Staff Infrastructure 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
• Partner with engineering teams to review cloud and compute architecture design changes
• Establish threat models for cloud and compute paved roads to identify security risks
• Develop or adopt open-source tools to monitor and harden our cloud Infrastructure, harden our OS, develop security logging pipelines and detect intrusions
• Apply your expert knowledge of security best practices for AWS and Kubernetes to inform remediations and the team’s control roadmap
• Drive the definition and implementation of security policies and monitor in conformance to the policies
• Write code for automations that support security requirements like threat detection, incident containment, and network access management
• Conduct initial incident triage; determine scope, urgency, and potential impact of security incidents; participate in the incident response process