Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure Security

🕒 June 25

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $172.3k - $249.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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Quora

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

📱 Media

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $85M Series D on 2017-04

Media • Education • Artificial Intelligence

Quora is a global knowledge sharing platform that enables over 400 million monthly unique users to connect and share insights on a wide range of topics. Its mission is to democratize access to human knowledge trapped in people's experiences or buried in books and papers. By providing a platform for learning, sharing, and community engagement, Quora aims to enhance the collective knowledge of the world. The company also offers Poe, a feature that allows users to ask questions and engage in back-and-forth conversations with artificial intelligence.

📋 Description

• Support Quora and Poe products as a member of the Security Engineering Team • Partner with engineering teams to review cloud and compute architecture design changes • Establish threat models for cloud and compute paved roads • Develop or adopt open-source tools to monitor and harden cloud infrastructure and operating systems • Develop security logging pipelines and detect intrusions • Apply AWS and Kubernetes security best practices to inform remediations and the team's control roadmap • Define and implement security policies and monitor conformance • Write automation code for threat detection, incident containment, and network access management • Conduct initial incident triage by determining scope, urgency, and potential impact • Participate in the incident response process

🎯 Requirements

• Capable software engineer with expertise in at least one security domain • Hands-on experience securing large-scale cloud environments, particularly AWS • Experience building secure infrastructure-as-code pipelines using Terraform or CloudFormation • Understanding of IAM policies, network segmentation, and VPC design • Thorough grasp of monitoring and logging in cloud-native environments • Ability to identify misconfigurations, mitigate risks, and drive remediation processes • Experience with security automation and integrating security tools into CI/CD pipelines • Experience with SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning • Secure coding and application security mentoring skills • AWS infrastructure security knowledge • Knowledge of container security, POSIX Capabilities, SECCOMP, and Linux Security Modules • Experience with OSQuery and eBPF • Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's coordination hours (Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm Pacific Time) • Successful completion of identity verification and comprehensive background check before onboarding • US applicants: salary range applies to US-based applicants • Canada applicants: salary range applies to Canadian applicants; Toronto and Vancouver have a separate range

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Equity refreshers • Remote work reimbursement • Paid time off • Employee assistance programs • Equity program allowing a portion of equity compensation to be taken as cash in equity-eligible countries • Benefits vary by country • Coordination hours Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm Pacific Time

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