
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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