Careers

A Career at BreakingPoint

A career at BreakingPoint means the opportunity to help reinvent the network, application and security testing industry. Although our work environment is relaxed, our attitude and vision are bold, progressive, and determined. Moreover, because we are a high growth company, there is ample opportunity for career growth and advancement. If you value original thinking and radical approaches to problem solving and technological innovation, BreakingPoint may be the place for you.

Current Open Positions Include:

Technical/Engineer Positions

• Application Protocol Engineer
• Graphic Designer / Flash Developer
• Flex UI Developer
• Software Engineer [Management Layer]
• Security Research Engineer

Sales and Marketing

• Federal Sales Manager
• Sales Systems Engineer, BreakingPoint Government Solutions Group

Service and Support Positions

• Technical Customer Service Training Specialist

Technical Customer Service Training Specialist

BreakingPoint, a manufacturer of comprehensive application, performance and security testing tools, is looking for a Technical Customer Service Training Specialist. In this role, you will be accountable for the design, development, assessment, and delivery of comprehensive technical training programs for the complete line of BreakingPoint’s products. Training will involve both live and interactive canned demonstrations of product installation, test implementation, execution and troubleshooting. This position reports directly to the COO.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and develop classroom, online, and self-paced learning modules along with related classroom collateral material to support entry and advanced level training
• Research, design and develop technical and user manuals to support training. Candidates will work with engineering, technical support, and other applicable departments to ensure that material is accurate and reflects current product features
• Review and analyze course evaluations to determine effectiveness of training sessions and implement revisions to course materials as necessary to improve training efficiency
• Operate independently, managing course schedule and business travel arrangements
• Ensure the success of the participants through excellent program design, classroom delivery techniques, and knowledge of content
• Keep informed of and maintain proficiency with company products
• Ability to travel up to 35%
• Ability to lift items weighing up to 50 lbs

Job Specifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Seven or more years of technical training experience
• Experience working with sever applications and network products
• Experience delivering both on-site and on-line presentations
• Proficient user of MS PowerPoint, MS Word, and MS Excel
• Experience developing interactive software content for training purposes
• Ability to define assessment tools along with content development
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong comprehension skills for understanding products and applying knowledge to presentation
• Detail-oriented and have excellent critical thinking skills
• Ability to interface comfortably with all levels of management
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills are essential
• Experience creating learning content from information gleaned from subject matter experts and user documentation
• Ability to set up technical equipment for student demonstrations or labs

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.

Application Protocol Engineer

BreakingPoint Systems, a manufacturer of comprehensive application, performance and security testing tools, is looking for a Software Engineer to analyze existing application protocols, reverse the protocol and implement the protocol into our engine.

This position is highly visible within the company, where you will have a direct impact on sales. This person will read RFC’s or other specifications on well known protocols and incorporate them into our acceleration engine utilizing Ruby and XML. For protocols that are either proprietary or undocumented, this person will setup an infrastructure to capture the traffic in order to understand the protocol, reverse engineer it, and incorporate it into the product. This position will also have exposure to network security experts and have the opportunity to learn and contribute to the team on this front as well. Additionally, this person will have the opportunity to contribute to our extremely well-read blog about any technical topic of interest, including day-to-day work or outside interests.

Requirements:

• Strong programming in multiple languages (C, Java, Ruby, etc)
• Deep understanding of the TCP/IP stack and OSI model
• Cursory knowledge of application layer protocols
• Creative problem solving approach to projects
• Able to work under pressure to meet aggressive deadlines
• Comfort in a fast-paced startup environment

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Expertise in Ruby
• Expertise in application layer protocols
• In-depth knowledge of protocol analyzers (e.g. Wireshark)
• Understanding of XML

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.

Graphic Designer / Flash Developer

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.

Flex UI Developer

BreakingPoint is a manufacture of ultra high-speed network & security test devices controlled via a Flash-based user interface. We are looking for a Software Engineer and Flex UI Developer to help improve our user interface. In this role, you will be responsible for design of user interaction and functional implementation of UI internals.

Requirements:

• Strong programming skills in Actionscript 3.0
• Experience with Flex development
• Flash development experience desired
• Actionscript 2.0 knowledge desired
• Working knowledge of HTML and web design
• Familiarity with Javascript preferred
• Familiarity with XML preferred
• Creative, problem-solving approach to projects
• Comfort in a fast-paced startup environment
• Previous experience with high-performance network equipment development a plus
• Right to work in the United States

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.

Software Engineer [Management Layer]

BreakingPoint, a manufacture of ultra high-speed network & security test products, is looking for a Software Engineer to be assist in development of the management layer of our product. This subsystem is responsible for data management, job control, and system status monitoring. Job responsibilities may also include some web-based interface development for BreakingPoint’s multi-gigabit network testers.

Requirements:

• Strong Java programming skills
• Experience with database development, especially PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with Linux and GNU/Linux tools
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and other network protocols
• Working knowledge of HTML, XML
• Familiarity with Google Web Toolkit desired
• Programming skills in multiple languages desired (TCL, ActionScript, Python, etc)
• Creative, problem-solving approach to projects
• Comfort in a fast-paced startup environment

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.

