Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Shopify
Company Description
Securing infrastructure is a core part of engineering at Shopify. The Infrastructure Security Team cares deeply about securing and supporting our production environments, and about removing the toil associated with this sort of work.
The Infrastructure Security Team, made up of the Multi-Tenancy Security Team and the Software Supply Chain Security Team, designs, builds, and deploys technology that safeguards our merchants and their data. This allows Shopify’s engineering teams to build world-class ecommerce software in secure environments, and that makes commerce safer for everyone. We’re a team that services a large organization, maximizing our impact by creating low-friction automated solutions that enable other teams to do their work and deliver impact to merchants in the safest way possible. These efforts have let us build collaborative relationships founded on high trust and empathy throughout the Shopify engineering organization. At the core of all our efforts, we endeavour to make the secure way easy, and the easy way secure.
This team is filled with highly skilled and engaged folks working to solve high-impact, interesting problems. If what you’ve seen so far has caught your fancy, you must be wondering what we’d expect of you.
Job Description
In this role you will:
Your focus will be building security at Shopify. Our scale is massive - Shopify powers over 1 million merchants in over 175 countries worldwide.
You will have influence and will contribute to the overall strategy of our Infrastructure Security team. It isn’t easy, but that’s one of the reasons we find it particularly rewarding.
You will lead the designing and building out of security for merchants globally. We’re building out some of the most innovative cloud platform security around (we’d love to tell you more!).
Approach our work from a place of empathy and enablement to Shopify’s ambitions.
Our Technology stack:
Falco: A cloud native Intrusion Detection System that gives us full visibility into what our workloads are doing.
Google Cloud: Infrastructure as a Service so we can focus on our apps instead of computer hardware.
Kubernetes: Shopify runs on Kubernetes. This provides many advantages like security constraints, auto-scaling, fault tolerance, and much more.
Terraform: Declarative configuration for all of our infrastructure.
Qualifications
You'll need to have:
We know securing every flavor of infrastructure is a lot to ask, and you don't need to have deep experience in all of the technologies we use to apply. We’ve mapped out some of the different paths you could have taken to get where you are today.
If your background is more aligned with infrastructure, architecture, or operations work, we’re looking for experience like:
Strong systems administration (you’re able to talk about the differences between virtual machines, Docker and Linux containers).
Building a robust monitoring, logging, and alert management systems.
Architecting and building solutions for problems such as: least-privilege permissions management and secrets management.
Securing containerized applications using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
If your background is more aligned with software development, building out tooling, and automation, we’re looking for experience like:
Strong programming foundations (we use a lot of Ruby and Go, but we believe that good programmers can work in any language).
Building and rolling out tooling to help developers deploy secure software with the least friction possible.
Regardless of the path you took to get here, some key things apply across the board!
Act as a technical leader for the team and a mentor to other security engineers.
Great problem solving skills. You like a good puzzle, and aren't too attached to any given solution.
Long-term architectural thinking. You can simultaneously keep the desired end-state in mind, while optimising current processes and practices as we move toward that goal.
Enthusiasm for remote collaboration.
Bonus experience:
Systems security-related hobbies. You’ve played CTFs/war games or solved similar security puzzles. You know what binary exploitations are, how shell injections work, and how to secure a system. You might not have time to participate in these activities now, but you certainly enjoyed them in the past.
A love of all things Security Operations. Complex systems and software are where your brain thrives. You excel at finding and fixing security concerns and weaknesses in them
Intimate understanding of logs and their usefulness. You know that the information is there, and you always want to make it more discoverable (e.g. building usable alerting and reporting pipelines).
Experience with any of the following: Kubernetes, Terraform, Vulnerability and Patch Management, Identity and Access Management, Incident Handling and Response.
Contributing to the open source community (e.g. kubeaudit, voucher, krane).
Additional Information
Check out what's been keeping the team busy:
Bringing code signing to the cloud through Binary Authorization and contributing these efforts back to the community
Our in-house built just-in-time permissions management system clouddo
Shopify is now permanently remote, and working towards a future that is digital by default. Learn more about what this can mean for you.
Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.
At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.
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