Security Engineer

The security team at Spotify is a distributed team supporting autonomous development teams with a focus on raising security awareness, sharing responsibility, and building tools. We aim to constantly improve the security posture for our fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment in a manner that will keep up with our scale. We’re knowledgeable in many domains of security and are willing to teach (and learn) from anyone at the company.

What you will do:

Champion security with development teams to make their code more secure, primarily through manual code/architecture review

Design, build, and operate innovative tools to enhance our security

Be the first response and remediation for security-related incidents

Consult, evangelize, and teach theoretical and practical security to groups of varying sizes, disciplines, and experience levels

Continually improve your technical and collaboration skills

Engage and participate in the security community

Who you are:

You have worked in a software engineering or security role

You have experience in defending against attacks in several areas of security

You are knowledgeable in mobile, web security, or authentication schemas (a plus but not required)

You understand security in distributed systems at scale

You know how to code in at least one programming language

You have ability to read and break code in languages including Python, Java, C/C++ and PHP

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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*All CVs to be submitted in English please