Cloud Security Engineer
Lacework
Other Engineering
United States
Posted on Friday, March 17, 2023
<div class="content-intro"> <div id="6032d9f1bf642" class="component page-object text"> <p>At Lacework, we strive to provide a supportive, collaborative environment where people are empowered to do the best work of their careers.</p> </div> <div id="602ee361e485f" class="component page-object text"> <p>Our team members enjoy solving complex problems, big sky thinking, and obsess over getting the details right. We love what we do and are proud of our work to secure clouds and container environments for thousands of users worldwide.</p> </div> </div><p> <strong>WHY LACEWORK NEEDS YOU</strong> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">The Security team is growing and we need YOU! Our focus is to ensure our systems continue to detect world class attacks as well as to reduce risks in our software and systems. That is to ensure they are designed and implemented in a secure manner. We work collaboratively across the whole company to accomplish these goals and we’re a growing team that’s looking for a smart, experienced, energetic, and a humble security engineer.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">The ideal candidate is an experienced Security Engineer, preferably one that has a track record of analyzing the security posture of cloud environments and implementing preventative controls to improve the security posture of such an environment. This is a great opportunity for someone who is extremely focused, excited and technically adept to make a huge impact. The role will include adding preventative controls and measures into both our corporate and production environments. Additionally you will develop and add security controls into our product, ensuring the highest level of security within our product offerings. You will have a go getter attitude and work across various teams to prioritize and track resolution of identified issues.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">To be successful you will:</span> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Evaluate the security controls of the various cloud provider environments</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Willing and able to automate, automate, automate!</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Find creative solutions to harden our environments against threats</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Develop new security controls into our product offerings</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Improve our logging capabilities, both internally and within the product</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Work with other teams to discover new opportunities to secure our platforms</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Assist with code reviews, evaluate code for security issues and participate in secure code designs.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Build security utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and other Security Engineers to operate at high velocity; and extend that use to other teams in a DevSecOps cultural model.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system security.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Advocate for best-security practices to the entire engineering organization.</span></li> </ul> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Your Professional Profile:</span> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">5+ years of experience in a security engineering role.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Deep knowledge of current threat intelligence and modern attacker exploits.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Deep knowledge of hardening cloud environments</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Deep knowledge of generic platform hardening</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Ability to write code in common languages like Python, Java, Go or Rust.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Good AWS knowledge and hands on experience. Bonus for experience with all three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Good knowledge and experience with network protocols, cryptography, security threats, attack techniques, evasive techniques, detection and prevention methods.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Good knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes and how to secure those environments.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Understanding of real-time threat detection, secrets management, security considerations within build, release, CI/CD and other similar tooling.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Good understanding of database knowledge, with Snowflake experience being highly desirable.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience working remotely across many time zones and cultures.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to target your communication to the audience, whether technical or not.</span></li> </ul> <p></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Salary Range: $119k - $300k USD Annually +<a href="https://www.lacework.com/careers/" target="_blank">Benefits</a>+ Bonus + Equity<br><em>Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, education/training and skill level.</em></span> </p><div class="content-conclusion"> <p>Lacework is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of Lacework to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, political affiliations, marital status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, membership, or non-membership in an employee organization, or on the basis of personal favoritism or other non-merit factors, except where otherwise provided by law</p> </div>
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