Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security

You will be a key member of the newly created Security Engineering Team, with a mission to keep Quora safe from security problems by building robust protections around our products, infrastructure and people. Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas.

- Partner with engineering teams to review cloud and compute architecture design changes

- Establish threat models for cloud and compute paved roads to identify security risks

- Develop or adopt open-source tools to monitor and harden our cloud Infrastructure, harden our OS, develop security logging pipelines and detect intrusions

- Apply your expert knowledge of security best practices for AWS and Kubernetes to inform remediations and the team's control roadmap

- Drive the definition and implementation of security policies and monitor in conformance to the policies

- Write code for automations that support security requirements like threat detection, incident containment, and network access management.

- Conduct initial incident triage; determine scope, urgency, and potential impact of security incidents; participate in the incident response process

At Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.

- Sweat The Right Details: you thrive in understanding the details but will also know to ruthlessly prioritize the critical issues.

- Right-Size The Solution: you recognize guidelines and framework do not always fit the problem and know how to adjust the solution for scalability not always at-scale.