Platform Security Engineer
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About the Role
The employer is seeking an experienced Platform Security Engineer to protect large-scale digital products. The role involves strengthening platform defenses, leading security initiatives, and improving incident response capabilities.
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Responsibilities
- Strengthen and maintain perimeter and network security controls, including web application firewalls (WAF), rate limiting, anti bot protections, and DDoS mitigation strategies.
- Secure APIs against abuse, malicious traffic, and common vulnerabilities while improving authentication, authorization, and access control mechanisms.
- Lead the vulnerability management lifecycle by identifying, prioritizing, tracking, and validating remediation of security issues.
- Coordinate external penetration testing engagements and ensure timely resolution of identified findings.
- Drive incident response activities for product security events and collaborate with monitoring teams to improve detection and response capabilities.
- Partner with cross functional teams on fraud prevention, trust and safety initiatives, and customer data protection through encryption, masking, and secure access controls.
- Promote secure development practices by managing Security Champions and Bug Bounty programs while increasing security awareness across engineering teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in information security, including a minimum of 3 years focused on product security.
- Hands on expertise managing Web Application Firewalls such as Wallarm, Akamai, or Cloudflare.
- Strong understanding of API security principles, including the OWASP API Security Top 10 and API gateway technologies.
- Experience implementing anti bot solutions using behavioral analysis and fingerprinting techniques.
- Practical knowledge of DDoS protection across Layers 3 7 and modern network defense strategies.
- Experience managing vulnerability management programs, including CVSS scoring, remediation prioritization, and service level tracking.
- Familiarity with coordinating penetration testing engagements and interpreting security assessment reports.
- Solid understanding of OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, session management, and modern authentication frameworks.
- Working knowledge of SQL and Elasticsearch for security investigations, log analysis, monitoring, and reporting.
- Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and problem solving skills with the ability to work effectively across distributed engineering teams.
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Role Overview
- As a Platform Security Engineer, you will play a key role in protecting large scale digital products used by a global audience.
- Working across engineering, infrastructure, and security teams, you will strengthen platform defenses, safeguard customer data, and proactively address emerging threats.
- This position offers the opportunity to lead critical security initiatives, influence secure development practices, and improve incident response capabilities.
Accountabilities
- Strengthen and maintain perimeter and network security controls, including web application firewalls (WAF), rate limiting, anti bot protections, and DDoS mitigation strategies.
- Secure APIs against abuse, malicious traffic, and common vulnerabilities while improving authentication, authorization, and access control mechanisms.
- Lead the vulnerability management lifecycle by identifying, prioritizing, tracking, and validating remediation of security issues.
- Coordinate external penetration testing engagements and ensure timely resolution of identified findings.
- Drive incident response activities for product security events and collaborate with monitoring teams to improve detection and response capabilities.
- Partner with cross functional teams on fraud prevention, trust and safety initiatives, and customer data protection through encryption, masking, and secure access controls.
- Promote secure development practices by managing Security Champions and Bug Bounty programs while increasing security awareness across engineering teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in information security, including a minimum of 3 years focused on product security.
- Hands on expertise managing Web Application Firewalls such as Wallarm, Akamai, or Cloudflare.
- Strong understanding of API security principles, including the OWASP API Security Top 10 and API gateway technologies.
- Experience implementing anti bot solutions using behavioral analysis and fingerprinting techniques.
- Practical knowledge of DDoS protection across Layers 3 7 and modern network defense strategies.
- Experience managing vulnerability management programs, including CVSS scoring, remediation prioritization, and service level tracking.
- Familiarity with coordinating penetration testing engagements and interpreting security assessment reports.
- Solid understanding of OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, session management, and modern authentication frameworks.
- Working knowledge of SQL and Elasticsearch for security investigations, log analysis, monitoring, and reporting.
- Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and problem solving skills with the ability to work effectively across distributed engineering teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, with salary details shared during the recruitment process.
- Flexible full time working arrangement.
- 28 days of annual paid vacation.
- 7 additional wellness days each year for personal wellbeing and recovery.
- Employee referral bonuses of up to $5,000 for successful hires.
- Reimbursement covering 50% of approved professional training, conferences, and industry events.
- Corporate discounts for English language courses.
- Health benefit reimbursement of up to $1,000 gross per year for eligible medical expenses or private health insurance.
- Home office and workspace support, including equipment or reimbursement of up to $1,000 gross every three years for remote workspace setup.
- Internal employee recognition program with redeemable rewards, merchandise, wellness experiences, and team building activities.
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