CloudLinux is hiring a Head of Malware Research & Engineering to lead the Cloud Antivirus Department within Imunify360. You will head three specialized teams that form the core of our malware detection, analysis, and cloud scanning infrastructure. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong people management and strategic product vision.

What You'll Do

Introduce, own, and constantly improve key metrics for antivirus products.
Define and prioritize the product roadmap across all three teams.
Drive product initiatives to achieve challenging key metrics.
Collaborate with Product Management on VIP customer requirements and competitive analysis.
Introduce more AI tools and instruments within the malware detection lifecycle.
Own the end-to-end malware detection pipeline from file ingestion through cloud analysis to on-server verdict delivery and cleanup.
Drive architectural decisions for distributed data processing.
Oversee migration and modernization initiatives like AI malware analysis and AI rules creation.
Design and implement performance optimizations for cloud processing throughput, handling 10M+ brand new samples added daily.
Manage infrastructure capacity planning for compute nodes, Ceph storage clusters, and database scaling.
Lead 3 teams across multiple time zones.
Hire, mentor, and grow engineers and team leaders.
Coordinate cross-team dependencies with the Server Team, Web Protection Team, QA, Infrastructure, and Support.
Ensure signature release quality through automated testing pipelines.
Monitor and improve detection rates, false positive rates, and cleanup success metrics.
Respond to production incidents such as certificate expiries, infrastructure failures, and processing bottlenecks.
Manage vendor and partner technical integrations.

What We're Looking For

Proven experience leading engineering teams in malware analysis and security product development.
Deep technical expertise in malware analysis and distributed systems architecture.
Strong people management skills with experience hiring, mentoring, and growing teams.
Experience owning a product roadmap and driving initiatives based on key metrics.
Expertise in managing high-volume, high-throughput data processing systems.
Experience with capacity planning and scaling infrastructure for large-scale data processing.
Ability to coordinate dependencies across multiple teams and functions.
Experience managing production incidents in a critical security environment.

Technical Stack

Airflow
Async Python
ClickHouse
MongoDB
Redis
Kafka
Ceph

Team & Environment

You will head the Cloud Antivirus Department, overseeing three specialized teams: the Malware Team, Cloud Antivirus Team, and Malware Processing Team.