PostHog
Security Engineer
PostHog
$231k - $253k
Remote (EMEA)

Security Engineer

Overview

PostHog is looking for a Security Engineer to enhance their security measures and protect customer data.

Job Description

PostHog is an open-source platform that provides developers with tools to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. The company has experienced significant growth and success since its inception during Y Combinator's W20 cohort.

Responsibilities

  • - Plan and build a practical security roadmap that fits our goals and how we work
  • - Review architecture and product designs to bake in security early
  • - Set up and run the next key controls we need – access, encryption, monitoring, etc.
  • - Run assessments like pen tests, vuln scans, and code reviews
  • - Write and maintain lightweight policies and practices that people actually follow
  • - Lead incident response when needed – investigate, contain, and fix
  • - Work with engineers to improve our level of security in how we build and ship products

Required Skills

  • - Hands-on experience building and running security infrastructure
  • - Strong knowledge of app, cloud, and network security
  • - Led or owned security projects or programs before
  • - Self-starter who can set priorities and get stuff done
  • - Good at balancing security with developer experience
  • - Comfortable using open-source tools to solve security problems
  • - Big on automation and reducing manual steps
  • - Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure – we''re on AWS)

Benefits

  • - Generous, transparent compensation & equity
  • - Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
  • - Two meeting-free days per week
  • - Home office Coworking credit
  • - Private health, dental, and vision insurance
  • - Training budget
  • - Access to our Hedge House
  • - Carbon offsetting
  • - Pension & 401k contributions
  • - Company offsites

About the company

PostHog started as open source product analytics. We've grown into a product & data toolkit, used by 70,000+ teams. We launched on Hacker News with our MVP – just 4 weeks after we started writing code. The response was overwhelmingly positive. We had over 300 deployments in a couple of days. 2 weeks later, we'd gone past 1,500 stars on GitHub.


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