Security Engineer

About the position

Foursquare is looking for a Security Engineer to join our team located in or near one of our office hubs - New York City, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco. As part of the Security Team, your work will be instrumental in safeguarding our customer and user data and will directly contribute to Foursquare's business success. You'll help to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, participate in design and implementation of best practices for our applications and AWS infrastructure, and build or integrate tools to provide awareness of security-related events and controls.

Responsibilities

• Build security tooling and automation to integrate security earlier in the software development lifecycle, ensuring both preventative and detective measures are in place to manage threats
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align security controls with industry-standard compliance requirements (e.g. ISO, NIST, SOC2)
• Provide security expertise across our entire tech stack in the form of design reviews and threat modeling
• Respond to security events, including isolating, mitigating, and investigating active threats
• Establish and promote security recommendations and best practices, as well as perform research and provide security insight.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (such as other Engineering disciplines)
• 2+ years of experience in security engineering or DevSecOps, with a focus on AWS and infrastructure security
• Proficient in building tools and automation in Python, including testing, documentation, and deployment
• Experience with deploying in Kubernetes (EKS preferred); experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) is a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Your own unique talents! If you don't meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we encourage and welcome you to still apply!

Benefits

• Flexible PTO - rest and recharge when you need it!
• Industry Leading Healthcare - comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
• Savings and Investments - 401(k) with company match
• Equipment Setup - you will receive all necessary hardware for your job function
• Family Planning and Fertility Programs - programs via Carrot
• Employee Resource Groups - to help you stay connected
• Hybrid Work Schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays