your goals, we encourage you to harness your personal working style to let you work best.
• Liberal expense policy for acquiring the equipment and software that help you do your job. If we need hardware to work effectively, we buy it. 
• We offer exceptional and tailored technical, leadership, and organizational training for our team members. Everyone is encouraged to identify additional opportunities for personal and professional growth with working at Trail of Bits.
• We routinely highlight our employees' fantastic work via our blog, product offerings, and conference talks. We celebrate you!
• We're at the forefront of several markets and have the internal expertise and the ambition to capitalize on those opportunities. Our employees see their work in use and valued by many others.

Benefits for US Employees

• Multiple generous health, vision, and dental insurance plans including no-monthly-premium options supporting individuals and families through JustWorks.
• Ancillary benefits including life and disability insurance, pre-tax commuter benefits, free Citi Bike membership, access to a HealthAdvocate, a healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a free One Medical membership.
• 4 months paid parental leave.
• 401k with 5% company matching through Betterment.
• Moving expenses: $5,000 one-time.
• Charitable donations matching up to $2,000.
• One time $1,000 at home office expense stipend.
• $500/year personal learning & development budget. 
• Executive coaching for managers and above.
• Options for coworking space (some restrictions may apply). 
• Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance.
• 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year.
• 14 company holidays per year.
• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren.
• Manage your student loans right alongside your 401(k) in Betterment.

Dedication to diversity, equity & inclusionTrail of Bits is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves! We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.

About Trail of BitsTrail of Bits helps secure the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. We help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.Our team consumes, produces, and presents research as a natural part of doing business. When we make new discoveries or developments, we strive to share our knowledge and release our tools as open source. It’s a practice that’s earned us industry accolades and helped contribute to our double-digit bottom-line growth.RoleThe primary responsibilities of this role are developing security-focused software and engaging with commercial clients / open-source communities. The focus areas are endpoint security, security agents, host telemetry, security engineering, vulnerability triage and remediation, build systems, logging pipelines, and associated security infrastructure.Software development will be primarily in C++, with frequent Python, and occasional opportunities to work in Go, Rust, or Swift. The role involves not just maintenance development, but also frequent creative and analytic challenges to design features and review existing implementations with a critical lens. This is an engineering position, where the focus is to integrate novel features into production systems. It does not involve direct operations like service monitoring and maintenance.You will typically work in teams of 2-4 people, all from remote locations, in roughly 4-8 week development cycles. Technical leads will assign responsibilities to you and other team members, and you will develop proofs of concept, prototypes, and enhancements to existing tools in support of a project's goals. You will have opportunities to work for a variety of clients throughout a typical year.Frequent communication with team members and clients is essential to success, and writing about your work publicly is encouraged and incentivized.This is a fully remote position (travel rarely required).The base salary range for this role is $125,000-$200,000 DOE.

Responsibilities

• Root-cause analysis and debugging on low-level technical issues.
• Contribute fixes and enhancements to large cross-platform codebases.
• Interpret customer requirements, decompose tasks, and make engineering estimates.
• Design and build solutions that balance performance, security, and functionality requirements.
• Directly speak daily with your team typically within core hours and coordinate asynchronously outside of core hours to organize tasking.
• Describe and explain technical concepts to clients, community, and co-workers.

Requirements & Skills

• 3+ years of experience in professional software development in one or more of the following domains: desktop/server applications (CLI or GUI), backend security infrastructure, Linux or Windows kernel-mode development, endpoint security agents/daemons.
• Experience applying modern C++ language features in your work.
• Can work remotely and independently to set goals and find solutions.
• Related development experience in a security monitoring, security testing, security response, vulnerability research, cryptography engineering or other security role is a plus.
• Composure speaking or writing directly to customers to give status reports on progress and to solicit feedback and new requirements.
• Previous experience in open-source projects is a plus.
• Proficiency in system-level programming in C++ (required), Python (preferred). Experience in Go, Rust, or Swift is a plus.

Company Perks

• Before, during and after COVID-19, our workforce works flexibly. Many employees choose to work from home around the globe. As long as you deliver against your goals, we encourage you to harness your personal working style to let you work best.
• Liberal expense policy for acquiring the equipment and software that help you do your job. If we need hardware to work effectively, we buy it. 
• We offer exceptional and tailored technical, leadership and organizational training for our team members. Everyone is encouraged to identify additional opportunities for personal professional growth with working at Trail of Bits.
• We routinely highlight the amazing work our employees do via our blog, product offerings, and conference talks. We celebrate you!
• We're at the forefront of a number of markets and have the internal expertise and the ambition to capitalize on those opportunities. Our employees see their work in use and valued by many others.

Benefits for US Employees

• Multiple generous health, vision, and dental insurance plans including no-monthly-premium options supporting individuals and families through JustWorks.
• Ancillary benefits including life and disability insurance, pre-tax commuter benefits, free Citi Bike membership, access to a HealthAdvocate, a healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a free One Medical membership.
• 4 months paid parental leave.
• 401k with 5% company matching through Betterment.
• Moving expenses: $5,000 one-time.
• Charitable donations matching up to $2,000.
• One time $1,000 at home office expense stipend.
• $500/year personal learning & development budget. 
• Executive coaching for managers and above.
• Options for coworking space (some restrictions may apply). 
• Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance.
• 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year.
• 14 company holidays per year.
• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren.
• Manage your student loans right alongside your 401(k) in Betterment.

Dedication to diversity, equity & inclusionTrail of Bits is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves! We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.About Trail of BitsTrail of Bits helps secure the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. We help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.Our team consumes, produces, and presents research as a natural part of doing business. When we make new discoveries or developments, we strive to share our knowledge and release our tools as open-source. It’s a practice that’s earned us industry accolades and helped contribute to our double-digit bottom-line growth.