Senior Security Engineer, Turo
Application Security
$167-185k
+ Equity
Car sharing marketplace
Job no longer available
Car sharing marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$167-185k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Turo's mission is to put the world's cars to better use.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Software Development
- A BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Cybersecurity or Information Assurance or equivalent industry experience
- Experience in exploiting common attack patterns and exploitation techniques on web applications, threat modeling, OWASP Top 10, and secure architecture review
- Experience with web application security testing tools such as Burp Suite, open source scanners and/or vendor products
- Experience developing software ideally in Python, Java and Kotlin
- Strong understanding of web and mobile application security
- Experience working on cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and its Security services suite
- Solid understanding or experience working in containerized environments and familiarity with GitOps flow
- The proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision and ability to perform and oversee complex tasks and prioritize multiple tasks based on overall strategic goals
- Real passion for technology and desire to build tooling from ground-up and to tackle complex problems with creative solutions
- The capability to interface with multiple levels of the organization and to serve as an influencer and a team player
- Strong presentation, facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- Turo is searching for a highly motivated and versatile Security Engineer to join our IT & Security governance team. You will be relied upon to provide engineering and product teams with security expertise necessary to confident product decisions
- You'll work closely with counterparts in IT and Engineering teams to ensure our applications and services are designed and implemented with having security builtin to the highest standards
- If you enjoy analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues and quickly reacting to new threat scenarios, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity
- You will participate in security and architecture reviews for new and existing features, vulnerability testing, internal and external pentests across all elements of Turo’s systems
- Lead external bug bounty program to triage identified bugs and work with engineering and product teams on remediation
- Advocate secure design principles, secure coding practices to Engineering teams and undertake secure coding best practices training with groups of developers
- Evangelize Software Development LifeCycle to incorporate design and code reviews of our product
- Work on developing & maintaining existing tools to aid Engineering teams build applications in a secure way, assess application security risks at runtime
- Identify gaps in apps and services lacking proper security scans, build-out and execute on a project roadmap to ensure 100% coverage across all assets
- Maintain and manage internal SAST tooling by ensuring code coverage for all repos, maintain existing rulesets, write custom rules to reduce false positives and drive security awareness and adoption into SDLC
- Threat model current, new applications and features along with existing and new third-party integrations to identify and quantify threats and recommend remediation methods
- Assist in improving security of new business units by analyzing current security risks, creating security processes and onboarding security tools
- Assist in Security Incident Response as needed
- Bring your creativity to bear by proposing innovative approaches and emerging technologies to help solve security compliance challenges
- Stay up to date on emerging information technology trends and security standards
Our take
Turo is the world’s largest car rental marketplace. The comparisons with AirBnb are obvious but not unfounded - ‘hosts’ make their cars available to ‘guests’ who benefit from short-term rentals without the cost of purchasing their own automobile.
The startup has reinvented the car-rental marketplace, previously dominated by incumbents like Avis. By allowing users to rent directly from the car owner themselves, Turo is bringing transparency, efficiency, and liquidity to the industry while hosts earn additional income.
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges the company needs to overcome is similar to those that plagued other major sharing-economy companies like Uber - regulation. Specifically Turo faces disputes over bad-faith hosts and from incumbent players, especially regarding airport use. Since its 2022 IPO, Turo has been eyeing further global expansion and targeting a series of strategic acquisitions and partnerships which will expand its product suite for hosts and guests alike.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2020
$30m
SERIES E
Jul 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $464m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision coverage
- Time off to volunteer
- Travel credit each month to grab a car and go explore
- 28 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We’re a great bunch - Our people are our #1 asset, and each team member uniquely invigorates our diverse, international, travel- and car-loving cast of characters
- We’re in it to win it - We tackle thorny problems every day. We tinker, we experiment, we measure, analyze, and optimize, and we work tirelessly to realize our mission and vision
- We’re doing cool stuff - From dynamic web and mobile apps to customer experiences that refresh confidence in humankind, we’re crafting a brand that brings adventure to the logistics of travel
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Andre Haddad
(CEO, not founder)Previously worked for 10 years at eBay, holding various positions such as CEO - Shopping.com & Vice President - User Experience & Design.
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