Senior Cloud Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA
#TeamNextdoor
Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.
Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 300,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.
Meet your Future Neighbors
As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer with Nextdoor, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) (100% Telecommuting permitted) you’ll:
- Deploy services to provision secure by default infrastructure that meets the needs of both security, backend, and product engineering teams.
- Design and implement security monitoring for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Serverless.
- Provide best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, and cloud-ready application architectures.
- Partner with developers, systems and site reliability engineers to understand their challenges, work through their issues and provide secure solutions that can be adopted widely.
- Enhance the network scanning, and cloud service provider configuration scanning to ensure critical vulnerabilities do not exist in the environment.
- Analyze the security of applications and services to discover and address security issues, build security automation, and decisively take action to mitigate emerging threats throughout a full secure development life-cycle (SDLC).
- Lead security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices) with end-to-end ownership.
- Develop, document, and maintain security and compliance architecture standards for cloud.
What You’ll Bring to The House
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or closely related technical discipline.
- Three (3) years of experience in the position offered or as an Android Applications Engineer, Project Engineer, or closely related position.
- In the alternative, will accept a Bachelor’s degree in the fields above followed by five (5) years of progressive, post-bachelor’ s experience in positions specified above.
- Must have demonstrated experience in the following: Utilizing Agile and software development processes at all levels of software delivery lifecycle (requirements gathering, documentation, design, development, code review, testing and production support); Utilizing AWS architecture to design and implement AWS resources in a cloud infrastructure to ensure that customers are following best practices, guidance, and recommendations to develop and maintain cloud solutions; Utilizing AWS cloud foundation services to manage computing, networking, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment, and automation technologies; Collaborating with Security Analysts to tune and enhance Information Security solutions and technologies to keep up with the latest threats; Utilizing Serverless to build and run applications and services; Utilizing Java, Python and Golang to perform data analysis and deploy security controls; and Utilizing AWS- DynamoDB, Elasticache, and Relational Database (RDS) to design, develop and add new features to the application/platform following design patterns and best practices.
Rewards
Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $170,685 - $209,880/year on an annualized basis.
We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.
Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
We have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision – and provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the customers we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Tags: Agile Android Automation AWS Cloud Compliance Computer Science DynamoDB Golang Java Kubernetes Monitoring Python RDBMS SDLC Vulnerabilities
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