Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at a key intersection of SaaS and endpoint computing: building a Linux sensor that can observe data movement and report back to a cloud backend. In modern SaaS security, visibility at the edge is increasingly central to preventing insider risk and enforcing data controls across distributed work. Cyberhaven’s emphasis on data lineage signals a product approach that relies on high-fidelity telemetry, making the endpoint component a foundational part of the overall SaaS system.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps to problems that recur across security and infrastructure companies: designing software that is continuously deployed, resilient to adversarial inputs, and operationally safe at scale. The focus on performance profiling, reliability, and hardened communications develops skills that transfer to other SaaS platforms handling high-volume event streams and demanding customer environments. It also provides exposure to the practical constraints of enterprise delivery, including multi-distribution support and long-lived deployments.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer low-level systems work with clear product impact, and who enjoy balancing deep technical trade-offs against user experience constraints. It will fit professionals comfortable collaborating across a distributed, cross-functional group and iterating within an agile cadence, while maintaining a high bar for correctness and security.
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Job Description
About the role
Joining Cyberhaven offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of revolutionizing data protection through cutting-edge AI technology. Cyberhaven is dedicated to overcoming the challenges faced by traditional data security products, ensuring robust protection of critical data against insider threats in a rapidly evolving work environment. With a unique approach to data lineage, tracing data from its origin for better classification and protection, Cyberhaven combines the functionality of traditional data protection security tools into a single, more effective solution. This role not only allows you to contribute to the advancement of cloud and data security but also places you within a team of security and product professionals passionate about transforming the way data is protected.
We’re looking for an experienced endpoint systems developer to help drive and evolve our product. Our technology is new and rapidly evolving, and you’ll have a chance to be an early contributor with a substantial impact on the product architecture.
What you'll do
Design and implement components of our state-of-the-art system sensor that traces all data movement across all applications and files on windows endpoints
Solve challenging performance optimization problems: we’re building software that monitors hundreds of thousands of events with minimal impact on performance of the endpoint applications
Design and build highly reliable code that never impacts the end-user experience
Build secure-by-design hardened software that must withstand real-world attacks, while processing untrusted data and communicating with a backend over the internet
Who you are
Strong track record in working on security software on Linux using eBPF, kernel modules and audit frameworks.
Experience with building and maintaining enterprise grade software with support for multiple distributions of Linux.
Prior work on at least one large native application deployed to tens of thousands of end-users
Experience debugging, profiling, and optimizing the performance of low-level system software
Experience building endpoint security products, such as DLP or EDR applications
Proficient in designing and implementing application architecture
Experience with agile development and SCRUM
Proven ability to collaborate with a distributed cross-functional team
Possess verbal and written communication skills in English
Joining Cyberhaven is a chance to revolutionize data security. Traditional tools fall short, but we’ve reimagined protection with AI-enabled data lineage that analyzes billions of workflows to understand data, detect risk, and stop threats. Backed by $250M from leading investors like Khosla and Redpoint, our team includes leaders who built industry-defining technologies at CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, and more. This role lets you shape the future of data security, alongside experts driven to help customers protect their most valuable information.
Cyberhaven is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
