Job Description
What You'll Do:
- Evaluate and strengthen Kensho’s security systems and processes across all products and teams by building a scalable process to ensure the security feedback loop is strong
- Write, monitor, and triage security tests and test infrastructure
- Directly interface with customer infosec teams, lawyers, external security researchers as well as internal partners to ensure that Kensho maintains a best-in-class security envelope
- Cultivate full team participation in high quality, thoughtful, secure software
What We Look For:
- Deep experience securing modern web applications and distributed data infrastructure in a cross-team setting
- Willingness to find and fix vulnerabilities in both our own software and 3rd party dependencies
- Experience with penetration testing and industry-standard cryptography
- Expertise in automated and scalable testing, automation, and continuous integration frameworks
- Desire to build a strong, operationally-minded engineering culture through effective and thoughtful coding, documentation, and collaborative approach as a code reviewer and teammate
How to Really Get Our Attention:
- Security engineer experience at a top 10 software company
- Participation and awards at security capture-the-flag competitions
- Open source project contributions showing innovation and initiative
- Hedge fund or major financial institution trading experience
- Relevant research, publications, and patents
Technologies We Like:
- Python, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Calico, Git, Jenkins, Sentry, Cypress
Perks:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with 100% premium covered
- Unlimited vacation days
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Free snacks and drinks
- Dog-friendly office
- Cardio machines and weights in the office
- Hubway (bike sharing program) membership
Kensho combines natural language search queries, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools for investment professionals. Addressing the three biggest challenges surrounding investment analysis on Wall Street today—speed, scale, and automation—Kensho's intelligent computer systems are capable of answering complex financial questions posed in plain English.
Kensho is a data analytics and machine intelligence company. Kensho deploys scalable machine learning and analytics systems across the most critical government and commercial institutions in the world to solve some of the hardest analytical problems of our time.
Founded in the spring of 2013 out of MIT and Harvard, Kensho's senior team members come from veteran positions at Google, Apple, and the United States Federal Reserve.
They are a diverse and spirited group of engineers, scientists, and financial professionals who are accomplished analytical thinkers and passionate problem solvers. Together, their multi-talented team includes PhD physicists, a three time International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) world champion, PhD economists, internationally competitive chess players, the author of Quantitative Finance for Physicists, a member of the original Apple iPhone engineering team, and one of the youngest ever entrants to Harvard College (age 15).
