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Senior Reverse Engineer
Overview
As a Senior Reverse Engineer at Beeper ('all your chats in one app'), you’ll be at the forefront of connecting diverse messaging platforms.
Job Description
Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, Pocket Casts, and more. They are a distributed company with more than 1700 Automatticians in 92 countries.
Responsibilities
- - Lead reverse engineering efforts of proprietary messaging protocols to create and maintain chat bridges
- - Document protocol implementations and share findings with the broader team
- - Develop robust and maintainable bridge solutions that scale
- - Analyze and reverse-engineer messaging applications to understand their internal protocols and APIs
- - Design and implement bridges that maintain high reliability and performance
- - Debug complex issues across multiple platforms and protocols
- - Maintain existing bridges and adapt them to protocol changes
- - Document findings, methodologies, and implementation details
- - Collaborate with the team to improve bridge architecture and stability
- - Monitor and respond to protocol changes in supported platforms
- - Contribute to the open-source ecosystems for chat bridges, like Matrix
- - Participate in security reviews and implement security best practices
- - Share knowledge and mentor other engineers in reverse engineering techniques
Required Skills
- - Strong experience with reverse engineering mobile applications and network protocols
- - Deep understanding of network protocols and API design
- - Experience with Go
- - Solid understanding of cryptography and security principles
- - Proven track record of solving complex technical challenges
- - Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
Benefits
- - Fully-remote company
- - Open vacation policy
- - Contribution to the open-source ecosystem
- - Work with cutting-edge technology
About the company
We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.