Information Security Specialist

Filetwigbay; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 92,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Snapchat seeks an Information Security Specialist in Philadelphia for a contract role to advance our security program. You bring 5 years of hands-on experience building resilient, scalable protections for our platform.

You'll translate compliance rules into ISO 27001 guardrails, respond to incidents, and craft tooling that speeds engineers. The position offers flexible scheduling and a structured plan to deepen ISO 27001 expertise.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in information security or related field.
• Experience translating compliance rules into actionable build guardrails.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001 and security governance.

Responsibilities

• Ship incremental security improvements for Snapchat's Philadelphia platform.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Build tooling to accelerate security work for engineers in Philadelphia.
• Translate technology compliance rules into ISO 27001 guardrails baked into the build.
• Replace brittle security hacks with scalable solutions for Philadelphia.

Skills

Adaptability

Resilience

Communication

Storytelling

Job description

Snapchat builds innovative products used by teams worldwide, and we need an Information Security Specialist to push our platform to the next level. For the scrappy Information Security Specialist with 5 years, Snapchat answers with $92,000 - $128,000, a contract setup, and a ladder built for climbing.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship incremental improvements to Snapchat's Philadelphia platform on a regular cadence
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Build the CISM tooling that makes every other Philadelphia engineer faster
• Translate technology compliance rules into ISO 27001 guardrails baked into the build
• Replace the brittle AWS Security hack with a Collaboration solution that survives Philadelphia scale

What You'll Bring

• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
• A Snapchat mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow

Snapchat builds the unglamorous technology plumbing that Philadelphia, PA relies on, and it does so with team-oriented pride. New hires ship something real in week one, because we'd rather you learn by doing.

This contract role pays $92,000 - $128,000 and includes flexible scheduling plus a structured plan to grow your ISO 27001 expertise.

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