Security Engineer
About Turing
Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is the world’s first AI-powered tech services company. It has reimagined tech services from the ground up with AI by offering AI-vetted and matched talent, AI-accelerated development, and access to AI transformation experts who have built many of the most iconic Silicon Valley companies.
Founded in 2018, the company has experienced tremendous growth with three million global developers on its Talent Cloud and 900+ clients. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes’s 2022 “One of America’s Best Startup Employers,” being ranked #1 in The Information’s 2021 Annual List of most promising B2B Companies and Fast Company’s “Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.”
The company’s leadership team comprises both AI technologists from leading organizations including Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Stanford, Caltech, MIT as well as tech consulting veterans from Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, McKinsey, Bain, and more.
Overview
In this role, the senior and tenured candidate will lead the security compliance efforts by implementing repeatable and consistent processes and frameworks. As a startup, there will be many opportunities to set the direction and build from scratch. Moving fast while delivering will be key in this role and will require good time management, a sense of urgency, and big picture thinking.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for and lead network security and compliance projects of the entire Turing site and services
- Perform day-to-day operational network security activities
- Introduce and drive operationalization and automation enterprise focused security improvements
- Educate and advocate for security best practices within the organization
- Work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix vulnerabilities and compliance issues
- Protect Turing sites and network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information
- Work with our SaaS vendors to improve our security practices and implement security integrations
- Design infrastructure and drive its implementation to protect Turing’s networks and systems
- Conduct security reviews of core corporate and production infrastructure
- Build security tools and processes for critical infrastructure protection, monitoring and remediation
Qualifications Needed:
- Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years industry experience in architecting, developing, and troubleshooting systems for security improvement and enhancement
- Experience with SOC 2 certification process and other standards like NIST, PCI & HIPAA
- Knowledge on applicable laws and regulations like GDPR, CCPA.etc & implementing best practices for compliance
- Experience in governance, risk and compliance management
- Experience in compliance automation
- Operational experience in network security including patch management and implementing web application firewalls (WAFs)
- Familiar with network routing protocol, DNS, LoadBalancer, Nginx, etc.
- Tooling experience: Cloudflare, Imperva, Rapid7, GitHub
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Bonus:
- Experience at a big 4 consulting firm
- Security certifications from ISACA, ISC2 or other security relevant certifications
- Familiar with programming languages like Python, etc.
Advantages of joining Turing:
- Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
- Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible working hours
- Full-time remote opportunity
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.
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