We’re Hiring a Humbly Assured Senior Safety Engineer

About Us and Why We’re Hiring

We construct “You Want a Finances,” one of the best budgeting software program and academic assets round. (These within the know name us YNAB, which is pronounced “why-nab.”) For greater than a decade, folks have been shopping for YNAB after which telling their associates what a distinction it has made of their lives. Google us, or learn a few of our critiques on the app retailer, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous optimistic affect on folks’s lives.

We’ve taken the stance that it’s greatest to make safe practices and decisions a sensible a part of our firm tradition from day one. Consequently, now we have various applications and practices in place that we’re pleased with, and you may examine a few of our public-facing ones in our safety coverage. However safety is a journey, and though now we have loads of individuals who get obsessive about safety, we’re on the level in our journey the place we would like somebody who will get to obsess about safety all day, on daily basis. And that’s the place you, our new safety engineer, are available. You like serving to these round you make good selections round safety and are skilled in serving to construct belief and comprehension round greatest practices. You’re a crucial thinker with an open thoughts, you cause/debate with empathy, have sturdy communication abilities, and have deep respect for the facility of collaboration.

We’ve one overarching requirement with regards to becoming a member of our workforce: our Core Worth Manifesto has to essentially click on with you. If you happen to’re nodding emphatically whereas studying this, you’ll in all probability prefer it right here, and we are able to’t wait to attach with you!

After all, now we have some agency* necessities too, like 5 years of expertise concerned in constructing software program, with a minimum of 3 years devoted to a security-focused position.

*Nicely, firm-ish. If you recognize you’re an important match for this position however fall slightly in need of the five-year requirement, we encourage you to go forward and apply. We don’t want you to be the proper candidate on paper.

On an analogous be aware, we all know impostor syndrome could be a highly effective drive and will discourage incredible folks from making use of. Please apply anyway. Many people right here have it too, so that you’re in good firm.

Okay, let’s speak about life at YNAB, after which we’ll go into element about what we’re in search of.

Who You’d Be Working With

You’ll naturally work with engineers, however you’ll additionally often work with everybody in our cross-functional product groups: Designers, Product Managers, and Buyer Assist. And since your safety suggestions will usually apply to how we work internally, you’ll work with staff in advertising, training, and operations too.

All of our staff have one factor in widespread: They’re a pleasure to work with. You received’t discover heated arguments and raised voices right here. We save our aggressive spirit for YNAB’s exterior rivals (or the occasional spirited board/online game session), however internally we construct up our teammates and have a good time their successes.

We’re all keenly conscious of our work’s affect on prospects and the corporate, and we acknowledge safety and privateness are a vital a part of each position, no matter title.

So, safety isn’t a tough promote round right here. All of us work and sleep slightly bit higher once we know methods to architect a system that’s safe by design, and once we know that an errant click on on that attachment isn’t going to destroy the corporate.

And when one in every of us does make a safety mistake, we’ll admit it as a result of we blame defective processes, not folks.

How You’ll Work at YNAB

We additionally work actually laborious, collectively, to make working at YNAB a tremendous expertise, and we had been (humbly) proud to be named Fortune’s #1 Greatest Small Firm to Work For the final two years. We’ve a workforce of actually distinctive folks—the type you’ll be excited to work with. Right here’s how we function:

Accountability and Empowerment

YNAB appreciates, respects, and trusts the experience and judgment of our engineers. We empower them to do what they suppose is true.

We additionally work collaboratively. We constantly search the correct quantity of construction and unity mandatory to maximise productiveness. The place it is sensible, we designate somebody to make a name.

Despite the fact that our persons are proper quite a bit, it’s okay to make errors right here. Exploration and calculated dangers are important to velocity and development. We freely admit once we’re incorrect. If one thing doesn’t go as anticipated, we study, bounce again, and make corrections.

You received’t be alone; others will likely be there to assist, evaluate, reassure, and again you up. We personal our processes and collective outcomes as a workforce.

Stay (Nearly) Wherever You Need

We’ve all the time been a completely distant workforce, and have folks everywhere in the world. For this position, you’ll should be situated someplace between the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and the Central European Time Zone (UTC+1). As an illustration, North America and most of Europe work nicely. Wherever you might be, simply be sure to have a dependable web connection.

No Outrageous Hours

We wish everybody to have a full life outdoors of YNAB, and we seldom work greater than 40 hours per week. There have been a couple of events the place issues obtained busy and other people needed to put some further time in. However then they took some further time without work, so all of it balances out. We work laborious and good, however we’re on this for the lengthy haul.

