Senior Security Engineer, Compass

• You take an automation-first approach to everything you do. You understand the challenges of scale for security and leverage automation whenever possible
• A proactive mindset, with the ability to identify and address security gaps or inefficiencies through automation and tooling
• Expertise in the security of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP)
• Proficient in a programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, Golang, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to think critically and objectively assess security risks
• Excitement about collaborating with cross-functional teams to build secure, reliable systems that scale globally
• Able to communicate about security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques in an accessible way to a variety of audiences
• Comfortable teaching and leading development teams toward better security outcomes

Desirable

• We are hands-on security engineers helping to build secure, resilient, and scalable web platforms
• We work with a diverse set of teams to provide and support transparent and automated security tooling and services
• We architect secure web products, perform simulated attacks, identify weaknesses, and work with teams to remediate and protect our products
• You will help lead our efforts to build security as a service to drive safe-by-default environments and drive customer trust
• ​​This role involves a combination of partnership, hands-on engineering, infrastructure security, and automation
• Enable autonomy for engineers to develop securely through safe-by-default tooling, configuration, and policy. All while ensuring engineering velocity is maintained by automating security requirements and building guardrails
• Design and implement scalable systems and controls to secure cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to drive deployment of security enhancements and control changes across our cloud infrastructure and development platform
• Build enduring and high-trust partnerships with colleagues across Engineering
• Help investigate and respond to security events, then work with teams to guide and improve their practices
• Be a go-to expert for cloud security, coming up with smart ways to keep things secure while still moving fast to meet urgent needs
• Participate in code reviews, write tests, and contribute to documentation and operational excellence initiatives