Senior Security Engineer, Patreon
$166-231.5k
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Funding platform for creatives
Job no longer available
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$166-231.5k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Patreon's mission is to power creators to do what they love, and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a senior security engineer with experience in the cloud security and/or application/product security domain. This role allows for remote work
- Minimum 4 years of experience as a Security Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer
- Significant technical experience with AWS
- Experience with Python and/or any other additional language
- Deep experience managing and maintaining Web Application Firewalls, PKI, Infrastructure-as-Code tools, and Data sharing services
- Deep experience in cloud native environments
- Working knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with the development, deployment, and automation of security solutions in an enterprise cloud-based environment
- Knowledge of network based, system level, and application layer attacks and mitigation methods
- Experience with or understanding of a broad range of security technologies including SIEM, SOAR, PKI, IDS/IPS, IAM, Certificate Management, etc
- Strong knowledge of technology and security topics including network and application security, infrastructure hardening, security baselines, web server, and database security
- An understanding of identity federation, authentication, and authorization (SAML, OIDC, OAuth)
- Strong understanding of common security libraries, security controls, and common security flaws
- Experience making contributions to security community (i.e. podcasts, blogs, open-source tooling, etc.)
What the job involves
- Design, Architect and implement solutions to strengthen our infrastructure and corporate security posture
- Design and deliver solutions that solve real-world security problems
- Implement and tune security detection and automation for response
- Develop security processes and automated tooling that prevent classes of security issues (ie., SSRF, broken AuthZ, etc.)
- Provide architectural, design and threat-based guidance to software development teams to improve the security posture before code is written
- Perform security assessments of Patreon’s platform, which includes our web application, mobile application, infrastructure, developer tools and internal services
- Respond to and, when appropriate, resolve or escalate security incidents
- Assess, design, implement, automate, and document security solutions and processes for securing K8s, Private Cloud environments, Distributed Systems, and SaaS applications
- Participate in application architecture design, Perform security-focused code reviews, and collaborate with engineering teams to educate them on threats and vulnerabilities applicable to Patreon’s platform
- Be the standard bearer for security at Patreon
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over its over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5 billion through the platform. It is going through a period of downsizing to focus on its core business, and is continuing to hire talent to improve its product and expand its marketing efforts.
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
49% female employees
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Company values
- Build with care
- Think big, but start small
- Guide & empower
- Respect the value of creators’ work
- Honor the relationship between creators and patrons
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Jack Conte
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(CTO)Worked in analytics and engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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