Senior Security Engineer, Ethos Life
$165-221k
Life insurance provider
Job no longer available
Life insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$165-221k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Ethos Life's mission is to protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of full time core, relevant InfoSec experience
- Intimate familiarity with AWS cloud security, experience automating security processes in cloud environments
- Proficiency in threat modeling, design reviews and security testing of various types of applications, technologies and platforms
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools
- Ability to write automation scripts, ideally in more than one language
- Experience in vulnerability/threat management activities at the infrastructure, platform, and application level
- Experience with penetration tests/red team exercises, ideally the type that involve manual verification, exploitation, lateral movement, etc
- Expertise with event management/SIEM solutions, data modeling associated with building event detection and alerting capabilities
What the job involves
- As a member of Ethos Trust and Safety team, you'll be responsible for building various security services and performing technical security risk assessments to support the Ethos main product
- You'll help architect and build our internal security standards and frameworks
- This role will help build and deploy various security controls in line with foundational security principles like least privilege, defense in depth, segregation of duties and zero-trust architecture
- Design, develop, and deploy security mechanisms to protect against adversarial attacks, data breaches, and other security vulnerabilities
- Design and build robust threat detection, monitoring, investigation workflows response architectures and the components of the security analytics platform
- Monitor and evaluate operational/security alerts
- Conduct Threat Modeling, Design Reviews and Security Testing
- Communicate risks to engineering staff through training and technical demonstration of vulnerabilities and secure design patterns
- Partner with the DevOps team to orchestrate/automate security controls in the Ethos infrastructure/platform
- Lead the vulnerability management lifecycle at the infrastructure, platform, and application levels
- Participate in investigations, threat hunting, and incident response activities; build playbooks for specific incident response scenarios
- Assist with compliance activities, such as SOC2 control implementation and testing, vendor risk assessments, etc
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Ethos was founded to increase the transparency of life insurance, making it accessible and affordable to all. The company want to add openness to the process; losing a loved one is hard enough before one even considers financial implications, particularly with the loss of a primary earner.
Ethos uses predictive technology to rapidly quote life insurance rates and verify an applicant’s medical information. This expedited process allows most users to secure life cover on the same day they apply, a process which normally takes a number of weeks. The company works with some of the biggest providers in the industry, including Legal & General America, AAA Life and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
Ethos has been one of the more heavily publicised of the recent wave of insurtech companies, with investors such as Google as well as celebrities Will Smith and Jay Z, taking its valuation to over $2 billion. However, the sector is being hit particularly hard by macroeconomic uncertainty and Ethos has conducted several rounds of layoffs through 2022 and early 2023. Now focused on its core product and revenue growth, it is poised to extend its market leading position.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
72% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES D
May 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $406.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Awesome medical, dental, and vision plans that start when you start
- Restricted Stock Units
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- New parents can take leave with 100% wage replacement
- Team training, volunteering opportunities, additional resources, and some amazing Employee Resource Groups: Black at Ethos, Parents, Pride & Shethos
- Our healthcare plans offer coverage on family planning and fertility
Company values
- Serve our Families
- Intellectual Rigor
- Bias for Impact
- Speak Your Mind
Company HQ
Berkley Square - Headway, Austin, TX
Articles
Founders
Peter Colis
(CEO)After an MBA at Stanford, Peter co-founded Ovid Corp in 2014, where he worked as CEO for 4 years before co-founding Ethos in 2016. He has worked as CEO since, alongside serving as a Sequoia Capital Scout.
Lingke Wang
(President)After working as an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley Lingke gained an MBA from Stanford. He then co-founded Ovid Corp. an insurance company before Ethos.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Ethos Life
- At Ethos, accessibility is core to our mission of protecting the next million families. Increasing access means diversity and inclusion are essential to the success of both our customers and our employees. At Ethos, we value every customer and each employee's unique voice, while ensuring they have an equal opportunity to be heard.
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