Security Research Engineer

BreakingPoint Systems, a manufacturer of comprehensive application, performance and security testing tools, is looking for a Security Research Engineer to research new vulnerabilities in networking enabled products and then develop live exploits for those vulnerabilities for our product. In this role, you will be responsible for developing tools, performing targeted research, developing exploits and test cases and writing papers. A Security Research Engineer will be expected to work closely with the other members of the team and report to the Chief Technology Officer.

Requirements:

• Broad knowledge of network protocols
• Good programming skills in multiple languages (C, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Creative, problem-solving approach to projects
• Experience administering a variety of network and server equipment
• Comfort in a fast-paced start-up environment
• At least one publicly available vulnerability discovery, exploit development and/or open source tool
• Must have a willingness to do whatever is required to meet aggressive deadlines
• Strong domain knowledge in vulnerability research and exploit development

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.

Federal Sales Manager

Responsible for sales coverage of the Federal Intelligence community, DOD Joint Commands, the emerging Cyber Command and other DOD agencies for BreakingPoint Systems. Applicant should have extensive experience and success with federal system sales for network security, application (L4-7) and performance testing scenarios. This position will require an active Top Secret clearance and a history of success in selling to DoD, Intel, and Civilian as well as with top federal integrators. This position will provide key input into marketing strategies and long-range business plans for the BreakingPoint's Government Solutions Group.

In addition to above skill sets, this position will identify and participate in marketing events, such as trade shows and seminars that support growth and campaigns in support of specific objectives. Individual will also work in conjunction with the business unit, group and corporate marketing communications staff to develop advertising and marketing collateral that supports specific products and marketing objectives. Frequent travel up to 75% may be required customer visits to support other business development, strategic planning, and to support direct work requirements.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

• Ability to describe how one's job role aligns and supports the company vision and overall strategy
• Ability to work cross-functionally across the organization to achieve results
• Identify and develop customer account base
• Working independently to meet and exceed monthly, quarterly and annual revenue targets
• Identifying business needs, managing accounts, cold calling, prospecting, developing a thorough needs analysis and closing targeted opportunities
• Maintaining opportunities inside BreakingPoint Systems' existing CRM systems. These duties include pipeline management, next step planning and a thorough knowledge of the CRM system
• Ability to negotiate opportunities within a prospected environment
• Ability to understand the client's requirements, meet deadlines and commitments and thorough follow up with clients
• Successfully manage and lead the daily activities of Sales Engineer

Required Skills:

• Bachelors degree in business or related field
• 10 + years experience in sales of professional services selling to the government sector
• Outstanding communication and time management skills
• Proven ability to generate and close new federal business
• Strong work ethic and ability to work independently to achieve success
• Solid understanding off federal government contracts
• Familiarity with the National Cyber Initiatives
• Operational and program level knowledge of the command and control environment is required
• US Citizenship is required
• Active Top Secret Security Clearance
• Government acquisition experience is a significant plus

Useful Skills:

• Previous military or federal government experience
• A creative and independent thinker who is extremely ethical and likes challenge

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.

Sales Systems Engineer, BreakingPoint Government Solutions Group

BreakingPoint Systems Government Solutions Group is looking for a Sales Systems Engineer. The pre-sales Systems Engineer (SE) is responsible for supporting their assigned Government Solutions Group Sales Director with all technical elements of the sales process while selling BreakingPoint process to potential customers and resellers. The Systems Engineer’s primary charter is to obtain solution closure within the sales cycle from the technical buyer, and to maintain account satisfaction with BreakingPoint products.

Requirements:

• Travel to visit potential and existing clients in order to establish new, and maintain existing, long-term relationships with customers
• Configuring BreakingPoint products for evaluation and proof of concepts, as well as managing the on-site customer demonstration to obtain solution closure
• Establish trusted advisory partnerships with key customers to define technology direction and adaptation of emerging technologies; perform effective technical opportunity analysis of accounts to know who the key solution decision makers are and maintain effective relationships with those key individuals
• Perform detailed high quality presentations to technical and executive audiences
• Assist with training of product to customer
• Maintain thorough BreakingPoint product knowledge through new releases and product upgrades
• Effectively balance independent projects while working collaboratively in a team environment and leading growth initiatives
• Remain confident, energetic, and decisive asserting their duties as a System Engineer
• Maintain knowledge of competitive products
• Passion for customer service and success

The selected candidate must have a minimum 5 years of professional industry experience selling into the federal government especially DoD and intelligence agencies. Demonstrate understanding and proficiency in Layer 4-7 applications and content aware technologies such as IPS/IDS, firewalls, deep packet inspection and load balancers. Be able to configure and understand the test environment-IP addressing, client/server, traffic types, and performance benchmarks. The candidate must possess direct experience and knowledge of agencies’ process of product evaluation and certification using traffic and threat generation tools. Possess a professional appearance and the ability to provide a positive company image.

Additional Requirments Include:

• Must have active secret or top secret or top secret level clearance
• Strong written and verbal communications skills are required for this role and the candidate should provide examples of their work on request
• Advanced specialization skill in network security products, threat environments and performance traffic generation
• Ability to travel extensively to domestic federal agency locations

If qualified for this position email your resume to jobs@breakingpoint.com.