Software Engineering Lead, Information Security

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become a trusted global digital public square, committed to minimal censorship within legal boundaries. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Role: Sr./Staff Software Engineering Lead, Information Security

Location: SF, San Jose

Base Salary Range: $162,000 - $297,000 USD
 

Who We Are:

This Software Engineering team is a part of the Infosec Org and focuses on executing large engineering efforts on the X tech stack that addresses gaps in our overall security capabilities. The team builds and owns core security services and libs that promote security by default in our platform. The team is also investing in building services to improve X’s detection capabilities by leveraging both internal and third-party intelligence. We also work directly with other product engineering teams on new features.

Who You Are:
You enjoy new challenges and are passionate about continually pushing the boundaries of scale. You take satisfaction in building resilient, high-performance, and thoroughly tested systems that can power the most business-critical applications. You want to learn, work with, and contribute to cutting-edge open-source technologies. You have a vision for what secured infrastructure should look like and are comfortable with executing on that vision. Ideally, you have many of the following:

• Bachelor's or advanced Degree in Computer Science or closely related field

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with an expertise in software engineering standards (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation).

• Solid experience working with distributed systems. 

• Proficiency with object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.

• Good understanding of JVM based architecture.

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills

• Strong and effective communication skills.

• Basic understanding of Security fundamentals, e.g. how TLS works.

What You'll Do: 

As a Software Engineering Lead in Information Security, you will 

• build distributed systems, and framework libraries to provide security defaults, along with tools to detect security threats in our products and API's. 

• work closely with InfoSec leadership and other stakeholders to address imminent threats as well as to lead strategic projects.

• understand potential gaps in X’s security posture, create a sustainable roadmap to address various security challenges, and set the priorities for the work in the roadmap