Senior Security Engineer

Front powers the heart of business: the meaningful connections between teams and customers that lead to lasting relationships. Bringing email and apps together in a collaborative customer communication platform, Front drives business impact by scaling the natural conversations that create customers for life. More than 6,000 businesses are using Front today to cultivate personalized customer relationships at scale and transform their work into impact.

With $138M in funding, Front is backed by Sequoia Capital, and other leading venture capital firms, as well as independent investors including top executives of Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, and Zoom. Front was recently named to Wealthfront’s Career-Launching Companies in 2021 and Forbes Cloud 100 2020, the definitive list of the top software companies in the world. We have also been recognized on LinkedIn’s 2020 Top Startups, The New York Times’ The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Start-Ups, Fortune’s Best Small Workplaces, and Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work.

We are looking for an experienced security engineer to help build, manage, and scale Front’s security programs.

What will you be doing?

• Own and drive Front’s security roadmap
• Develop and maintain our security compliance and certification programs
• Partner with other teams at Front to constantly improve our defensive model
• Manage our bug bounty program
• Perform security assessments on web applications, mobile clients, and architectural designs
• Implement and maintain intrusion detection, continuous security monitoring and risk assessment for our cloud infrastructure
• Create and maintain secure development practices
• Communicate security risks to stakeholders and engineers

What skills and experience do you need?

• Solid understanding of threat modeling, web security vulnerabilities, as well as their mitigation
• Strong track record of launching and delivering projects of significant complexity and high level of ambiguity
• Experience designing and building highly available, large-scale distributed systems
• Fluency in a dynamic language like Javascript, Python, Ruby, or similar
• Strong understanding of core internet technologies (e.g. TCP/IP)
• Solid understanding of web and mobile application architecture
• Experience with AWS technologies

Front provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.