Senior Software Engineer, App Security

March 2

Muck Rack

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Helping organizations find the right journalists to pitch, report on media coverage and prove the value of their work.

Public Relations • Media Relations • Journalism • Computer Software • PR Software

201 - 500

💰 $180M Series A on 2022-09

Description

• Work on major technical projects with large data volumes • Lead the building of new features • Help shape engineering culture and processes • Perform in-house vulnerability identification, triaging, and remediation • Automate security processes and build alerting and detection mechanisms • Tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Vue, and Webpack

Requirements

• 5+ years total professional experience as an application security engineer • 5+ years experience in penetration testing and vulnerability remediation • Python or significant web experience in a similar framework • Experience in risk analysis and security frameworks • Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data • Experience with MySQL (or Postgres) and/or ElasticSearch • Any combination of the following: experience with Celery, Luigi or Airflow, Kafka, AWS, NLP, data model performance tuning, content extraction, application performance tuning • Interest in journalism, news, media or social media • Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team members • Exhibit a willingness to learn in areas where they have less experience with our tech stack • Take pride in the quality of their code. (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python) • Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys • Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs • Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition

Benefits

• Remote Work, Forever. • Transparent Compensation • Health & Wellness* • PTO and Family Benefits • Personal & Professional Development • Culture of Inclusion • Customer-First *These benefits are specific to US-based employees. In some, but not all, cases we are able to o