Senior Software Systems Engineer (NDR)

TL;DR

Senior Software Systems Engineer (NDR): Building and operating services to detect, analyze, and contain network threats within a managed SASE platform with an accent on IDS/IPS integration and behavioral detection. Focus on automating response workflows, improving signal quality, and ensuring the reliability of NDR services.

Location: Hybrid in Zürich, Switzerland

Company

hirify.global provides a managed SASE solution combining SD-WAN, Firewall, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA into a unified framework for secure connectivity.

What you will do

• Build and operate services for threat detection, analysis, and containment across global networks.
• Integrate and tune IDS/IPS technologies to improve security posture.
• Develop network anomaly and behavioral detection capabilities.
• Improve threat correlation and signal quality.
• Automate response and remediation workflows.
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and reliability of NDR services.

Requirements

• Higher education in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Practical experience with NDR tools and IDS/IPS such as Suricata, Zeek, or Snort.
• Experience with Linux or UNIX-based operating systems.
• Strong skills in scripting (Python, Bash, Perl) and compiled languages (Go, Rust, C++, C#).
• Proficiency in English

Nice to have

• Knowledge of network security concepts and operational practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with telemetry pipelines and security data analysis.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and agile workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• End-to-end ownership of the design, build, and operation lifecycle.
• Collaborative engineering culture across network and security domains.
• Opportunity to become a certified Mission Control Engineer.
• Potential for a 3-month deployment at the Network Operations Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.