Position: Security Engineer
Company: Sift
Category: Security
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**About the team**

Our team is responsible for building, scaling and managing the distributed systems that ingest, process, store, and make accessible trillions of events about users, transactions, and other entity data we receive from our customers.

We care about things like uptime, high availability, and low latency. Load balancing, auto-scaling, and automation are in our DNA and are what makes it easy for us to keep up with the growth of our business and the growth of our customers.

**What we’re looking for**

As a security engineer at Sift Science, you will be responsible for analyzing, discovering, and addressing the security of Sift’s services & infrastructure, building security automation, quickly reacting to new threat scenarios, and taking whatever steps necessary to advance Sift Science’s security posture.

**What you’ll do:**
- Implement security solutions by leveraging best practices, tools, and organizational collaboration
- Develop, integrate, and deploy security solutions & technologies
- Perform security testing and threat modeling of Sift Science services
- Participate in security design & code reviews
- Act as subject matter expert for security and work with engineers & others outside of engineering
- Partner with members across engineering and beyond to provide input into the security strategy and roadmap
- Assess and liaison with 3rd party services and vendors
- Operationalize security metrics

**What we’re looking for:**
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in implementing security solutions
- Technical understanding of security: network & OS, software (e.g. OWASP Top 10), cryptographic systems, key-management systems,
- Hosted cloud environments GCP, AWS, etc.
- Experience with threat modeling and incident response is a plus.
- Experience with big data that contains PII
- Coding skills to include scripting, unix/linux, terraform and salt skills
- Experience in helping contribute to the compliance programs (SOC2, PCI-DSS, etc), risk assessment and developing privacy & security engineering principles and best practices
- Verbal and written communication skills, for both technical and non-technical audience
- Pragmatism & philosophy of continuous improvement
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience

**A little about us**

Sift is a hyper-growth Series E company that facilitates the largest trust network of online businesses and consumers on the internet.

The Sift Science Trust PlatformTM uses real-time machine learning to accurately predict which users businesses can trust, and which ones they can’t. The upshot? Consumers know which companies they can entrust with their personal and financial information. And businesses can customize each user’s experience based on their trust score — which leads to more revenue, higher conversion rates, and less fraud and abuse.