Lead Linux Software Developer

Two Six Technologies is looking to add a Lead Linux Software Developer to our team. This role will be responsible for developing and deploying capabilities for our customers.  You will also be responsible for productizing PoC’s that are handed off from a team of reverse-engineers 

The ideal candidate should be comfortable with ambiguity and forging your own path; our small team setting will provide you the opportunity for outsized impact. While you will receive extensive training, mentorship, and coaching, you must be comfortable executing against goals independently since there’s no playbook for our innovative research work.

Job Responsibilities & Duties:

• Serve as the primary capability developer on a small, highly motivated team
• Apply knowledge of Linux/Unix based systems to help solve complex mission challenges
• Provide mentoring to more junior developers on capability development strategies, methodologies, and implementation 
• Assist with reverse engineering and debugging of relevant linux applications
• Triage and scope ad-hoc tasks from the customer

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years Unix kernel experience internals including mandatory/discretionary access controls, runtime linker/loader, object file formats, file systems, and process/thread APIs & data structures.
• Demonstrated experience in developing applications in C/C++, and Python
• Hosted Version Control familiarity (specifically Git and Gitlab) and ability to customize pipelines. Comfortable with performing testing and releases in an environment using CI/CD methodologies.
• Experience as a developer on an Agile development style team.  
• At least 2 years of experience with network sockets programming and expert packet-level understanding of IP, TCP, and other application level protocols.
• Experience with at least one modern automation framework (preferably Ansible)
• Knowledge of memory protection modules (ASLR/DEP, etc.)
• Experience tracing code execution in a debugger (WinDbg/gdb/IDAPro)

Nice to haves:

• Experience leading a team of junior/mid developers
• Experience with identifying and analyzing vulnerabilities in complex applications
• Ability to rapidly find bearings in unfamiliar code bases

Clearance Requirements:

• This position requires a TS/SCI with the ability to obtain poly