POSITION OVERVIEWAbout the Role
ThreatLocker is seeking a skilled and motivated Web API Developer to join our cybersecurity engineering team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable RESTful APIs using C#/.NET. These APIs connect critical components of ThreatLocker's endpoint protection platform, including agents, services, data layers, and user-facing applications.
The ideal candidate has solid experience with C#/.NET and Web API development, along with a working understanding of the MVC pattern and separation of concerns. You will collaborate with experienced developers and cross-functional teams to build reliable endpoints, improve existing services, and continue growing your technical skills.
We value developers who write clear, maintainable code, approach security thoughtfully, and enjoy solving practical problems as part of a collaborative team.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure RESTful Web APIs using C#/.NET.
- Apply the MVC pattern and separation of concerns when organizing controllers, models, services, and data-access components.
- Implement API endpoints with appropriate request validation, authentication, authorization, error handling, and logging.
- Integrate APIs with SQL Server and other internal services while considering reliability and performance.
- Diagnose and resolve issues involving API behavior, request processing, concurrency, and data access.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, QA, and other teams to refine requirements and deliver dependable solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement of the codebase and development process.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of three years of professional experience developing applications with C#/.NET and ASP.NET Web API or ASP.NET Core.
- Working knowledge of the MVC pattern, including controllers, models, routing, dependency injection, middleware, and request/response handling.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs using HTTP methods, status codes, and JSON.
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming, exception handling, logging, and debugging in .NET.
- Hands-on experience using ADO.NET directly for SQL Server data access, including commands, parameters, stored procedures, transactions, and data readers.
- Understanding of secure coding practices, including input validation, authentication, authorization, and protection of sensitive data.
- Experience using Git, participating in code reviews, and working within a collaborative development workflow.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with both .NET Framework and modern .NET, including .NET 8.
- Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman, and automated unit or integration testing.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, or automated build and deployment workflows.
- Exposure to cybersecurity, endpoint protection, or other security-focused software products.
- Understanding of API performance, scalability, monitoring, and observability concepts.
- Familiarity with containerized environments, cloud platforms, or IIS-hosted applications.
- Microsoft, .NET, cloud, or cybersecurity certifications are a plus.
WORKING CONDITIONSThe duties described below are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this position. If necessary, reasonable accommodation may be requested and will be evaluated for its relationship to the essential functions that must be performed.
- Job will generally be performed in an office environment but may require travel to visit company offices and/or property locations.
- While performing duties of this job, would occasionally require to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop or kneel, talk and hear, and use fingers and hands to feel objects and tools.
- Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, depth perceptions, and the ability to adjust focus.
