Base Salary
$172k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a SIEM that collects and analyzes logs from corporate and production systems.
- Write and deploy detections and alerts for malicious behavior.
- Design and deploy canary tokens and early-warning mechanisms.
- Investigate security incidents end to end, including malware analysis, exfiltration assessment, and timeline reconstruction.
- Create incident-response runbooks to scale response capabilities.
- Partner with IT to define and enforce employee-device security standards, including endpoint protection, managed-device requirements, OS compliance, and VPN access controls.
- Drive the proof of concept and implementation of Zero-Trust VPN and other corporate security infrastructure.
- Provide security guidance and advisory support to non-engineering teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or a closely related field.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining SIEM infrastructure and writing detection rules.
- Experience with endpoint security tools such as CrowdStrike or similar EDR platforms.
- Strong Python engineering skills and experience shipping production code reviewed with software engineering teams.
- Experience conducting security incident investigations, including malware analysis, log review, timeline reconstruction, and threat modeling.
- Experience with corporate security controls, identity management, endpoint protection, and access-control enforcement.
- Preferred experience with SIEM/SOAR platforms such as Elastic or Splunk.
- Preferred familiarity with identity platforms such as Okta.
- Preferred understanding of OAuth, Yubikey, and Passkey authentication technologies.
- Preferred experience with Zero-Trust network architecture or VPN implementation.
- Preferred use of AI coding tools to build or automate security workflows.
- Preferred experience working on a small security team or in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Preferred familiarity with AWS and cloud-native security tooling.
Benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada or the United States, subject to country eligibility.
- Remote work reimbursement, medical, dental, and vision coverage, equity refreshers, paid time off, and employee assistance programs.
- Benefits are country-specific and may vary.
- Availability is expected during coordination hours, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time.
- Final candidates undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check before onboarding.
About Quora
Quora’s mission is to grow the world’s collective intelligence. We do this by connecting people and AI to share knowledge, collaborate, and solve problems together. By reducing friction in how intelligence is shared—publicly on Quora and privately on Poe—we’re building platforms that make knowledge more accessible and accelerate learning and progress for everyone. Quora is a global knowledge sharing platform with hundreds of millions of monthly unique visitors, connecting writers who have knowledge across millions of topics with a global audience of readers who want to learn from their collective experience. Poe aggregates access to the best models from many different AI companies in a single chat interface across all platforms, and enables creators to build and monetize applications that use these models. Visit quora.com/careers to browse open roles and apply online. Quora company blog: blog.quora.com Engineering blog: engineering.quora.com Design blog: design.quora.com Data blog: data.quora.com Recruiting blog: interviewingatquora.quora.com/ Intern blog: quorainterns.quora.com