Infrastructure Security Engineer - Remote Friendly

About the role

As an Infrastructure Security Engineer in Unit21,  you will bring your technical expertise to develop, own, manage, and improve the application security controls that protect our products, services, and data. This role blends security leadership, engineering and analytical skills. We want you to help design, specify, deploy and operate the solutions that protect our products from attack as well as detect and respond to alerts warning of possible anomalous behavior or vulnerabilities in our systems. You will be responsible for working with product and engineering teams to integrate application security monitoring into their flows and processes, as well as baking security reviews into our product development lifecycle.

Technical Fluency - Significant experience on an internal security team, or building security products.

A passion for security and technology, and familiarity with Python.

Advisory Skills - Giving direction, advice and support that helps grow the technical and collaboration skills of the individuals and teams with which they engage.

Execution - Planning, coordination, managing dependencies and risks, diving deep when issues arise.

What you'll be doing:

• Partnering with engineering teams to design, build, select and implement effective security controls to detect and alert on security events 
• Design, architect, and implement defensive security controls across endpoints (MacOS, Windows), servers (Linux), and SAAS/self-hosted applications.
• Provide security domain expertise on protective controls, to include system, network, encryption, and authentication services.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve security for identity access and management (IAM), device management, and public cloud service providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure).
• Identifying gaps in coverage of the Unit21 security controls and working across teams to specify and deploy improvements that address these gaps.
• Managing the external firms that conduct security and privacy related compliance assessments (SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA) on our company.
• Writing code where needed to deploy new security, privacy, and access control capabilities.
• Providing security subject matter expertise and training to teams across the company.

What we're looking for:

• 1-3 years of experience in security 
• Experience with public cloud service providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure).
• Experience creating, implementing, and managing technical information security controls including developing security incident response processes and teams.
• Demonstrated history of successful cross-organizational efforts.
• Ability to drive large, complex programs and solutions using both direct and virtual teams

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Unit21 is an equal opportunity employer, we encourage all to apply, even if you do not meet each requirement above. We are building a diverse, inclusive workforce and hope you will join us!

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary and pre-IPO stock options
• 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision insurance (for employee)
• Optional HSA and FSA medical reimbursement accounts
• Unlimited paid time off
• Leave programs for life events
• 401(k)
• Great office space in the San Francisco Financial District
• Fully stocked kitchen
• Commuter benefits
• Weekly meal stipend
• Happy hours and team-building events
• A great company culture with a strong emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion

About Unit21

Unit21 protects businesses against adversaries engaging in money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks by offering a no-code toolset to model, detect, and remediate suspicious activity. Our customers range from large Fortune 500 companies to high-potential, pre-launch startups. In 2020, customers uncovered over $80m in laundered money using our software.

We are an early-stage startup, well-funded by Google and other leading VCs, and growing rapidly. Our team believes deeply in fostering individual ownership, iterative product development, and empathetic communication. There are many challenging problems to solve in this industry, and a huge opportunity for our software to empower companies to define a new method of dealing with suspicious activity on their platforms.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Unit21 is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.