Security Engineer Partner

Details

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Responsibilities

As a Security Engineer for X, you will play a critical role in ensuring the security and integrity of our systems and infrastructure. You will partner cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to develop and implement security strategies, policies, and procedures that protect X. Your responsibilities include:

• Act as a primary POC between the Product/Engineering teams and the X Security team.
• Threat model and identify potential risks in designs, configuration, code, or deployed systems along with designing and implementing mitigation options.
• Perform secure design reviews to identify potential risks in designs, code, or in deployed applications.
• Remediate security vulnerabilities identified through scans and assessments, including developing security fixes.
• Identify the trade-offs necessary between security and engineering velocity.
• Use data to drive identification of risk areas and solutions and drive infrastructure directions and solutions in collaboration with other teams.
• Represent the Infosec Organization in Product Strategy and development.

Requirements

You care about security and building a secure environment for the people using X every day. You are curious, comfortable digging into the details, have experience with the tools of the trade, and are eager to help others protect our systems. Ideally, you have many of the following (but need not have all):

• 2+ years of relevant experience (other jobs, grad school, etc) in information security including topics such as security engineering, threat modeling, vulnerability management, pentesting, or security research.
• Experience with finding and fixing security design flaws and implementation bugs.
• Experience building tools and processes to reliably identify security issues and logic flaws across large code bases.
• Knowledge of at least one of the following languages: Scala (preferred), Go, Python, or Java.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $127,000 USD - $200,000 USD + Equity