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Responsibilities:

  • Helping design, develop, and deliver security features, with safety and security in mind
  • Working with other engineering teams to ensure that they make safe and compliant architectural and implementation choices
  • Leading by example in code review, decision-making, and team culture

Skills and Experience:

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ideally with focus on security or privacy
  • Ability to work effectively in a modern web application
  • Experience in developing secure software or security and privacy-related product features

Additional Skills:

  • Experience working on anti-abuse mechanisms, such as detecting bots or coordinated activity
  • Previous experience building security countermeasures against attacks on technologies at the web, backend, and database level
  • A working knowledge of threat modeling, secure design patterns and privacy by design

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