[Hiring] Security Engineer II @Mapbox

Role Description

Mapbox is looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join our Security & Compliance team. As a member of our diverse and globally distributed team, you’ll help all Mapbox engineers build secure-by-default systems. Engineers on the Security & Compliance team build scanning and threat detection systems to monitor Mapbox’s cloud deployment (AWS-native, mainly container-based, 7 global regions including China) and other digital assets. They conduct risk assessments of new vendor integrations and product launches, and facilitate a bug bounty program that leverages the diverse expertise of a global community of security researchers. Lastly, they build and maintain core standards around security, quality, and privacy—reflected in our compliance certifications—and the automation to monitor and enforce these standards across Mapbox.

What You'll Do

• Conduct AWS security reviews (deep dive into our AWS environment to validate security best practices are being followed).
• Make security improvements recommendations and work with our production support teams to implement security improvement in AWS.
• Partner with the Lead Security Architect in fixing custom-built security tools bots.
• Conduct in-depth security reviews of application code, working closely with developers to code securely from the outset and address issues early during coding and testing phases.
• Partner with internal product teams to implement a secure-by-default design into their own products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or similar.
• 5+ years of experience in product or application security and related software engineering roles.
• Experience with AWS services like GuardDuty, CloudTrail log review, IAM, Security Groups, CloudFront, CloudFormation, S3, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB and RDS.
• Proficiency in a programming language (e.g. Python, JavaScript or Node.js or TypeScript), testing practices, and documentation.
• Subject matter expertise in security best practices and the ability to quickly make correct risk assessments that prioritize the overall benefit to the company.

What We Value

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

Compensation

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $161,500 - $218,500 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Additional Information

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• Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization.
• We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.