Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security

Quora; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Quora, a remote-first company, is seeking a security engineer to join the newly created Security Engineering Team. You will help keep Quora and Poe safe by building protections around products, infrastructure, and people.

The ideal candidate blends hands-on cloud security with automation and secure development practices, and thrives in a culture that values learning and experimentation. This role offers the flexibility to work remotely from the US or Canada while tackling challenging security

Qualifications

• Experience securing large-scale cloud environments.
• Proficiency with IaC pipelines and secure deployments.
• Ability to prioritize critical issues and communicate vision.

Responsibilities

• Protect Quora and Poe products by building robust security controls.
• Collaborate with software and platform teams to implement secure architectures.
• Automate security tests and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Security

Security as Code

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

IAM

Kubernetes Security

Job description

[Quora is a privately held, \"remote-first\" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]

About Quora

Quora’s mission is to grow the world’s collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:

Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with millions of monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.

Poe: a cloud workspace where millions of users run multiple AI agents on shared context and tools. One subscription, every frontier model, and the collaboration layer that makes them work together.

Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.

This role will be supporting both our Quora and Poe products.

About the Team and Role

You will be a key member of the newly created Security Engineering Team, with a mission to keep Quora safe from security problems by building robust protections around our products, infrastructure and people. Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that’s rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas.

What We’re Looking For

• Sweat The Right Details: you thrive in understanding the details but will also know to ruthlessly prioritize the critical issues.
• Right-Size The Solution: you recognize guidelines and framework do not always fit the problem and know how to adjust the solution for scalability not always at-scale.
• Ownership: you are outcome focused and can deftly navigate obstacles, decompose complexities, manage your time and can communicate your vision to peers and management.

An Ideal Candidate Would...

be a capable software engineer while also spiking in at least one of the following domain expertise:

• Cloud Infrastructure Security: You have hands‑on experience securing large-scale cloud environments, particularly with AWS. You are passionate about building secure infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) pipelines using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation. You understand IAM policies, network segmentation, and VPC design and have a thorough grasp of monitoring and logging in cloud‑native environments. You are skilled in identifying misconfigurations, mitigating risks, and driving remediation processes. Bonus points if you’ve implemented security in Kubernetes clusters or serverless architectures.
• Automation and Secure Development Practices: You believe in \"security as code\" and are skilled at automating sec