Sr. Security Engineer – Viator

Viator, a Tripadvisor company, is the leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 300,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and all the niche, interesting stuff in between)—making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier. With industry-leading flexibility and last-minute availability, it’s never too late to make any day extraordinary. Viator. One app, 300,000+ travel experiences you’ll remember.

The Viator Engineering Platform Team is seeking an experienced Senior Security Engineer with a blend of software engineering and security engineering skills. In this role you will be part of the Security and Compliance Engineering team working to improve a core part of our Engineering Platform, ensuring developers have the right tools, processes, and environment to identify, prevent, detect, respond to and recover from security issues.

Our team’s purpose is to enable the wider engineering team to build systems that justify the trust we all need to keep, whilst we all deliver our company mission. We offer both products and services to the rest of the engineering team to help meet this aim.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement a vulnerability management program integrating our existing sources of vulnerability data.
• Consult with product engineering or other engineering platform teams to integrate security and compliance best practices into their engineering designs.
• Implement tools for automating security processes (e.g. secrets management)
• Lead our security champions programme
• You will be part of a dynamic, fun, and energetic team where you can immediately make meaningful contributions and grow as a senior software engineer.
• Evangelise security and compliance best practices for engineers and lead the innovation across the wider engineering team.
• Collaborate and work closely with product engineers and product owners to understand their context and co-design appropriate solutions which balance feature delivery and quality

Skills & Experience

• 4+ years experience working as a software or systems engineer
• Scripting (shell or python) or object oriented language like Java
• Experience with security and familiarity with security best practices in at  least one domain including internet facing apis (e.g. rest, graphql), web
  applications, aws hosted infrastructure
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to write documentation and align internal team members
• Confidence to participate in technical discussions with engineering colleagues and in business discussions with key stakeholders
• The ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas
• Experience with security tooling, automation, scripting

Perks of Working at Viator

• Competitive compensation packages, including base salary, annual bonus, and equity.
• “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. We take a remote-friendly approach to collaboration, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like in select locations.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums

Our Values

We aspire to lead; We’re relentlessly curious;… want to know more? Read up on our values: 

• We aspire to lead. Tap into your talent, ambition, and knowledge to bring us – and you – to new heights.
• We’re relentlessly curious. We push beyond the usual, the known, the “that’s just how it’s done.”
• We’re better together. We learn from, accept, respect, support, and value one another– and are creating something remarkable in the process.
• We serve our customers, always. We listen, question, respond, and strive for wow moments.

We strive for better, not perfect. We won’t get it right the first time – or every time. We’ll provide a safe environment in which to make mistakes, iterate, improve, and grow.

Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

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