Principal Security Engineer, ID.me

• If you love innovation, here's your chance to make a career of it by advancing the digital identity ecosystem
• We are seeking a talented Principal Security Engineer who enjoys the challenges of combining software and systems engineering to design, build, run, and automate distributed, fault-tolerant security solutions at scale
• 12+ years of experience in security engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, or SRE roles
• 7+ years experience engineering, running, and automating security infrastructure
• Strong background with public cloud technologies, preferably GCP and AWS
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure security best practices
• Strong background with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Experience with scaled indexed logging or SIEM solutions (e.g. Splunk, ElasticSearch, Exabeam)
• Experience with container computing and container orchestration (e.g. proprietary systems such as GKE, multi-cloud solutions such as Kubernetes, or Nomad)
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration and solid networking knowledge
• Experience in scripting or software development (i.e. Python, Ruby, Go)
• Experience with observability tools (Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc.)
• The ability to take a systematic approach to analyzing, troubleshooting, and diagnosing system problems to identify, locate, resolve, and repair problems
• Possess a breadth of engineering skills with an interest in service reliability, automation, monitoring, and capacity planning
• Must have an obsession for building quality products
• Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Must be a team player with a strong, self-managing work ethic
• Must be a self-starter with a passion for software engineering, learning and continuous improvement

Desirable

• ID.me is looking for a Principal Security Engineer to add to our growing security team
• You will ensure that our security infrastructure is high performance, resilient, secure and observable
• The Principal Security Engineer will also have the opportunity to provide thought leadership, research, and innovation on a broad scale
• Exercise a longer-term, more strategic outlook, influencing people within team, within Security, and within peer teams
• Set technology direction and roadmap for development and continuous improvement of security infrastructure
• Lead system and solution design for security infrastructure across the team and ensure design is well-understood and documented
• Optimize security systems for the future and not just for an immediate need or benefit
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve reliability, stability, and performance
• Ensure all systems are optimized for ease of maintenance and have in place monitoring, logging, business continuity, scaling capabilities
• Ensure security infrastructure systems are replaceable with the least amount of effort necessary
• Dig deep into complex problems either lacking a clear approach or with a high degree of execution risk and find an appropriate path forward
• Maintain many of the essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships necessary for the team's success
• Be a role model for the team and the security organization and shape the culture
• Help, teach, and mentor the less experienced engineers on the team
• Define standards and best practices for the team and the security organization
• Improve the quality of the output of the team - code, technical documentation, operational processes