- Job Type: Full-Time
- Function: Engineering Software
- Industry: Enterprise
- Post Date: 02/21/2026
- Website: cybereason.com
- Company Address: 200 Clarendon Street, Floor 21, Boston, MA 02116, US
About Cybereason
Cybereason is the champion for today’s cyber defenders providing future-ready attack protection that unifies security from the endpoint, to the enterprise, to everywhere the battle moves.Job Description
Cybereason is on a mission to reverse the adversary's advantage by empowering defenders with ingenuity and technology to end cyber-attacks.
We have the technology, and now we are looking to expand our talent! Join a market leader and a diverse team of passionate professionals who win as one, put customers first, and never give up on reversing the adversary’s advantage.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Hands-On Rust Engineering Team Lead to lead a team of talented engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture, design, and development. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and hands-on engineering in a fast-paced cybersecurity environment.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Technical Leadership (Hands-On)
We have the technology, and now we are looking to expand our talent! Join a market leader and a diverse team of passionate professionals who win as one, put customers first, and never give up on reversing the adversary’s advantage.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Hands-On Rust Engineering Team Lead to lead a team of talented engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture, design, and development. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and hands-on engineering in a fast-paced cybersecurity environment.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Technical Leadership (Hands-On)
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and selected front-end components for our platform
- Lead the implementation of high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines for large-scale security data
- Integrate AI-driven analytics capabilities and optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Architect and develop APIs and integrations with a wide range of IT and security tools
- Ensure robust security design, secure coding practices, and compliance with industry standards
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-stack production issues
Team Leadership & Management
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, including onboarding, coaching, and career development
- Drive technical excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and engineering best practices
- Own technical decision-making, architecture discussions, and trade-off analysis
- Collaborate closely with product, research, DevOps, and security teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Plan and execute sprint goals, manage technical debt, and ensure predictable delivery
Skills & Qualifications Required
Required Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- At least 4 years of experience as a Team Leader.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on experience with Rust
- Strong fundamentals in computer science, cybersecurity, and networking
- Proficiency in Rust; familiarity with Go, Java, and C++ is an advantage
- Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and microservices architectures
- Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with real-time data processing, analytics frameworks, and modern front-end technologies
- Expertise in data pipeline technologies, the ELK stack, and Apache Kafka
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog and Vector
- Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems serving millions of users
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SIEM platforms and machine learning applications in cybersecurity
- Familiarity with big data technologies, time-series databases, and data warehousing solutions
- Knowledge of GraphQL, infrastructure-as-code tools, and service mesh technologies
- Contributions to open-source projects or relevant technical publications
Technical Skills & Knowledge
- Data pipelines and ETL processes
- Distributed systems (Kafka, Flink/Spark, Redis)
- ELK stack for log ingestion, search, and analytics
- Cloud-native and serverless architectures
- API design, versioning, and governance
- Performance tuning and scalability for large-scale systems
- Security best practices (OAuth 2.0, encryption, data protection)
- DevOps, CI/CD, and SRE practices
More About Cybereason:
Our culture and how we operate reflects in our shared values. Our #Defenders are individuals with diverse skill sets and backgrounds who are driven to innovate and scale with our growing organization. We are a team that strives to learn from each other, solve challenging problems, and work collaboratively toward our goal of reversing the adversary advantage.
Core Values:
- Win As One: The power of an individual is less than the power of a team.
- Ever Evolving: Change keeps us at the forefront, so we encourage it.
- Daring: To achieve the impossible, we must dare to be different.
- Obsessed with Customers: We believe gaining our customers’ trust is the most important part of what we do.
- Never Give Up: We are tenacious and resilient, and we never stop.
- UbU: We believe people can only unlock their full potential when they work somewhere that accepts who they are.
If these values resonate with you and our vision excites you, join us today and help us end cyber attacks from the endpoint to everywhere! #Defenders
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Cybereason we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace (#uBu), so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.