Platform Security Engineer

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The Opportunity
To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Security Engineer to join our Platform Security team. Our commitment to user trust is unwavering, and this new team member will play a crucial role in maintaining the trust of millions of users who rely on our products. With their expertise, we can implement security enhancements throughout the back-end and underlying infrastructure to address potential threats.
Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.
As a Security Engineer in Platform Security, you will: Develop and implement security processes to identify, evaluate, and mitigate security risks in our cloud infrastructure.
Partner with Cloud Infra, Data, and Product Engineering teams to define and drive secure-by-default environments supporting product needs.
Experiment with and develop AI-based tools to enable the Security team to move even faster.
Define and monitor impactful metrics to guide the platform security program forward.
Educate and mentor team members and developers on security best practices.
Collaborate and build trust with different stakeholders to advise them on matters of security. Qualifications
Has 6+ years of experience securing cloud infrastructure at scale in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Proven experience automating secure infrastructure using Terraform (or similar IaC tooling).
Experience with CI/CD infrastructure, containerization (Docker, K8s), and an understanding of the associated risks.
Understanding of zero-trust and IAM principles for both human and non-human identities.
Familiarity with software engineering or scripting in languages like Python, Java, or Go.
The ability to think like an adversary to identify risk, and then build like an engineer to mitigate those risks.
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks.
Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust. Compensation and Benefits
Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
Disability and life insurance options
401(k) and RRSP matching
Paid parental leave
20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
Annual professional development budget and opportunities Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.
Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.
United States: Zone 1: $214,000 – $310,000/year (USD)
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Location:
San Francisco

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