At Weight Watchers, we inspire and guide the healthier choices that transform lives. We meet our members where they are and leverage the latest nutritional and behavioral science to help them eat healthier, move more, and shift their mindset. We are a purpose-driven organization and we understand how to create community and deliver personalized services to help our members throughout every step of their journey. We have more than 50 years of history and trust to build on, and we are leveraging technology, community, and behavior science to help more people around the world reach their goals. Our approach is science-based and evidence proven to help people lose weight and develop healthy habits to live life fully. If being part of a purpose-driven, member-focused, high-performing digital culture sounds exciting to you; we encourage you to apply for this position.

We are uniquely positioned to lead the way in the exciting Health Tech industry. With several million people logging in and using Weight Watchers' Apps and systems we are modernizing and rebuilding most of our core experiences and embracing modern engineering practices and techniques. Our strategy is to compete in an increasingly digital weight loss market. Our innovative technology fundamentally improves the way people manage their weight, health and wellness. We are agile service oriented, data-driven, cloud enabled and efficient. We've built Simple UIs on Angular, micro services in Play/Scala & Node, moved our core data to Mongo and Cassandra and enhanced our mobile apps. As reliance on health and wellness awareness increases, come make an impact on a team that is leading the way!

Role overview

Our cyber security team is here to protect the security of millions of customers globally. We strive to adopt innovative solutions to problems and apply concepts of attack driven defense to improve our security posture. We design solutions that mitigate risk rather than check boxes.

 We are seeking a passionate security operations leader to build automated systems to harden our infrastructure and implement methods to detect and respond to intrusions as they happen. This individual will partner with our business and technology teams to ensure we make risk informed strategic decisions.

You will develop technical solutions to prevent compromise, our capabilities to detect threats, and response mechanisms to handle incidents when they happen.

Key Responsibilities

• Evolve our offensive security capabilities beyond automated assessments to include attack simulations and real-world scenario testing
• Continuously improve our detection and monitoring program driven by offensive research and engagements (i.e.., building the purple team mindset)
• Drive incident response capabilities throughout across our organization (e.g., legal, communications, HR, technology operations, customer service)
• Improving our detection program to drive higher signal to noise indicators (e.g., deception based approaches, tuning our toolsets, leveraging higher fidelity threat intel)
• Design and implement solutions to detect and prevent compromise; from initial compromise through persistence, lateral movement, and exfiltration
• Use attack driven techniques to improve our applications and systems defenses, and discover new vulnerabilities across our production, corporate, and cloud infrastructure
• Design and implement security infrastructure that enables the team at any stage of the cyber attack lifecycle
• Automate and streamline existing security processes and procedures

Experience required

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with building and leading any combination of the following: building detection programs, incident response, system/network security
• Experience implementing and automating security in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCE, Azure)
• Experience with logging integrations and products (e.g., Splunk)
• Understanding in incident response methodologies, planning, testing, and execution
• Understand the people aspects of security and enjoy collaborating with others to build secure things
• Contributions to the security community (e.g., research, CVEs, bug bounties, open source projects)

We hire only the best people. Here are the benefits to being top-notch: 

• The opportunity to work with some of the best innovators in the industry
• Generous healthcare coverage.
• 401(K) with company match.
• Paid Time Off
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Annual wellness allowance
• Profit Sharing

Weight Watchers is an equal opportunity employer. Weight Watchers does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, creed, national origin, marital status, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.