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Halcyon is a purpose-built anti-ransomware platform dedicated exclusively to detecting and disrupting ransomware before damage occurs. It works alongside existing EDR and backup solutions to close the ransomware protection gap, providing a comprehensive resilience and recovery layer. Halcyon offers end-to-end protection across every stage of a ransomware attack, from pre-execution to data exfiltration and encryption. The platform emphasizes eliminating ransom payments, ensuring operational continuity, and preventing data extortion. It also provides managed 24/7 services, a ransomware warranty, and offers valuable insights through its Ransomware Research Center and Threat Actor Index.

Platform
Web
Task
ransomware protection

Features

data exfiltration prevention

complements existing edr/backup solutions

ransomware research & threat intelligence

ransomware warranty included

managed 24/7 anti-ransomware services

encryption detection & key capture

end-to-end attack chain protection

detect, disrupt, and defeat ransomware

Job Opportunities

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Halcyon

Senior Product Security Engineer

Halcyon is a purpose-built anti-ransomware platform designed to detect, disrupt, and defeat ransomware attacks, ensuring operational continuity.

engineeringremote
$190k - $250k
full-time

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents

  • 401k plan with a generous employer contribution

  • Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life, and AD&D insurance plans

  • Medical and dependent care FSA options

  • Flexible PTO policy

Experience Requirements:

  • 5+ years in product security or endpoint-focused consulting, with hands-on testing of Windows-based agents or EDR/AV products

  • Experience building fuzzers or integrating existing fuzzing frameworks for native code

  • Experience and capability in building automated test harnesses from the ground up

  • Experience reviewing and validating security findings

Other Requirements:

  • Strong Windows OS internals knowledge, especially user-mode hooking and Win32 API behaviors

  • Proficient in C/C++ and Python, with solid experience calling with Windows APIs

  • Comfortable researching and suggesting security features end-to-end and creating technical content

  • Rust development experience, particularly around FFI or unsafe code

  • Published tooling or research in vulnerability discovery, fuzzing, and/or automated test frameworks

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement security test harnesses from scratch to simulate real-world ransomware behavior

  • Develop and integrate fuzzers (libFuzzer, AFL/WinAFL, or custom tools) for automated crash and vulnerability discovery

  • Triage, reproduce, and analyze security findings against our agent and libraries

  • Perform root-cause analysis on crashes or logic flaws; build minimal PoC exploits or reproducer cases

  • Deep understanding of Windows internals (ring transitions, memory management, Win32 API) with focus on user-mode security hooks

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Backend Engineer, Data Platform & APIs

Halcyon is a purpose-built anti-ransomware platform designed to detect, disrupt, and defeat ransomware attacks, ensuring operational continuity.

engineeringremote
$120,000 - $170,000
full-time

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents

  • 401k plan with a generous employer contribution

  • Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans

  • Medical and dependent care FSA options

  • Flexible PTO policy

Experience Requirements:

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with recent experience in a jvm-based codebase

  • Exposure to C# or interest in learning it as part of a migration path

  • Strong understanding of APIs, messaging systems (Kafka), and modern data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, OpenSearch)

  • Experience building services in a cloud-native environment, preferably AWS

  • Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes

Other Requirements:

  • Comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment

  • Familiarity with functional programming patterns and idiomatic Scala

  • Experience with Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions

  • Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)

  • Prior work in security products, data pipelines, or high-availability systems

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to feature development across our data platform and public API services, including ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of security data

  • Collaborate with product and platform engineers to align on system design, architecture, and data flow

  • Develop, test, deploy, and monitor Scala-based backend services that are reliable, secure, and performant

  • Support our gradual migration of certain APIs from Scala to C#, ensuring consistency and continuity

  • Maintain high standards for code quality, documentation, and operational reliability

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Mid Level Backend Engineer

Halcyon is a purpose-built anti-ransomware platform designed to detect, disrupt, and defeat ransomware attacks, ensuring operational continuity.

engineeringonsiteAustin, US
$120,000 - $170,000
full-time

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents

  • 401k plan with a generous employer contribution

  • Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans

  • Medical and dependent care FSA options

  • Flexible PTO policy

Experience Requirements:

  • 4-7 years of backend engineering experience, with recent experience in a jvm-based codebase

  • Exposure to C# or interest in learning it as part of a migration path

  • Strong understanding of APIs, messaging systems (Kafka), and modern data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, OpenSearch)

  • Experience building services in a cloud-native environment, preferably AWS

  • Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes

Other Requirements:

  • Comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment

  • Familiarity with functional programming patterns and idiomatic Scala

  • Experience with Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions

  • Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)

  • Prior work in security products, data pipelines, or high-availability systems

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to feature development across our data platform and public API services, including ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of security data

  • Collaborate with product and platform engineers to align on system design, architecture, and data flow

  • Develop, test, deploy, and monitor Scala-based backend services that are reliable, secure, and performant

  • Support our gradual migration of certain APIs from Scala to C#, ensuring consistency and continuity

  • Maintain high standards for code quality, documentation, and operational reliability

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