Corporate Security Engineer

"The front page of the internet,” Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. Come for the cats, stay for the empathy.

The Reddit Security team is rapidly developing, and this is an opportunity to get in and have an outsized impact on a highly skilled and motivated team. We look for humble experts with a relentlessly resourceful and entrepreneurial “can do” view of security. We want to deliver facts and not FUD to the business to enable Reddit to manage risk more effectively. Culture is important to us and a learning and developing mentality is vital regardless of the work assigned. 

If you work tirelessly to break into computer networks and just as tirelessly to ensure others cannot, we need you. The ideal candidate will work to modernize Reddit’s security controls and monitoring across our endpoint environment and SaaS platforms. This position will be a core role within the Corporate Security team at Reddit. Current focus of Corporate security is to improve the Endpoint Security posture and detection capabilities, reduce insider threat risk, and security posture of SaaS/Third party applications. This role will collaborate closely with IT to improve IT security posture.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Develop, enhance, and implement endpoint detection and response rules and tooling for endpoint devices

Collaborate cross-functionally with our IT team in implementing security best practices for SaaS and endpoint environments and support security initiatives like 2-factor authentication, automated encryption of client devices, DLP, etc.

Build tools and processes for automating security controls and monitoring at scale

Support security initiatives across the organization and harden our infrastructure against attack

Recommend endpoint and SaaS mitigations and controls based on generated telemetry

Provide recommendations and support for insider threat programs

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience in IT security or building endpoint security solutions

2+ years endpoint administration or support experience with MacOS, Windows, and Linux devices

Experience with executing endpoint hardening initiatives based on a common framework 

Experience with mobile device management technologies

Experience with content filtering and classification and categorization concepts

Experience with Crowdstrike, JAMF, Workspace One, and similar technologies

Experience with DLP and Insider Threat concepts and mitigations

Experience with implementing and operating forensics capabilities for an international remote-enabled workforce

Ability to communicate effectively with business representatives in explaining security topics clearly and where necessary, in layperson's terms

Ability to code in Python and shell scripts

Familiarity with public cloud (AWS, GCP) and associated concepts

Experience with threat and vulnerability management and remediation processes

What You Can Expect From Us:

Competitive Healthcare Benefits Package

Quarterly Dependent Care or Pet Care Stipend

Family Expansion Benefits

4 Months Parental Leave with Flexible Return-To-Work Programming

Professional & Personal Development Stipends

Unlimited Vacation, Annual Travel Stipend, and 10 Paid Holidays

Onsite Wellness Classes and Wellness Stipend

401k Plan with Employer Contributions

Monthly Commuter Stipend

Monthly Cell Phone Allowance

Paid Volunteer Days, plus Reddit For Good Volunteer Opportunities

Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to InfoSec and Engineer jobs that are similar:

$80,000 — $130,000/year

Location

San Francisco, California, United States