Mapbox
Security Engineer II
Mapbox US · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$161k-$217kDetected 90 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonNode.jsDynamoDBAWSRESTCybersecurityDetection Engineering
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About the role
- WHAT WE DO Mapbox is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Security & Compliance team.
- You will be responsible for contributing to, operating, and improving all things related to our security and compliance services.
- Team members alternate as the on-call primary responder, which may require immediate response outside normal working hours, including weekends.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Partner with internal product teams to implement a secure-by-default design into their own products.
- Fertility & Family Building: Inclusive fertility support. Grow your family on your terms.
Requirements
- 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.
- In this role, you can expect to:
Skills
- Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses.
- More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform's flexibility, security and privacy compliance.
Compensation
- Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $160,650 - $217,350 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor.
Benefits
- Subject matter expertise in security best practices and the ability to quickly make correct risk assessments that prioritize the overall benefit to the company.
- 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.
- Comprehensive Healthcare: Private medical coverage for you and your dependents.
- Family-First Support: Generous maternity and paternity leave policies to support your growing family.
- Lifestyle Spending Account: Contributions to support your health, wellness, and personal growth.
- Balance & Brainpower: Mental health support for you and your dependents.
- Rest & Recharge: Flexible paid time away, company holidays, and generous absence policies.
- Time Off to Give Back: Dedicated paid volunteering time in addition to your standard PTO.
- Invest & Grow: Retirement plans with competitive matching.
Company info
- Mapbox is looking for a Senior Software 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.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain available to customers 24/7. Team members alternate as the on-call primary responder, which may require immediate response outside normal working hours, including weekends.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization.
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