Security Engineer

Patreon is a media and community platform for creators and their fans. The Security Engineer will reduce security risks and protect the security, privacy, and trust of Patreon creators and fans through proactive and reactive security work, code contributions, and incident response.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll split your time between contributing to security projects and responding to security investigations, vulnerabilities, or questions
• The work spans application security, infrastructure security, and internal/corporate security
• It includes both proactive and reactive security work
• You’ll be part of an on-call rotation and help respond to security incidents and investigations
• You’ll write code – both to support security work and to improve the security of the Patreon platform
• You’ll work closely with other members of the security team, the wider Risk engineering org, and cross functional partners in engineering, legal, and IT
• Your work will help reduce known risks and will protect the security, privacy, and trust of Patreon creators and their fans

Requirements:

• You have two or more years of experience reducing security risks in the application, infrastructure, or corporate security spaces
• You can create a threat model and to explain why a given risk matters and what we might do to reduce it
• You have deeper knowledge (three or more years) in at least one security or security-adjacent domain (infrastructure security, application security, cloud security, corporate/IT security, cryptography, privacy, etc.)
• You can develop software (Python, Rust, Golang, or a similar language)
• You have experience working in a modern software development environment (git, CI/CD, LLM coding tools, etc.)
• You have experience using AI tools (LLMs, ML models, etc) to identify and address security issues (software vulnerabilities, detection and response, etc.)
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent
• Experience working on large scale Internet platforms that allow users to upload content
• Past contributions to large scale, production code bases
• Experience responding to security incidents, investigating incident impact, and building out incident mitigations