Software Engineer - Systems & Security

Qpoint is growing rapidly and reinventing network visibility for the encrypted era. Our platform gives engineers and security teams superpowers, providing kernel-level visibility into all encrypted traffic and eliminating the critical blind spots that proxies and sidecars can't touch. We're building the tools to see the unseeable.

Our customers entrust us with their most critical infrastructure and their most sensitive data. The stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of deep-systems security tools.

What's the job to be done?

• You will dive deep into the kernel, designing and building critical systems using Go, C, and eBPF to capture and analyze encrypted data flows without any performance impact.
• You will work on the bleeding edge of security visibility, reverse engineering proprietary protocols and binaries to automatically classify sensitive data (PII, secrets, API keys) in motion.
• You will build and maintain high-performance backend services that ingest, process, and index a massive, real-time stream of network and system-level data.
• You will collaborate with a team of expert engineers to solve complex distributed systems and low-level engineering challenges.
• You will work independently to solve engineering problems with little direction and high autonomy, owning features from the kernel probe to the customer-facing API.

These attributes best describe you…

• You are passionate about building high-quality, scalable, and ruthlessly efficient systems. You take pride in writing clean, maintainable code.
• You have an insatiable curiosity and a strong enthusiasm for taking things apart to see how they really work.
• You are comfortable working with large, complex codebases and can quickly understand and contribute to systems-level C.
• You thrive in a collaborative, high-trust environment and enjoy tackling deep technical problems with a team.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and can debug complex, intermittent issues across multiple systems, from user-space to the kernel.
• You are self-motivated and can work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions.

What you will need

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend systems, systems programming, security, or performance engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Go and C.
• Deep experience with Linux internals, systems programming, and networking.
• Demonstrable experience building, deploying, and maintaining eBPF programs in a production environment.
• Proven experience with, or a deep-seated passion for, reverse engineering binaries (ELF, DWARF) and network protocols.

What else will help you be successful

• Experience with performance analysis and debugging tools (perf, ftrace, Wireshark, etc.).
• Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the security, eBPF, or kernel space.
• Knowledge of compiler internals, debug formats (DWARF), or JIT compilation.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, particularly for data-intensive workloads.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Why Qpoint?

At Qpoint, we're solving a problem that was considered impossible: providing complete visibility into encrypted traffic without proxies, instrumentation, or code changes. As an engineer, you'll be at the core of building the platform that illuminates the darkest corners of modern infrastructure, from identifying third-party data risk to securing AI pipelines. We are a small, high-trust team of p99 individuals, and you will have a massive impact on our product, our culture, and the future of data-in-motion security.