SecDevOps Security Engineer

Do you believe that creators should have the ability to get paid for the value they give to their fans? 

We do, which is why we're building Patreon, a platform that powers membership services for creators with established followings. Patreon strives to provide creators with insight, education, and tools that make it possible to retain creative control while running their creative business, so creators can focus on creating and energizing their fanbases.

Our user base has doubled in the last year alone, and we have paid over $1 billion directly to creators on our platform. Bringing Patreon to creators and patrons all over the world is essential to achieving our mission. In order to support this growth, we are looking for a SecDevOps Security Engineer. 

What you will do:

• Build systems and processes to scale security operations to meet Patreon’s needs.
• Apply fundamental security concepts to systems and consult with teams on their system designs. 
• Design and implement systems to report on security performance metrics. 
• Designing and implement systems that enforce various compliance regulations, leveraging automation. 
• Help design systems that adhere to the provably secure and secure by design methodologies.

Skills and experience you possess:

• 3-4 years experience across multiple technical stacks, with special attention to product scalability, usability, and performance.
• You know industry best practices for software design and coding standards.
• You are a great communicator who can explain technical issues and risks to a broad, non-technical audience. You work well with engineering, legal, product, executives, and others. You tailor your communication style, level of detail, and approach based on the audience.
• You are a strong collaborator and can influence technical teams, and you take them along with you.
• You operate effectively across teams and disciplines even in highly ambiguous situations.
• You have experience building inclusive team cultures.
• You care about building great products and a great company that matters.
• You have  the ability to design and implement data privacy systems and controls.
• You have knowledge of cryptography and cryptographic implementation of best practices.
• You have experience building out APIs and tools that are privacy focused.

Projects you may work on:

• Maintenance and incident response for Transcend integration (privacy request management software).
• Maintenance and incident response for Ketch integration (consent management software). 
• Collaboration with Legal & Policy to create a Data Map (required documentation for a potential IPO opportunity).
• Collaboration with Legal & Policy to create formalized API process; Security review of newly-integrated APIs; Auditing existing APIs.
• Security breach incident response process documented in coordination with legal.
• Maintenance of Repository for Data Breaches and Data Privacy Impact Assessments.

What you will have the chance to learn:

• Build a new sensitive and restricted data environment from the ground up.
• Ability to collaborate on creating new technology to protect both the content creator and the patrons.

Who you'll work with:

At Patreon, you'll join a high-performing and highly-empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission of funding the creative class. Our culture of creator-first, thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching, and rewarding.

Our Core Behaviors:

• Put Creators First. Patreon is nothing without our creators. 
• Achieve Ambitious Outcomes. Set, measure, and accomplish goals that deliver massive value to our creators and patrons. 
• Cultivate Inclusion. We want an environment that retains and engages the diverse teams we build.
• Bias Towards Action. When in doubt, we take the next best step, then course correct when needed. We go out of our way to fix problems when we see them. We take ownership seriously.
• Be Candid and Kind. Be extremely caring and extremely direct in all you do at Patreon, especially when it comes to giving positive and constructive feedback. 
• Be Curious. You don’t know it all, and that’s the fun part. Everything gets better when you’re curious. Things get more interesting, more clear, and more approachable. When you bring curiosity into the workplace, you’re growing yourself, your teammates, and Patreon as a whole.

Want to learn more about Patreon?

• Check out our reviews on Glassdoor
• Check to see if you know a Patreon teammate on LinkedIn