Take Trip (Significantly)

We wish you to take trip. The truth is, now we have a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per 12 months. 5 weeks feels about proper (plus two further weeks for our company-wide December break). It’s essential to get loads of downtime and get out and do one thing. We’ll look ahead to seeing footage of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel.

The YNAB Retreat

When the pandemic isn’t preserving us from touring, we get the entire workforce collectively yearly to compensate for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Greatest Western convention room. Simply kidding. To date, we’ve achieved Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seashore home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, and most just lately, Laguna Seashore. We do actually enjoyable issues at these retreats, however the spotlight is inevitably simply being collectively and having a blast.

Up Your Recreation

We’re critical about serving to you enhance your craft. We funds for it (hey-o!). Suppose conferences, Lynda/Skillshare subscriptions, books, and devoted time away from work to study one thing new. We like to see our folks develop.

Worldwide is Completely Okay

Our workforce is unfold throughout the globe, together with Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, the UK, and everywhere in the United States. We arrange workforce members within the US and UK as staff, and people in different nations as impartial contractors.

As talked about above, now we have a while zone restrictions for this position, however so long as you’re between UTC-8 and UTC+1, we’re good!

Advantages

We provide glorious well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage for our US staff, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No must examine your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. Though in the event you did must examine your imaginative and prescient, we’ve obtained you coated!

We even have a Conventional and Roth 401k possibility. YNAB matches your contributions, as much as six % of your paycheck. Matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom charge construction potential, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds obtainable are incredible, passively-managed, ultra-low-cost index funds. Not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) For UK staff, we additionally contribute six % to your pension.

We additionally provide beneficiant paid parental depart for all full-time workforce members. Right here’s to growing the world’s budgeters, one youngster at a time!

Aggressive Compensation

The beginning wage vary for this place is $142,000-$170,000 USD yearly, relying on expertise. We contemplate raises yearly, and have a bi-annual profit-share bonus. YNAB wins, you win—that form of factor.

Different Tidbits

• When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING manner) that you simply fill out your “Bucket Checklist” spreadsheet with 50 objects. (That’s more durable than it sounds!)
• The bucket listing actually helps in deciding what we must always provide you with to your birthday and the vacations.
• We’re all adults. There’s no must punch a clock or ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to go see the physician. We take a look at what you accomplish, not how lengthy you sit (have you ever tried standing?) in entrance of a pc.
• We’re at the moment trialing a four-day work week! For us, this implies 4 common days of labor adopted by a three-day weekend…each week. That is new to us, and we’re studying quite a bit, however we’re enthusiastic about what it might imply each for the corporate and our workforce members.
• We wish you firing on all cylinders so we’ll set you up with a top-of-the-line laptop and can exchange it recurrently.
• Did we point out we make an enormous, optimistic distinction on this planet?

If this feels like your supreme setting, learn on as a result of now we need to speak about you. You’ll play a giant half in constructing one thing simple and joyful to make use of that helps tens of millions of individuals uncover budgeting as a vital monetary and life-planning software. You will change lives.

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You, Our New Safety Engineer

Tasks

While you learn the next listing, you’re in all probability going to suppose, “This sounds nice. I might actually assist in these areas,” after which a couple of bullet factors later, you’ll suppose, “Wait, that is an excessive amount of for one individual,” and that’s nearly actually true. Fortunately that is solely the primary place we’re filling for our safety workforce. We want your assist to determine the small print, however as we study extra we are able to speak about rising that workforce the place mandatory. As well as, you’ll have:

• The popularity that simply since you’ll act as our important marketing consultant in these areas, you received’t essentially be the primary implementer.
• Affordable expectations concerning timelines.
• The expertise essential to know the place to prioritize your power first, based mostly on strong threat evaluation of threats, their probability, and their affect.
• The authority to suggest methods to construct out and rent our safety workforce as we develop.
• The power to suppose strategically and long run, and switch that considering into tactical progress/accomplishment.

So though we’re looking for a safety unicorn with a large depth and breadth of information, we’re not anticipating you to be a magical unicorn!

Defend YNAB – The Product

• We’ve skilled, security-savvy engineers, and you’ll assist guarantee they comply with safe improvement practices and construct rigor round our software program improvement life cycle to make it safe.
• Triage incoming bugs from our ongoing Bug Bounty Program with the suitable utility engineers.
• Help and practice us in performing security-focused code critiques.
• Make the most of your expertise in establishing methods which can be safe by design to behave as the first safety marketing consultant for our engineers as they architect new methods.
• Examine intrusion/ATO makes an attempt utilizing our utility monitoring stack, and suggest infrastructure enhancements to make subsequent intrusion makes an attempt simpler to determine and block.
• Make significant suggestions for Safety Info and Occasion Administration (SIEM), and know what that will appear to be for a completely distant SaaS firm.
• Maintain abreast of greatest practices and vulnerabilities to make sure that we don’t fall behind as attackers innovate.
• Consider and Coordinate with third occasion auditors to carry out penetration assessments and code audits. (And if you learn their report, you possibly can simply distinguish between the advertising fluff and the scary stuff.)
• Advocate automated assessments to assist detect vulnerabilities earlier than we ship them.
• Introduce safety requirements which can be enforced by means of strong documentation and empathetic steering.
• Motive clearly about safety and product tradeoffs and stability such priorities in selections.
• Discover bettering engineering requirements, tooling, and processes rewarding.

