Cloud Security Engineer
Over the coming years, biotech will fundamentally rewrite the way we live. Gene editing and cell therapy are dramatically changing how we treat cancer and other major illnesses. Biofuels and biomaterials are transforming the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, and the makeup of everyday objects. Crop science and synthetic biology are producing sustainable and ethical food. Benchling’s mission is to accelerate the research that propels us towards this reality, and magnify its impact, through modern software.
Every day, scientists around the world use Benchling’s applications, platform, & analytics in their efforts to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. For these scientists, Benchling is the central technology they use to conduct their research. Our customers include pharmaceutical giants, leading biotechs, and the world’s most renowned research institutes.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Cloud Security Engineer at Benchling you’ll be joining a team responsible for building a best-in-class security program from the ground up. Our focus is on providing value to the organization by emphasizing real world security and embracing automation to keep up with the company as we experience hyper-growth. We’re looking for engineers who are excited to apply their expertise to our mission of securing some of society's most sensitive data.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
- Partnering with the Product Infrastructure Engineering teams on security and privacy initiatives, leading security design reviews, and threat modeling.
- Collaborating with other Security and Engineering teams to improve visibility of cloud resources.
- Performing assessments of cloud infrastructure supporting our product offerings and partner apps, including SaaS and PaaS.
- Researching new attack vectors and techniques relevant to our space and present findings to both internal and external audiences.
- Researching known vulnerabilities and collaborate with engineers on the best ways to mitigate and reduce risk.
- Participating in our incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts.
- Evaluating external tooling, develop new automation and tooling.
- Partnering with Product Infrastructure Engineering on evolving the CI/CD pipeline to meet modern security threats and risks.
- Developing secure baselines and standards for cloud based infrastructure and train engineering teams on their usage.
- Helping to rapidly scale our team. As a member of the security team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our own tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.
ABOUT YOU
- 5-10+ years in a security engineering role with experience in cloud security reviews and ideally threat modeling experience
- Strong communicator with the ability to translate technical security requirements and risks into terms that anyone can understand
- In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure, docker and it’s associated security suites (e.g., IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Terraform and/or CloudFormation experience
- Relevant development experience in at least one scripting language, preferably Python
- Experience with vulnerability management and risk assessment processes
- Technical leadership skills; you enjoy being a tech lead, mentoring technologists, evangelizing security and privacy
- Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
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Benchling welcomes everyone. We believe every member of our team enriches our diversity and inclusion by broadening our ways of problem-solving for future challenges. Even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications for this job, we strongly encourage you to apply.
LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES
- Admit mistakes and shortcomings
- Deliver results
- Disagree and commit
- Obsess over customers
- Rely on work ethic
- Show empathy
- Recruit and develop the best
- Sweat the details
- Think and communicate clearly
- Unite around the mission
PERKS AND BENEFITS
- Work with a talented yet humble team
- Competitive compensation & equity package
- Weekly virtual social events, and annual company retreats
- 401k, Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US Employees Only)
- Monthly health & wellness stipend
- Yearly educational stipend
- Flexible & Generous Vacation Policy: If you feel you need a break, you can talk directly with your manager to find coverage and support while you are out of the office. Need time off to vote? We've got you covered.
- Quarterly company-wide mental health days off
- Holiday Shut-down: company-wide holiday shut-down between Christmas Eve and New Years
- Major US and EMEA holidays observed
- To support remote work conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Benchling provides each employee a one-time stipend of $1,000(USD) upon commencing employment, and additional discounted employee purchase plans for home-office equipment.
Protecting the health of our employees and the candidates interested in a role at Benchling is our top priority. We appreciate your understanding and being open and flexible with any changes related to our interviewing process.
For applicants for U.S.-based roles only: All new hires in the United States are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide proof of vaccination prior to their first day of employment. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons, we will explore potential reasonable accommodations; however, Benchling may not be able to grant such accommodations in all cases if doing so would cause an undue hardship.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.