Security Engineer  

Freelancer faces newly emerging and constantly evolving threats. As a member of the security team, you play a critical role in detecting and blocking such threats. Our team has the opportunity to work across all areas of security, from enterprise security, to application and infrastructure security, all the way to protecting our marketplaces and platforms from worldwide scams. We also are in the unique position to work across 5 different large scale websites that have their own unique threat models. It is never a dull day in security!

What You’ll Do

• Develop and deploy solutions to internal and external information security challenges.
• Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system security.
• Oversee the implementation, automation, monitoring, and improvement of security controls throughout the organisation.
• Maintain and improve our information security program initiatives.
• Perform security assessments of physical security to complex web applications.
• Proactively find and fix security risks.
• Engage with a wide range of employees and users in challenging situations.
• Maintain awareness of both the external and internal security landscape.

About You

• Security is your passion. You are constantly keeping up to date with new technologies, best practices, security risks, and threat actors.
• Your primary background is in application and infrastructure security with experience in threat modelling, security design reviews, and security architecture.
• You are experienced with an interpreted programming language (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
• You have advanced knowledge of internet networking and services such as DNS and SMTP
• You have an advanced understanding of web technologies such as HTTP, SSL/TLS, HTML, Javascript, etc.
• You are used to working in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, etc), provisioning and configuration tools a plus (puppet, terraform, ansible, etc).
• You are a big fan of open source software, continuous learning, and sharing information.