Defend YNAB – The Firm

• Consider and increase our Inner Safety Insurance policies and Governance Paperwork.
• Know methods to discover the stability between insurance policies that make us extraordinarily safe, however paralyze the group, and lax insurance policies which can be extraordinarily environment friendly, however depart us one click on away from a business-ending ransomware assault.
• Work with Operations/IT to:
• Guarantee now we have configured our inner enterprise functions appropriately and securely.
• Advocate cloud suppliers for security-sensitive operations, like id administration, account provisioning, and so on.
• Carry out Inner Danger Assessments to assist guard towards essentially the most possible safety threats our enterprise faces.
• Consider and suggest inner safety coaching supplies which can be truly helpful.
• Assess our current infrastructure, from bodily asset practices to community settings.
• Reply to safety questionnaires from potential distributors.
• Assist navigate new legislative necessities concerning knowledge privateness.
• Determine threats and vulnerabilities in a completely distant SaaS setting.
• Put together for potential threats that might disrupt operations.

Defend our Clients and their Knowledge

• We assist our prospects to make safe selections by default, and you’ll assist enhance our current methods designed to: stop dangerous/breached passwords, encourage enabling 2FA, resist phishing and self-XSS makes an attempt, and so on. You’ll coordinate with the product and engineering groups to guage our efforts and make suggestions to enhance them.
• Seek the advice of with our Head of Product, Head of Expertise, Operations, and attorneys to assist reply to, and probably automate our (uncommon) GDPR/CCPA requests.
• Subject inner and exterior safety questions concerning the therapy of delicate knowledge.
• Maintain our exterior safety and privateness insurance policies updated.

A bit extra about you:

You may have a robust technical background with a minimum of 5 years of expertise associated to constructing, transport, and securing software program. Ideally in a SaaS setting.

We acknowledge that folks get into software program “safety” by many paths, so it’s tough to boil our expertise necessities all the way down to an ideal listing of bullet factors, however you’re the individual we’re in search of in the event you:

• Usually are not solely undaunted however excited in regards to the above listing of duties and appropriately assured in your capacity to sort out most of them.
• Are a collaborative workforce participant, but additionally comfy working independently with plenty of autonomy.
• Have sufficient expertise to be stunned to see us depart sure issues out of the above job description, and look ahead to educating us.
• Have broad sufficient abilities to have the ability to make best-practice safety suggestions for our group as an entire, whereas having deep sufficient abilities to have the ability to acknowledge and probably even exploit prime OWASP vulnerabilities like SQL injections, XSS, and so on.
• Labored on, and probably led a safety workforce earlier than with a title like Software Safety Lead or Software Safety Engineer.
• Are a superb written and verbal communicator.
• We divorce administration experience from technical experience right here, and it is a technical position. Though you don’t should understand how or need to handle folks, you have to be extraordinarily personable and in a position to effortlessly be a liaison and champion of safety and coverage between all groups and ranges at YNAB.

Prison Data:

In case your path to the world of data safety concerned “hacking”, and you’ve got a legal report consequently, we’ll nonetheless contemplate you relying upon the circumstances. Tell us upfront so we are able to speak about it moderately than be stunned when doing our background checks.

Variety

YNAB is an equal alternative employer. We imagine a variety of backgrounds, beliefs, talents, and experiences is crucial to our success. We’re obsessed with making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative setting for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a wise, skilled, and various workforce that loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.

Find out how to Apply

• Apply by filling out this way. You’ll must log in to your Google account to entry it.
• The deadline is 11:59 pm PT on Sunday, July 10, 2022.
• Our aim is to make the hiring course of as accessible as potential. If we will help you with an accessibility want, electronic mail us at  at [email protected]. Make sure to point out within the topic line that you simply’re making use of for the Senior Safety Engineer place. (Please be aware that this inbox is just monitored for messages associated to lodging.)

We’re excited to listen to from you!

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P.S. If you happen to’re not on this place proper now, however know somebody who is perhaps, we’d admire you passing this alongside!