Security Engineer 🔥
As a security focused engineer at Kensho you are a thoughtful, collaborative, and seasoned technologist who will be working closely with the Infrastructure team to ensure security across a number of systems and web applications. You will help us protect network boundaries, keep systems and network devices against attacks and provide security frameworks and processes to protect confidential data like passwords and client information.
At Kensho, we believe in flexibility-first, and give our employees the opportunity to work from where they feel most productive and engaged (must be in the United States). We also value in-person collaboration, so there may be times when travel to one of our Kensho hubs (NY/DC/MA) may be required for team meetings or company events on a monthly or quarterly basis.
What You'll Do:
- Design and implement security controls and policies across Kensho and provide oversight to ensure compliance
- Analyze and recommend security practices and tools for engineering teams to incorporate into the software development lifecycle
- Knowledge of e2e application frameworks to execute security reviews and uncover vulnerabilities
- Directly interface with customer infosec teams, lawyers, external security researchers as well as internal partners to ensure that Kensho maintains a best-in-class security envelope
- Design and implement policies for third party vendor screening and dependency management
- Implement procedures to respond to and recover from security incidents
- Monitor Kensho’s networks and systems for potential intrusions and investigate anomalous behavior
- Perform static and dynamic vulnerability assessments of applications using commercial and open source tools such as Fortify, Bandit, WebInspect and OWASP Zap
What We Look For:
- Three or more years of experience as a security engineer
- Experience securing modern web applications and distributed data infrastructure in a cross-team setting
- Strong understanding of cryptography and current best practices
- Experience with penetration testing tools, techniques and methodologies and understanding of common vulnerabilities and remediation strategies
- One or more years experience writing code in Python, Javascript, Java, or GoFamiliarity with core networking concepts and standard protocols such as TCP, UDP, and HTTP
- Prior experience working with enterprise security technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, AntiVirus/EDR, or Security Information and Event Management systems
- Ability to apply risk management tools and methodologies
- Experience conducting or facilitating IT security audits
- Familiarity with security models for cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP
How To Really Grab Our Attention:
- Experience securing services and applications running on Kubernetes
- Experience working with Jenkins, Terraform, LinkerD, Vault, or Okta
- Participation in CTFs or bug bounty programs
- Open source project contributions showing innovation and initiative
- Hedge fund or major financial institution trading experience
- Relevant research, publications, and patents