About Spider Labs

Minato-ku, Tokyo

Spider ‎‎AF is an ad fraud countermeasure tool. We support ad networks, advertisers, and agencies. We have many happy customers across the digital advertising industry.

Key benefits

  • Flexible, relaxed work environment
  • Diverse, international team
  • Family friendly

About the position

The Spider Labs’ research and development activities cover developing technology and insights that ensures Spider Labs stays relevant in the medium to long-term (3-10 years). This involves leading technology change that impacts the whole industry. The solutions developed saves our clients multiple millions of dollars in fraud and prevents abuse on their services.

As an R&D Engineer, you will be responsible for pushing the state of the art, conducting investigations, creating and validating prototypes, and developing technology that can be used in high-throughput real time web environments.

Requirements

  • A degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Experience in a role involving R&D, especially in a cyber security field
  • Comprehensive knowledge of network stacks, Operative systems and Browsers and web & mobile ecosystems
  • Experience intercepting traffic & reverse engineering; Experience in generating of indicators of compromise for use in detecting anomalous activities
  • Self-motivated, with the drive and initiative to carry out projects according to plan, and the ability to quickly adapt in a fast-changing business environment
  • Experience with network packet filtering / processing
  • Experience with Javascript runtime environment and implementation details that differ cross browsers
  • Advanced understanding of lower level programming in C, C++ or Rust
  • Advanced understanding of algorithms & operating systems

Nice to have

While not required, tell us if you have experience with any of the following.

  • Previous experience in startup environments
  • Fraud or anomaly detection experience
  • Online and mobile advertisement knowledge

Meet Spider Labs's Developers

Using the Elixir programming language to fight crime

with Eurico Doirado

Eurico is the CTO of Spider Labs, whose ad fraud detection tool handles billions of requests and terabytes of data on a daily basis. The Elixir programming language has been instrumental in helping them reach this scale.

Read his story...

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About Spider Labs

Minato-ku, Tokyo

Spider ‎‎AF is an ad fraud countermeasure tool. We support ad networks, advertisers, and agencies. We have many happy customers across the digital advertising industry.

Key benefits

  • Flexible, relaxed work environment
  • Diverse, international team
  • Family friendly

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