Stack Overflow is one of the most popular websites in the world, focused on increasing productivity and protecting institutional knowledge. They are seeking a Senior Information Security Engineer to lead security initiatives, mentor team members, and contribute to the development of a robust security culture within the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Contribute to security requirements in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale services and platforms
- Conducting security architecture reviews of the application stack, including applications built on cloud and emerging technologies
- Design and develop platform-level solutions to promote security-related initiatives and improvements. - Review source code for potential security issues, recommend and implement fixes
- Providing specific risk assessment and remediation guidelines for developers and business owners - Belief in automation and tooling as a critical part of the software lifecycle
- Document and disseminate security guidelines for common security issues, remediation guidance, and security baselines
- Contribute to SOC2 and ISO 27001/27701 audits as needed
- Work with developers to provide security guidance
- Actively promote improving the security culture and education within the organization
- Eager to learn new technologies and solutions
- Be curious about how systems work and how they fail, design them to be sustainable in the face of failures
Requirements:
- Strong verbal and written communication and documentation skills. 'Document as you go'
- Strong desire to secure systems, define and improve processes
- Familiarity with: Containers, Cloud, Servers, Networking, DNS, and PaaS & SaaS
- Deep technical understanding of the OWASP Top 10
- Experience with Splunk or similar SIEM
- Experience with Nexpose or similar vulnerability scanning tools
- Experience integrating security tools to work as an ecosystem
- Solid experience in threat modeling and identification techniques
- Ability to work with developers to resolve security issues
- Experience in code reviews, vulnerability detection, and root cause analysis
- 25+ years of experience in web application security, secure application design and architecture, threat modeling, secure coding, and cryptography
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Self-motivated and proactive, discovering, and resolving issues before they become problems