Kipsu - Minneapolis, MN
posted about 12 hours ago
About the position
Kipsu is rooted in a simple, yet profound goal: To elevate service professionals to the center of the customer experience, transforming transactional interactions into fully-developed relationships. As one of the Twin Cities' leading tech companies, Kipsu has cultivated a reputation for strong company culture, providing exemplary service to its customer partners, and investing in the growth of their team members. Kipsu was recognized by Star Tribune as a top small company workplace for 2021. This role is crucial to the significant, sustainable growth and continued global expansion forecasted for Kipsu's near future. You'll join a team of twenty-five Software Engineers who are passionate about technology, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Our team has a long history of interest and enthusiasm around cybersecurity, and our Security Working Group meets regularly to discuss the latest threats and trends, monitor our security posture, curate our backlog of security improvements, and further our collective expertise in the area. As an extension of continued investment in the security of our platform, we want you to join our team as a dedicated Security Software Engineer to participate in this important part of our organization. You will be welcomed in an environment where you will learn, mentor others, and challenge yourself while being empowered to make a meaningful impact on a team that respects and values security as a first-class component of our platform.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with other engineers regularly to discover, research, and plan potential changes to our code, infrastructure, configuration, and overall architecture.
- Make changes to code in our core platform, applications, and microservices in order to drive security improvements.
- Drive selection of technologies, libraries, and third-party vendors, and participate in far-reaching decisions affecting our systems.
- Contribute to the selection, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of observability tools to continuously assess security threats and find areas for improvement.
- Advocate for and implement changes to best practices and processes across our development team.
- Review design documents and pull requests to advise other Software Engineers on how to improve security in their work.
- Be a champion of security and foster a culture of enthusiasm for cybersecurity.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Computer Science or related course history, with additional experience, training, or certification related to information security preferred
- A strong enthusiasm for cybersecurity and a desire to stay up to date in the field, maintaining an awareness of new advances, threats, and other trends in the space
- Knowledge of security principles in networking, cloud computing, and web application development
- Experience building and hosting web applications, preferably designing or influencing architecture
- Experience utilizing AWS (or other cloud platforms), Docker, Linux and, ideally, DevOps tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- A bias for action to jump on whatever needs to get done and a consistent track record in hitting deadlines
- A curiosity or fascination with how technology works 'under the hood' and a desire to care for and continuously improve systems over time
- Persistence in reaching your goals, even when you've run into some obstacles along the way
Benefits
- Unity - Everyone here is committed to the same mission.
- Transparency - Our leadership gets into the details.
- Trust - Our team members are given the trust and license to excel at their jobs.
- Mentorship - We all have more to learn and something to teach.
- Respect - Our success and future as an industry leader depend on actionable commitment to cultivating a diverse and equitable team.
- Purpose - Everyone here is closely connected to the result of their work.
