Software Developer (Summer Internship)

Who Are We?  
We are a team that brought you Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner, dedicated to providing cybersecurity, privacy, and identity protection to over 500 million users in 150 countries. At Gen, we offer flexible working options, generous time off, and competitive benefits in a diverse and inclusive environment where every team member is valued and celebrated. If you are smart, fearless, and dedicated, join us to power Digital Freedom and help consumers take control of their digital lives. 

About the Role 

You’ll be part of our Threat Intelligence Systems team, building systems and tools, which will help us with the classification of threats and building better threat intelligence to understand the ever-changing threat landscape. You’ll actively cooperate with our team of malware analysts and researchers, developing new tools and systems for them. 

We are looking for an ambitious intern, who is willing to learn and is not afraid of the challenge. The work is going to be primarily focus on the Python-stack, but we can also offer interesting projects in lower-level languages (C/C++/Rust). 
 
Competencies:

• Experience with building Python applications

• Knowledge of at least one DBMS

• Debugging, profiling & testing of the code

• Git and collaboration with others on a project

• English communication skills (both written and verbal)

• Team player, ambitious, reliable, flexible, willing to learn new skills

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of YARA or other patter-matching languages

• Knowledge of RabbitMQ or similar message broking systems

• Familiar with DevOps – CI/CD pipelines, release processes, monitoring, ...

• Experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform or others)

• Capable of working with Linux operating system on power-user level

What We Can Offer:

• Opportunity to learn and work with the best in the Digital Security industry

• Learning & Development plan

• Mac/Windows/Linux laptop

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusivity. We base employment decisions on merit, experience, and business needs, without considering race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, or other unlawful factors. Gen prohibits discrimination based on these protected characteristics and recruits talented candidates from diverse backgrounds.

We consider individuals with arrest and conviction records and do not discriminate against employees for discussing their own pay or that of other employees or applicants. Learn more about pay transparency. 

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.