Senior Systems Security Engineer (Remote)

Senior Systems Security Engineer (Remote)

Overview:

The Information Security team at Weedmaps works collaboratively throughout the entire organization to align Information Security to the business and enable continued growth. Weedmaps is looking for a Sr Systems Security Engineer to join our expanding team. As a Sr Systems Security Engineer, you would ensure the Security of Weedmaps's products and services by focusing security readiness on our infrastructure, internal systems, and development lifecycle.

The impact you'll make:

• Design and implement multilevel security strategies to protect networks and data resources.
• Plan computer and network security upgrades and test hardware and software related to the upgrade.
• Address technical problems related to applications and production equipment.
• Respond to intrusions using expertise in computer forensics.
• Anticipate future problem areas by monitoring workflows and network traffic patterns.
• Maintaining and creating secure development best practices and programs for our engineering teams
• Identify risks in software architecture, and internal development processes
• Evaluate, analyze, and reproduce security vulnerabilities reported by internal tools, internal engineers, security researchers, partners, and customers. Partner with devops and devsecops teams to ensure they address these vulnerabilities in our products and services
• Institute Security training and outreach to Weedmaps engineering teams
• Provide guidance on relevant application security industry standards and practices such as OWASP, SANS, CWE, CWSS, CVE, CVSS, etc.
• Partner with multiple engineering stakeholders to evangelize security, assist in developing security controls into engineering pipelines, and remediate security issues from internal, and third- party assessments
• Build new tools into our Security program, which includes automation of processes to make security testing more effective and efficient.
• Take part in helping develop the maturity of Weedmaps's security organization
• Assist the Information Security team in gaining industry-recognized certifications such as ISO 27001, SOC, PCI DSS

What you've accomplished:

• You have 7+ years of experience working on a security team performing technical security assessments on modern systems architecture (Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines)
• Strong familiarity with containers and container orchestration/scheduling (eg. Docker, ECS, Rancher, Kubernetes)
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of Agile software development methods and familiarity with enterprise. productivity tools such as JIRA, and Confluence
• Experience instituting organizational change with respect to security
• Effective communicator to multiple audiences both verbally as well as orally
• B.S. in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
• Must have experience in a large web-scale or technology company

Bonus points: 

• Experience and familiarity with NIST, PCI, et. al. frameworks
• Familiarity with Weedmaps products and services is a plus
• Experience with bug bounty programs
• Experience with CDNs such as Fastly, Cloudflare, CloudFront, Akamai

The base pay range for this position is $181,000.00 - $202,000.00

2023 Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

• Medical, Dental & Vision benefits (effective Day 1):
• Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer contribution)
• PTO (3 weeks accrued); 5 sick days
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Family planning/fertility -  including up to $10,000 towards cash-pay services
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution of up to $1,000/year
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and long-term disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance 
• Company-paid identity theft protection
• Legal services platform
• Paid parental leave

Why Weedmaps?

• You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
• You get to play a meaningful role that impacts the wellbeing of others
• Casual work environment, no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
• Generous PTO