Senior Security Engineer - Cloud & Infra (Remote)

Quora; United States; Remote; USD 172,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Remote work reimbursement

Equity refreshers

Paid time off

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Quora is seeking a security engineer to join the newly formed Security Engineering Team, partnering with product and platform teams to design, implement, and operate protections across Quora and Poe, with a focus on cloud infrastructure security and scalable defenses.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering with hands-on cloud security, automation of security processes, and Linux security expertise.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience securing large-scale cloud environments (AWS) and building IaC pipelines (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Automation of security processes and integration of SAST/DAST into CI/CD workflows.
• Strong Linux/system security focus, container security, and OS-level hardening knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to review cloud and compute architecture design changes
• Establish threat models for cloud and compute paved roads to identify security risks
• Develop or adopt open-source tools to monitor and harden our cloud infrastructure, harden our OS, develop security logging pipelines and detect intrusions
• Apply your expert knowledge of security best practices for AWS and Kubernetes to inform remediations and the team's control roadmap
• Drive the definition and implementation of security policies and monitor in conformance to the policies
• Write code for automations that support security requirements like threat detection, incident containment, and network access management.
• Conduct initial incident triage; determine scope, urgency, and potential impact of security incidents; participate in the incident response process

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Security

Automation and Secure Development

Linux/Security

Product Security (nice-to-have)

Job description

Quora is seeking a security engineer to join the newly formed Security Engineering Team, partnering with product and platform teams to design, implement, and operate protections across Quora and Poe, with a focus on cloud infrastructure security and scalable defenses.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering with hands-on cloud security, automation of security processes, and Linux security expertise.