Halcyon

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