Senior Security Engineer, Criteo
Yellow Team
Global commerce media platform
Open for applications
Global commerce media platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring richer experiences to every consumer by powering the world’s marketers and media owners with trusted and impactful advertising.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 3+ years professional SRE and/or SDE experience
- Deep understanding of SRE best practices (i.e. Google SRE Books)
- Strong computer science fundamentals (computer architecture, operating systems concepts)
- Ability to produce, understand, and analyse code in at least one popular programming language without assistance
- Ability to heavily leverage LLMs in your daily work, while maintaining a strong understanding of the output, as well as potential pitfalls
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Cybersecurity experience is a plus but not required
- Interest in cybersecurity
- Ability to influence without authority to drive security best practices
- Organizational skills to manage multiple complex tasks effectively
- Perseverance in continuously improving security systems and tackling
What the job involves
- As a Senior Security Engineer in the “Security Yellow” team, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to protect Criteo from cybersecurity threats
- Criteo’s technical environment is complex, consisting of thousands of custom services, over 40,000 servers and a diverse technology stack spanning hybrid cloud and on-premise environments
- Your role will be a blend of software engineering, and site reliability engineering
- Develop software that bridges traditional security tools (like SIEMs) with cutting edge technologies like frontier-LLMs, to help ensure that Criteo’s cyber defences evolve more rapidly than the threat actors who target us
- Assist Criteo engineers in integrating security into the software they design
- Create and extend systems that solve technical problems that are core to security. Examples:
- Secrets management
- Asset tracking
- Detection & Response
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Run, monitor, and maintain range of custom built, open source, and paid security systems spanning on-premise and cloud infrastructure
- ElasticSearch (ELK) stack
- OpenCTI
- Fleetdm
- Hashicorp Vault
- Respond to production incidents impacting security systems that run on both Kubernetes and bare metal servers
- Translate Blue team challenges and requirements into concrete technical solutions that empower them to prevent, detect and respond to security threats
- Work closely with Security Blue team to ensure the security right tools and infrastructure is in place
- Collaborate with engineers across the company, helping them integrate security into their designs
Our take
Commerce marketing is a huge business with billions of pounds spent every year on adverts. Companies that help businesses create and deliver more targeted adverts can command a lot of value. Criteo is one company operating in this space.
Criteo is a personalized retargeting company connects 22,000+ marketers and media owners through its Commerce Media Platform, delivering richer consumer experiences. Criteo uses machine-learning technology and data to drive performance, helping marketers and media owners reach their goals.
As marketers are increasingly looking for commerce media solutions, Criteo is operating in a sought-after space. Further, around 73% of media owners seek to optimise media performance as a way to both generate awareness and drive revenue, meaning the company has a significant potential client base. Criteo has continued to make headway here, driving 5 billion ads per day, and is well set to see further adoption of its platform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2012
$38.6m
SERIES D
May 2010
$7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $59.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work and WFH Opportunities
- Learning & Development
- Best-in-Class Health and Wellbeing Benefits & Perks Across Regions
Company HQ
New Athens, Paris, France
Leadership
Megan Clarken
(CEO, not founder)Held multiple senior-level roles at Nielson, having joined as a Product Specialist and being promoted to Chief Commercial Officer.
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