Software Security Engineer, Reddit
Threat Detection
$164.2-229.9k
+ Restricted stock units
More information about location
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$164.2-229.9k
+ Restricted stock units
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Strong coder with skills in Go/Python/shell scripts and knowledge of Splunk/SQL/BigQuery/Sigma
- Security Software Engineer with hands-on experience creating threat detections, performing remediation, and leading incident response for an international remote-enabled workforce
- Software Engineer familiar with git and cloud tools like Terraform, Ansible, or associated concepts
- Software Admin or Technical Customer Support Expert with 1+ years managing Security Tools, MacOS, Windows, Linux, &/or Cloud infrastructure
- Security wizard with 3+ years of experience within one or more areas: detections engineering, threat intelligence, endpoint hardening, device management, network/vpn/proxy/zero trust, XDR/EDR, DLP, insider threat processes, email security, forensic analysis, reverse engineering, data engineering, penetration testing
- Human not reliant on ChapGPT to communicate effectively with business representatives, explaining security topics (ELI5)
What the job involves
- This is a Threat Detections role within the SPACE Security Intelligence Center
- We are incident commanders with product administration experience who analyze security threats, build detections, and respond to security events
- We value builders and software engineers with broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of insider threat, data analytics, system forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and application, endpoint, & cloud/infrastructure security
- Security is tough, diversity is key, so unique experience is highly valued!
- If you are passionate about data, security, threat models, and building creative mitigations, we need you
- The ideal candidate has a strong coding background and has worked as part of a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
- We are looking for those with experience building creative detections and response automations, mapping detections to various security models, and deriving actionable intelligence to provide high fidelity alerting
- You will help build a scalable detection and incident response system to analyze security events and find anomalies across Reddit’s technical ecosystem (endpoints, cloud, and SaaS)
- Building new and more powerful observability and detections tools
- Migrating log collection and detections from COTS to open source solutions
- Empowering admins and engineers by integrating with existing Reddit tooling to enable robust and distributed detection and response processes
- Promoting Reddit’s unique combination of Privacy & Security
- Working across teams to ensure initiatives are greater than the sum of their parts
- This position has flexibility throughout threat detections and incident response with ample opportunity to dive deeper across a wide scope of work
- You will be a major contributor to the creation of new detections during the migration to custom tooling
- You will also partner with many teams to onboard new data sources and optimize processes that enable all engineers to contribute to Reddit’s Security & Privacy mission
- Develop, enhance, and implement detections
- Build and enhance processes for automating security controls and monitoring at scale
- Analyze security events, and Lead incident response activities, Join the on-call rotation
- Support security initiatives across the organization that harden our infrastructure against attack
- Provide recommendations and support for insider threat programs
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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