Engineering Manager

Quarkslab is a French company specializing in information security R&D, consulting and software development. Our expertise is in combining offensive and defensive security to help organizations adopt a new security posture: Force the attackers, not the defender, to adapt constantly. Through our consulting services as well as our software we provide tailored solutions to organizations, helping them to protect their assets, sensitive data, and users against increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Quarkslab is an avid and active user of, and contributor to, Open Source Software and develops and maintains state-of-the-art security tools such as LIEF , QBDI, Triton, Irma, and several other projects.

We develop two commercial software products: QFlow, a platform to automate and orchestrate security analysis of files at scale, and QShield, advanced code and data protection software to disrupt code lifting, reverse engineering and tampering attacks.

Job title: Engineering Manager
Department: QShield
Job type: Full-time employment
Location: Paris OR Remote

Job Description
The Engineering Manager manages a team of engineers and drives their work to deliver the product releases that are committed to the product management team on time and with the right quality. He has enough technical expertise to provide technical leadership to the team and drive their work. He sets up the processes, tools and means that engineers need to optimize their work and deliver the best code possible. He sets up and manages his team to meet their goals, contributes to products strategy and helps developing team members.

QShield (the product that your team is in charge of delivering) is a mix of several modules, based on various technologies:

• a Clang/LLVM-based compiler
• a set of C++ libraries, sometimes using custom compiler transformations
• contains cryptography protocols in many different places
• SaaS and monitoring technologies
• built and tested for many architectures & OS
• all supported by a full Gitlab based CI

In this context, you will be responsible for supporting and evolving these technological activities. The choices you make will directly impact the productivity of an highly-skilled engineering team, and have an influence on the overall Go-to-Market of the various products/features we would launch. You will also help find new talents, both for supporting the current team as well as delivering products that would require new skills.

You will also help the personal growth of your teams members, both for their soft & hard skills, making sure that they have all they need to accomplish their work properly.

Key Responsibilities
Technical management of the QShield project:

• Making sure that software deliverables are released on time, are feature complete and with the right quality (in accordance with planning defined and agreed with the PM)
• Deliverables:
• Verify that deliverables are feature complete (versus the roadmap), fully tested and documented
• Guarantee delivery to customers (Tech Lead acting)
• Quality:
• Ensure consistent quality accross all product components (code/tests/documentation)
• Define and own the product development, CI and test process
• Consistency/factorization: insuring the reusage of as much technologies as possible between products. Responsible for engineering consistency (e.g. coding styles) and review guidelines.
• Productivity: making sure all required tools and technical resources are available to the team
• Ensure that each module/technology is staffed properly (together with the technical lead)
• Define how to build new and existing modules

People Management of the engineering team:

• Facilitate collaborators’ work as much as possible
• Follow-up collaborators’ well being & career
• Determine the need for training and talent development and plan their actioning
• Handle the hiring processes
• Annual interviews
• Make sure that monthly/yearly review meetings are happening

What is QShield?
At Quarkslab we develop QShield, a software for application protection. Our solutions include a tool to protect Java/Kotlin programs and a C/C++ code-obfuscator based on LLVM, a white-box cryptography library, a RASP framework, a digital vault and remote attestation solutions. All these components help to increase the security of applications and firmware/middleware to protect IP, APIs, secrets and every sensitive information used or provided by software.

Why work at Quarkslab?
Work with an amazing team, eager to learn and play with new approaches and technologies, mixing various skills (security, compilation, program analysis, reverse engineering, software engineering). International environment with offices in Paris and Buenos Aires (team croissants vs. team asado), representations in Tokyo and Singapore.

• Attend conferences in your field, learn from many internal events (weekly conference, trainings, research activities).
• Contribute and support Open Source Software: Our own tools and other people's projects.
• Flexible work hours, work from home.
• Premium health insurance.

Recruitment process:

1. Call with our talent acquisition manager.
2. Video call with the Hiring Manager.
3. Interview with C-Level, QAS business unit and HR Manager at Quarkslab’s Office (or remote due to Covid).
4. HR debrief and job offer.

Quarkslab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital

Skills
Hard skills:

• Knowledgable in software protections, code obfuscation, cryptography & communication propocols design
• Experience in the IoT engineering ecosystem
• Programming languages: knowledgable in C, C++ & Python

Soft skills:

• Team organisation, leadership, effective communicator, mentoring
• Understanding of requirements, cost, roadmap and systems architecture
• Track record of succeful product delivery and growth

Nice to have:

• Knowledeable in git & CMake
• Knowledgable in various operating systems
• Experience with infrastructure management tooling (e.g. Ansible)
• Management of Gitlab CI pipelines