The mission of Yieldstreet's Security Team is to protect our investor and company data by monitoring the data we generate from the services we use and create, implementing thoughtful controls that enhance enterprise security with mínimal impact to team productivity, and raising awareness of the persistent threats to our organization.
We are enablers.
We make it easier for stakeholders in infrastructure and core engineering to create secure products, while preempting security vulnerabilities in our platform.
As the Security Engineering Lead, you will build and lead a team to drive the design, implementation, and maintenance of Yieldstreet's security solutions while also ensuring a seamless developer experience across our software development life cycle.
You will collaborate with Yieldstreet's core and infrastructure engineering teams to deliver shared outcomes that measurably improve our efficacy and efficiency in detecting, responding to, and recovering from vulnerabilities and threats, and acquiring and maintaining industry certifications.
This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer.
**What you will do**:
- Monitor, investigate and respond to security threats across Yieldstreet systems and networks
- Develop and enforce security best practices for infrastructure automation and orchestration.
- Monitor bug bounty submissions and coordinate response to legitimate submissions.
- Analyze event logs and network activity to detect and respond to security incidents.
- Assist in maintaining SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and related compliance standards.
- Drive a culture of security through security training and awareness efforts.
- Participate in incident response and recovery efforts as needed.
**Focus Areas**:
- Threat Modeling and Attack Surface Reduction
- Vulnerability Management
- Security Operations Monitoring
- Endpoint State Management
- Cloud Security Architecture
- Application Security Architecture
**What you will need**:
- Minimum 5 years experience building software
- Minimum 3 years of experience building in AWS (with Terraform)
- Fluent in English and ability to document solutions and specifications
- Experience improving the developer experience and security properties of a multi-service deployment
**Nice to Haves**:
- Experience with Java (Spring Boot / Akka), JavaScript, and GoLang
- Familiarity with the following technologies: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, SonarQube, Crowdstrike Falcon, Cloudflare, Istio, Datadog,
- About You:_
On the Yieldstreet's Security Team, we are the defenders against bad actors, insecure software configurations, and insider privilege misuse.
We use threat modeling to assess the security impacts of change on our systems and our products.
In most organizations, Security is seen as a gatekeeper.
At Yieldstreet, we are enablers of secure innovation; creating training programs to develop products with security awareness and defensive coding practices in mind, providing architectural guidance to ensure the privacy and security of our investor data, and developing security guard rails in our multi-account cloud footprint to enable product engineers to try new things without leaking sensitive data.
**How To Apply**:
**About Yieldstreet**
Yieldstreet is the leading private market investment platform.
We believe that private market alternatives should be a fundamental part of your portfolio.
That's why we're unlocking access to make it easier than ever to get started.
We partner with top-tier investment managers to provide investors with a wide range of opportunities across real estate, venture capital, private equity, art, short term notes and more.
All of our offerings are curated and vetted by our team to help investors diversify away from the stock market with confidence.
**Why Yieldstreet?
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Join a team of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages who are on a mission to make alternative investments a fundamental part of the modern portfolio.
Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B.
We get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites!
We are a hybrid work company giving you the opportunity to connect with your peers in real time with the flexibility to work remotely a few days per week.
**What's in it for you**:
Competitive compensation packages including equity
Health, dental & vision coverage with FSA/HSA options
Unlimited PTO
Learning and Development stipend
Wellness credit
Paid lunch once a week
Sabbatical
Summer Fridays