Security Engineer (remote)

ProWritingAid’s Vision: Empowering people to share ideas, stories, and knowledge by inspiring, educating, and helping them to express themselves.

ProWritingAid is a remote-first company with team members from over 10 countries around the world. Despite our geographical distance, our team members are always friendly and ready to help each other be the best they can be.

Flexibility is one of our core principles – we know that life happens sometimes. We trust our team to get their work done regardless of location, family schedule, or time zone.

As part of our Development Team, you will work with some of the most talented people in your industry. Working on Language Processing AI offers plenty of scope for breaking new ground. Your projects will require innovation and creativity — not your regular “done that, repeat” stuff.

This is your opportunity to work for a company whose users really appreciate the product. Check out our wall of love to see some examples. We’ve been growing a strong and sustainable company for over seven years now and many of our first users are still customers today.

We are looking for an experienced security engineer to assist on the design and delivery of security best practices for our apps and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Organise, review, and mitigate results from penetration tests and vulnerability assessments of systems and infrastructure
Manage, assess and remediate external threat trends
Develop, document and maintain security procedures
Train developers on best practices
Design, install, configure and support systems including IPS/IDS, Firewalls, VPN, Remote Access
Infrastructure patching and hardening
Ensure audits, logs and other monitoring sources are reviewed periodically and comply with policies and audit requirements
Communicate security metrics to CTO
Security incident response
Research threats and vulnerabilities and where appropriate, take action
Perform security code reviews
Manage bug bounty programme
Complete partner security questionnaires

Experience

You must have:

Excellent English both written and spoken
Experience in IT Security for public facing Websites, Apps and APIs
Demonstrable experience in most or all of the responsibilities listed above

Desirable Experience:

Azure or other Cloud Security
Securing Electron based apps, Browser Extensions, Websites, Databases and APIs
Experience of frameworks and standards, such as: ISO27001, SOC2
Recognised security certifications
Experience working remotely
C#
An interest in writing

Hours of work

Up to 40 hours/week

Please note that we are a fully-remote company so all applicants must be prepared to work independently from their own space.

How to apply

How to apply:

Please send the following to techjobs@prowritingaid.com:

Cover letter Check out our article on how to write an effective cover letter here
Resume
Salary expectations

Deadline December 9th, 2020

ProWritingAid is a bootstrapped, profitable company with over 100% YoY growth. We’re at the forefront of exploration and innovation within the field of natural language processing.

We are a 100% remote team so you can work from the comfort of home, your favorite coffee shop, or anywhere else that makes you happy and productive. With members in more than 10 countries around the world, together, we’re on a mission to empower people to share ideas, stories, and knowledge.

We’re an equal-opportunity employer genuinely committed to building a diverse team, and to fostering the type of inclusive environment in which diversity thrives.

What do we stand for?

Although we are separated by geography, we are bound together by our company vision and values:

ProWritingAid’s Vision

Empowering people to share ideas, stories, and knowledge by inspiring, educating, and helping them to express themselves.

A Love of Language

We are passionate about language and believe that it is an essential component for communicating ideas, stories and knowledge. We believe good ideas are intrinsically entwined with the words used to express them.

Integrity

We place a premium value on integrity and fairness. We do not accept abuse of any kind targeted at or within our team. We take responsibility for our actions, deliver the best work we can, and strive to learn from our mistakes. We always choose the most ethical option.

Community-Driven

We believe that everyone has something to say, and the right to say it well. We are constantly building and improving our software to better serve the needs of our writers.

Accessible and Educational

We believe every writer, regardless of their economic situation or educational background, should have access to our software. To this end, we will always have a free version available and a helpful customer support team to help writers learn to use it. We will encourage learning by providing high-quality educational content on our blog.

Diverse

We strive for diversity and equal opportunity in our team. We are building a team that represents a wealth of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better we will be.

Work/Life Balance

Despite our geographical distance, our team members are always friendly, empathetic and supportive to one another. We fully embrace the idea of flexible working. We trust our team to get their work done regardless of their location, family schedule, or time zone. We celebrate the diversity of our multinational team. We will always offer a helping hand, encourage each other, and show gratitude for a job well done.