Senior Infrastructure Security Software Engineer (Remote)

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to review cloud and compute architecture design changes
• Establish threat models for cloud and compute paved roads to identify security risks
• Develop or adopt open-source tools to monitor and harden our cloud Infrastructure, harden our OS, develop security logging pipelines and detect intrusions
• Apply your expert knowledge of security best practices for AWS and Kubernetes to inform remediations and the team's control roadmap
• Drive the definition and implementation of security policies and monitor in conformance to the policies
• Write code for automations that support security requirements like threat detection, incident containment, and network access management.
• Conduct initial incident triage; determine

Requirements

• Sweat The Right Details : you thrive in understanding the details but will also know to ruthlessly prioritize the critical issues.
• Right-Size The Solution : you recognize guidelines and framework do not always fit the problem and know how to adjust the solution for scalability not always at-scale.
• Ownership : you are outcome focused and can deftly navigate obstacles, decompose complexities, manage your time and can communicate your vision to peers and management.
• An Ideal Candidate Would...
• be a capable software engineer while also spiking in at least one of the following domain expertise:

Benefits

Additional Information

[ Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company . This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.] About Quora: Quora's mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms: Quora : a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others. Poe : a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including Claude-Opus-4.7, Nano-Banana-2, GPT-Image-2, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5-Pro, and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models. Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world. This role will be supporting both our Quora and Poe products. About the Team and Role: You will be a key member of the newly created Security Engineering Team, with a mission to keep Quora safe from security problems by building robust protections around our products, infrastructure and people. Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas.

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