Careers at Dasient
Dasient is an exciting company with a stellar heritage and ambitious goals. Our team includes alumni of Google, HP, IBM, VMware, Cisco, McAfee, McKinsey, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and MIT.
We offer competitive compensation, attractive stock options, a great work environment, a comprehensive benefit plan, and the opportunity to positively influence millions of websites and users. Dasient's high-impact startup environment is also a great environment for learning.
If you are interested in working with us, please contact us with your resume.
We currently have job openings in the following areas:
Engineering
Product Marketing
As a malware analysis automation engineer, you will build large, scalable distributed systems that will identify and automatically quarantine web-based malware attacks across the Internet. You will focus on enhancing the malware detection portion of our systems. In addition to deep software development, you will help publish innovative security research via blog posts, research papers, and white papers. Interaction with the press/media may also be required.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and deploy systems for solving web security problems
- Working with a team of very high caliber engineers on a web-scale distributed system
Requirements:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (PhD a plus)
- Strong computer security background
- Great analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience in using malware analysis tools and sandboxes
- Experience in developing novel tools for automated malware analysis
- Experience in manually analyzing malware binaries and reverse engineering
- Experience developing/designing large, distributed software systems
- Experience in building secure web applications a plus
- Deep Windows internals experience a plus
- Database development and management experience a plus
- Experience developing/designing large software systems a plus
- Experience in PHP, Ruby, MySQL, C, and C++ a plus
- Zeal to work in an exciting technology startup
As a software engineer, you will build large, scalable distributed systems that will identify and automatically quarantine web-based malware attacks across the Internet. You will focus on distributed systems development.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and deploy high-performance, scalable systems
- Working with a team of very high caliber engineers on a web-scale distributed system
Requirements:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (PhD a plus)
- Great analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience developing/designing large software systems
- Experience with security technologies (malware, network and web app firewalls, etc.) a plus
- Database development and management experience a plus
- Experience with automatically replicating distributed storage technologies (think NoSQL) a plus
- Experience in PHP, Ruby, MySQL, C, and C++ a plus
- Experience working with ad networks and ad servers a plus
- Zeal to work in an exciting technology startup
Product and Product Marketing Manager
The Product Manager / Product Marketing Manager will play a critical role in the success of Dasient's products in the marketplace. This candidate will determine and drive a go-to-market strategy that will enable Dasient to have successful product launches and enter the market as a product leader. This role has ownership over the overall product definition, messaging, positioning, and vision of our products.
PM Responsibilities:
- Help define products and features after gathering requirements
- Work with a brilliant engineering team for iterative/milestone-driven development of products and features
PMM Responsibilities:
- Creating and owning strategic marketing platform, including target market definition, messaging, competitive positioning, packaging, and pricing for Dasient products
- Developing, planning, and executing marketing programs and campaigns aimed at raising awareness of Dasient's security products in the market. Programs will be customer-facing, partner-facing, and community-facing.
- Creating and distributing of product-centric content into the market utilizing a variety of content streams: video, writing, website, blogs, podcasts, social media etc.
- Developing sales support materials (company/product presentations, sales scripts, demos, "cheat sheets," etc.)
- Delivering product expertise, crafting real world solutions, writing local collateral to reach customers with a consistent and relevant message
- Develop the sales strategy for products and solutions. Analyze the sales cycle and channel mix for products and formulate ideas and approaches to optimize the selling process
- Support the closing of flagship deals through product presentations and demonstrations to customers (tradeshows, road shows, customer briefings)
- Recruit and manage beta customers when relevant and needed
- Develop relationships with a few flagship customers; turn these customers into references
- Develop and manage relationships with key analysts and members of the press
- Act as a product subject matter expert to internal and external stakeholders
Requirements:
- Self-starter with the preference for working in a fast paced and entrepreneurial environment
- Ability to write clearly and briefly, to explain technical concepts and translate technology features into business benefits
- Aptitude to quickly come up to speed on new technology concepts
- Passion to evangelize a disruptive new technology
- Proven analytical skills and strategic thinking
- Strong writing skills
- Previous product management / product marketing experience a plus
- Previous experience working closely with engineering teams to develop products
- BA/BS in Computer Science or similar technical degree and MBA or other advanced degree preferred
Dasient, the leader in Web anti-malware technology, envisions an Internet that is safe and malware-free for users and online businesses. Dasient protects the websites of leading financial services, e-commerce, media, web hosting and other global enterprises from losses of data, revenue and reputation caused by web-based malware attacks. Furthermore, Dasient's adaptive security intelligence re-defines Internet security by scanning the expanses of the Web and harnessing the power of data to mount defenses against future malware attacks.