Software Developer – Web Crawling (m/w/d)

Maltego Monitor - PublicSonar; München; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A tech scale-up company in Munich is seeking a skilled professional to develop and improve social media crawlers for law-enforcement investigations. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Python and web technologies, and is passionate about contributing to open-source projects. Join a dynamic team that values inclusion and innovation in the field of cyber intelligence.

Leistungen

Supported language courses

Company pension scheme

Mental health support

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years of working experience, preferably in Python.
• Deep understanding of overall web-technology landscape.
• Interested in test development and clean code principles.

Aufgaben

• Work on social media crawlers in law-enforcement investigations.
• Implement data collection procedures and reverse engineering APIs.
• Contribute to Django backend and frontend development.

Kenntnisse

Python

Web-crawling using Selenium

Web API design and implementation

CI/CD pipelines

English communication

Social networks understanding

Ausbildung

Degree in computer science or similar

Tools

GitLab-CI

Jenkins

GraphQL

Jobbeschreibung

Why we need you

Maltego is a leading provider of intelligence software used globally by security professionals, investigators, and analysts. Our all-in-one platform empowers users to discover, visualize, and analyze complex relationships in data, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making. Our core products—Search, Graph, Evidence, and Monitor—are trusted by law enforcement, cybersecurity teams, and corporate investigators worldwide.

What to expect

In This Role, You Will

• Work on the most in-depth social media crawlers used in law‑enforcement investigations around the world to fight crime by gathering indisputable evidence
• Take ownership over selected social network crawling modules by implementing novel data collection procedures and reverse engineering APIs
• Stay up to date with the open source community on how to extract relevant information from websites and social networks
• Improve the automated testing suite of our crawlers
• Contribute to our Django backend development or even frontend development, as well as our open source libraries on PyPI, if you want to expand your technical breadth

Your profile in short

• Degree in computer science or similar subjects
• 3+ years of working experience preferably in Python
• Experience in web‑crawling using Selenium or other similar tools
• Deep understanding of overall web‑technology landscape (you should be able to put words like Ajax, GraphQL, ProtoBuf, jQuery or CORS into the right categories)
• Experience in the design and implementation of Web APIs, and usage of GraphQL desired
• Experience in building and maintaining CI pipelines using GitLab‑CI or similar applications like Jenkins or GitHub
• Excellent communication in English, German is a big plus
• Interested in test development and clean code principles
• Regular user of social networks and understand their fundamental mechanics

Why you will love Maltego

Maltego is a scale‑up company. We provide you with the benefits and security of larger corporations, coupled with the dynamic and fast‑paced work environment and flat hierarchies of a start‑up. We are proud to have a large global community that loves our product because it helps to solve the investigations that are most important.

• Insights into the daily operations of a fast‑growing tech scale‑up
• Opportunity to quickly take over responsibility and make a direct and long‑lasting impact
• Inclusive, diverse culture, where your voice and contributions matter
• Supported language courses
• Company pension scheme
• Mental health support via .nilo (psychologists & digital tools)

At Maltego, we are committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in our organization. We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.

Location

Our Munich office or remotely from Germany

Required documents / information

Please apply with your CV and cover letter.

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About Us

Maltego is the all‑in‑one investigation platform that accelerates complex cyber and OSINT investigations from hours to minutes. The Maltego platform powers preliminary quick OSINT investigations for digital profiling with Maltego Search as well as complex link analysis for large datasets with Maltego Graph. Through Maltego Evidence and Maltego Monitor, the platform enables investigators to collect, monitor and preserve social media intelligence in real‑time for prosecution and public safety. Whether cyber threat intelligence teams or law enforcement, Maltego equips your teams with the most essential and relevant data, with out‑of‑the‑box access to common data sources and over 100 ready‑made connectors to more. Mine, merge and map all your essential intelligence in one place, and uncover hidden truths with Maltego!

Learn more about how we can empower your investigations at www.maltego.com.