Senior Corporate Security Engineer

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 290,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As a Senior Corporate Security Engineer at Nextdoor, you will work closely with IT, engineering, product, legal, and audit to protect Nextdoor’s networks, computers, and data by building and managing security solutions in a high growth, hybrid/remote workforce environment utilizing zero trust architecture, Macs (not Windows), and cloud native infrastructure.

The Impact You’ll Make

If you want the challenge of designing and building security solutions for a fast growing business and the satisfaction of seeing your work come to life, this is the place for you.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Design, build, and manage security solutions to protect endpoints, business applications, cloud infrastructure, and identity and access management
• Leverage platforms and APIs to automate tasks, analyze data, and create dashboards
• Perform threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and communicate risk
• Balance the needs of security with a fast moving, agile business
• Participate in security incident response and planning

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• A technical understanding of modern best practices for operating and securing enterprise systems (G-suite, Okta, SAAS apps)
• Experience in authentication, identity & access management, device management systems, access security and/or zero trust solutions
• Experience building tools and services with Python, Golang, or other programming languages
• 5+ years experience in System Engineering, Security Engineering, or IT with coding experience
• Deep technical expertise in at least one security domain such as application, cloud, or endpoint and the ability to communicate attacks, vulnerabilities, and the controls in that domain
• Passion for automation and enabling others

Bonus Points

• Contributed to open-source security automation tools
• Security and/or cloud certifications such as GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), Cloud Security Automation (GCSA), AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, and AWS Security Specialty
• Familiarity with control frameworks such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Center for Internet Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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