Staff Security Software Engineer, Quora

• Sweat The Right Details: you thrive in understanding the details but will also know to ruthlessly prioritize the critical issues
• Right-Size The Solution: you recognize guidelines and framework do not always fit the problem and know how to adjust the solution for scalability not always at-scale
• Ownership: you are outcome focused and can deftly navigate obstacles, decompose complexities, manage your time and can communicate your vision to peers and management

Desirable

• You will be a key member of the newly created Security Engineering Team, with a mission to keep Quora safe from security problems by building robust protections around our products, infrastructure and people
• Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day
• We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas
• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's "coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• Design, develop, and deploy applications to monitor cloud Infrastructure security and detect intrusions
• Deploy open-source tools or develop in-house solutions for OS hardening, access logging & analysis
• Build features or tools to ensure strong security in Quora product
• Provide security guidance to engineering teams and work with the product engineer on securing customer data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
• Drive the definition and implementation of security policies and monitor in conformance to the policies
• Conduct initial incident triage; determine scope, urgency, and potential impact of security incidents; lead and coordinate the incident response process