65 applicants

Company

Slack · 1 week ago

Staff Software Engineer, Security

Urbana-Champaign Area

Full-time

Remote

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Responsibilities

Writing go to contribute to Nebula , Slack’s mesh overlay software defined network

Detect threats and help Slack be more secure

Creatively scale and operate the infrastructure and tools that handle millions of events per second

Respond in our on-call rotation to fix services we run and investigate potential threats

Identify and develop new features and a roadmap to augment existing tools to protect Slack’s production infrastructure and to help make our business lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive, and more secure

Qualification

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GolangSecurity EngineeringIncident ResponseAWSElasticsearchPythonKubernetesZeroTrustSecrets Management

Required

Significant software engineering experience is a requirement

Curiosity and creativity. You want to know why something happened, not just that it happened.

A desire to empower your coworkers. This is a role afforded the latitude to define workstreams, and entrusted to approach engineering problems as an art form.

Motivation to solve problems, not to patch over quick fixes.

Eagerness to collaborate across the company.

Broad exposure to various security disciplines and deep understanding of models and reasons behind core security concepts such as MFA, ZeroTrust, and securely managing secrets or tokens.

Preferred

AWS — We run almost everything here, so existing proficiency is a plus, but we can teach you if you’re more comfortable with another provider

Elasticsearch / Kibana — you can readily access information and love metrics

Company

Slack

Glassdoor

4.0

Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.

Founded in 2009

San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.slack.com

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