Senior Software Engineer, Security
The Opportunity
We are looking for a talented Security Engineer with deep systems expertise to join our team. You will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and operating large-scale systems that ensure reliable, rapid deployment, robust monitoring, and resilient operations.
Your Impact
- Help design, monitor, and improve the security of the devices and services in AWS cloud
- Analyze, assess, and respond to various internet threats, interacting directly with the Otter’s engineering community regarding vulnerabilities and threats
- Drive security engineering projects to eliminate attack vectors, harden the product, and enhance monitoring and intrusion detection systems.
- Work with internal teams and external partners to implement security controls to efficiently deliver on security and privacy compliance requirements
- Work with in-house application development teams ensuring that best practices for security are incorporated in the software development life cycle (DAST, SAST, etc.)
- Write scripts and build tools that will use used to detect security issues upfront
- Be a security champion, while balancing developer efficiency with business needs
We're looking for someone who
- 5+ years of experience on an internal application or infrastructure security team as a security engineer or related discipline.
- Bachelor's in CS or EE or equivalent practical experience.
- Conducting code review and influencing secure product design.
- Experience working with web and mobile applications security.
- Experience evaluating vulnerabilities and responding to incidents.
- Experience designing and assessing AWS security features.
- Experience with securing DevOps, including securing the delivery pipeline, managing logs, analyzing logs for fraud and attacks, and testing security.
- Proficiency in any programming language (Python, Javascript, Perl, Ruby, etc).
- Knowledge of infra-as-code, e.g. Terraform, Salt, Ansible, etc.
- Technical knowledge of virtual machines, containerization, microservice architecture, AWS, or network security.
We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable.
With over 1B meetings transcribed, Otter.ai is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.
Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are dedicated to inclusivity.
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Salary range
Salary Range: $185,000 to $210,000 USD per year
This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent based on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of our comprehensive total rewards package.