Security Engineer

Phoenix, Arizona

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Position SummaryVirtuous is looking for security engineers to partner with our engineering teams working on new, and enhancing existing, products and features. You will collaborate with developers to protect Virtuous services and design a secure foundation for the Platform at large. Your work will include full end-to-end security assurance activities including security architecture, threat modeling, some security testing, and risk management. If you love diving into different complex technical systems, sharing security improvements, and staying organized enough to ride the chaos in a fast-moving startup environment, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

  • Primary security team point of contact for several large engineering efforts
  • Work with the engineering teams throughout their development lifecycle
  • Conduct security reviews and develop threat models, use the insights from these engagements to create standard methodologies
  • Define, automate and advocate for platform-wide security improvements
  • Partner with colleagues to raise the security bar for all engineering teams at Virtuous
  • Technical specialist responsible for the security of Virtuous’ internet-facing services and backend infrastructure 
  • Be innately curious, listening for nuances and digging into details to understand systems and their weaknesses
  • Able to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establish appropriate security goals 
  • Experienced and comfortable building relationships with teams to drive security improvements 
  • Current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies 
  • An excellent verbal and written communicator.
  • Able to develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows 
  • Able to use data to drive security review efficiency and prioritize high-value security team engagement 
  • Responsible for security decisions impacting potentially millions of users

Key Qualifications

  • 5 or more years conducting security reviews, threat modeling, tracking findings, and communicating risk to engineering and leadership
  • Knowledgeable about distributed systems’ design patterns and security implications
  • Experience with common infrastructure components including: network architecture, server fleet provisioning and configuration, OOB management, storage, load balancing, virtualization, Kubernetes
  • Conversant in at least one programming language such as C#, Java, Python
Education & ExperienceBachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering with emphasis in security related fields (or equivalent experience) Certs like OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, etc. helpful but not vital. Bonus points for community contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, etc.
What We Offer- 401k with match- Unlimited PTO- Paid volunteer time - Medical/Dental/Vision BenefitsDependents are also eligible for coverage- HSA/FSA offerings- OneMedical, Talkspace, & Teladoc Memberships- Fun company outings and events

* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰

Tags: C Computer Science Java Kubernetes Open Source OSCE OSCP OSEE Python Risk management Vulnerabilities

Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Health care Startup environment Team events Unlimited paid time off

Region: North America
Country: United States
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