Quora
Detection & CorpSec Engineer
USRemotePosted Today$172,279 – $249,640
Full TimeMidRemoteUS
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Job Description
[Quora is a privately held, “remote-first” company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details
Key Highlights
- Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.
- Build and maintain a SIEM to collect and analyze logs from across corporate and production systems; write and deploy detections and alerts to identify malicious behavior
- Design and deploy canary tokens and early warning mechanisms to detect threats before they reach critical assets
- Investigate security incidents end-to-end — including malware analysis, exfiltration assessment, and timeline reconstruction — and build runbooks to scale response capabilities
- Partner with IT to define and enforce security standards across the employee device fleet, including endpoint protection, managed device requirements, OS compliance, and VPN access controls
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or a closely related field
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining SIEM infrastructure and writing detection rules
- Experience with endpoint security tools (e.g. CrowdStrike or similar EDR platforms)
- Strong Python engineering skills with a track record of writing production code reviewed and shipped alongside software engineering teams
- Experience conducting security incident investigations, including malware analysis, log review, and timeline reconstruction and threat modeling
- Experience with corporate security controls, identity management, endpoint protection, and access control enforcement
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or a closely related field
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining SIEM infrastructure and writing detection rules
- Experience with endpoint security tools (e.g. CrowdStrike or similar EDR platforms)
- Strong Python engineering skills with a track record of writing production code reviewed and shipped alongside software engineering teams
- Experience conducting security incident investigations, including malware analysis, log review, and timeline reconstruction and threat modeling
- Experience with corporate security controls, identity management, endpoint protection, and access control enforcement
- Experience with SIEM/SOAR options such as Elastic/Splunk or alternatives
- Familiarity with identity platforms such as Okta
- Strong understanding of authentication technology such as OAuth, Yubikey and Passkey
- Experience with Zero-Trust network architecture or VPN implementation
- Demonstrated use of AI coding tools to build or automate security workflows
- Experience in a small security team or fast-paced startup environment
- Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native security tooling
- Experience with SIEM/SOAR options such as Elastic/Splunk or alternatives
- Familiarity with identity platforms such as Okta
- Strong understanding of authentication technology such as OAuth, Yubikey and Passkey
- Experience with Zero-Trust network architecture or VPN implementation
- Demonstrated use of AI coding tools to build or automate security workflows
- Experience in a small security team or fast-paced startup environment
- Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native security tooling
Skills & Technologies
PythonAWS
About the Company
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Mid
Salary Range
$172,279 – $249,640
Location
US
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today
Country
US