Scribd
Staff Cloud Security Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+ · Contract
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PythonGoAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySIEMLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
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About the role
- Our Security Engineering team protects Scribd's applications and cloud infrastructure.
- We take a proactive, shift-left approach, integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle, from development through production.
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role.
Responsibilities
- Drive security architecture and guardrails for cloud workloads, including Kubernetes, secure base images, workload identity, runtime protection, and isolation of services processing untrusted content, with an emphasis on limiting the impact of compromise.
- Partner with our Infrastructure teams to secure cloud deployment paths, workload identities, registries, and the infrastructure supporting CI/CD.
- Build reusable security capabilities and paved paths, including Terraform modules and policy-as-code guardrails, that make secure configurations the default and prevent noncompliant infrastructure changes before deployment.
- Validate cloud security controls through threat hunting and attack-path analysis, contribute technical expertise during incidents, and partner with infrastructure teams on containment and recovery architecture, translating incident learnings into durable improvements.
- Drive Cloud Security strategy and technical direction
- Shape and drive the Cloud Security technical roadmap alongside the Security Engineering manager and engineers in the domain, using threat models, incidents, and control effectiveness to prioritize systemic risks while balancing security outcomes with engineering friction.
- Lead complex technical initiatives, establish and evolve security standards, and influence their adoption across engineering teams.
- We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply, and believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas.
- Come join us in building something meaningful.
Requirements
- Our four products - Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable - help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.
Compensation
- At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Mental health support and disability coverage
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits
- Retirement matching and employee equity
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
- Wellness and home office stipends
- Define and improve secrets management, data protection, and encryption standards, ensuring security controls are effective and their coverage can be demonstrated.
- Define cloud telemetry requirements and improve detection coverage for cloud-native threats in partnership with Detection & Response.
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
Company info
- We work closely with software engineers, infrastructure and platform teams, and product teams to identify and address security risks, build effective security controls, and enable engineering teams to move securely.
- As a Staff Cloud Security Engineer, you'll help shape the technical direction of Cloud Security and drive complex architectural investments across our AWS and GCP environments.
- You'll work closely with engineers already building our cloud security capabilities to strengthen our identity model, establish secure-by-default guardrails, and protect the workloads our applications run on.
- You'll lead significant initiatives, build security capabilities, and influence engineering teams to adopt them, balancing long-term architectural improvements with the most pressing security risks.
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