Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Competitive Base Salary
- Generous paid vacation
- Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
- Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Home Internet stipend
- Professional allocation for your growth and development
- One-timeallowance to assist with your home office setup
- Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive
Company Overview
Stack Overflow is a platform for developers and programmers to share knowledge and solve coding challenges. It is a sub-organization of Prosus. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.stackoverflow.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Stack Overflow has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.