WHO WE AREAppboy is the leading lifecycle marketing platform for the mobile-first era. We exist to help marketers seize the opportunities created by the challenges of today’s digital economy. That means we built the world’s best intelligent CRM so marketers can connect human-to-human, at scale, with their customers, driving deep engagement and ROI.

The center of our platform is the holistic user profile that offers a single view of the customer. Our robust audience segmentation and advanced multi-channel messaging allow brands to use the data from these user profiles to create and automate highly personalized marketing campaigns, and build meaningful dialogues with their audiences across devices and channels.

Thousands of global marketers use Appboy to connect with over 700 million active users, with 150 billion real-time events and 7.5 billion messages processed through our platform each month. We help brands like Domino’s, Tinder, iHeartMedia, Opera, SoundCloud, and Urban Outfitters to better engage, retain, and monetize their customers. Appboy is venture backed with over 120 employees and offices in New York, San Francisco, and London. Learn more at Appboy.com.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We're looking for a Security Engineer to be responsible for designing and implementing security practices for our applications and infrastructure. Appboy operates on massive scale, collecting hundreds of billions of data points each month and sending hundreds of millions of messages to end-users daily. Customers such as Tinder, SoundCloud, Capital One, and Domino's Pizza rely on Appboy to power their user engagement and user lifecycle strategies. With that kind of corporate responsibility, we care a lot about security at Appboy: we ensure our applications are built with a focus on security, and we undergo a multitude of third-party audits each year to affirm our use of security best practices.

You will be joining Appboy as our first full-time security hire, reporting directly to the CTO. In your day to day, you will work with engineers across all of our different groups (mobile, dashboard and backend, data infrastructure, operations, etc.) to harden and automate security practices and controls.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Improve secure engineering practices in the engineering organization
• Work with our devops team to implement network security controls such as WAF and IDS systems
• Manage all of Appboy's third-party security audits and penetration tests with vendors
• Assist Appboy's sales and legal departments with business-related security evaluations
• Define company-wide security practices and procedures
• Conduct regular security assessments of Appboy's applications, infrastructure, and security controls

WHAT YOU HAVE

• At least 2 years of experience working as a Security Engineer or similar
• The knowledge and ability to run a penetration test of a web application by yourself
• Understanding of Amazon Web Services and modern application architecture
• Working knowledge of programming and scripting languages
• Excellent communication skills
• Familiarity with SOC

THE PERKS

• Competitive compensation that includes equity
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) matching, life insurance, commuter benefits, and parental leave plans
• Daily catered lunches and fully stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages
• Collaborative, transparent, collegial and fun loving office culture
• Flexible time off policy to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best