security engineer

Social Discovery Group operates a global portfolio of social entertainment platforms designed to connect people across different cultures. The company develops products that facilitate virtual interaction and address social isolation, maintaining a presence in over 150 countries with a diverse team of professionals.

• Improve and maintain perimeter and network-layer defenses including WAF, Rate Limiting, Anti-bot, and DDoS mitigation;
• Secure product APIs against abuse and anomalous traffic;
• Strengthen authentication, authorization, and access control at the product level;
• Run the Vulnerability Management process including identification, prioritization, and remediation tracking;
• Coordinate external pentests and drive remediation of findings;
• Lead Incident Response for product security incidents;
• Build detection and response processes in collaboration with the monitoring team;
• Contribute to Fraud & Trust and Safety initiatives;
• Protect customer data at the product level through access control, encryption, and masking;
• Run the Security Champions program to train product teams on secure development;
• Manage the Bug Bounty program.

• 5+ Years in information security, including 3+ years in product security;
• Hands-on experience operating a WAF such as Wallarm, Akamai, or Cloudflare;
• Expertise in API security and API gateway experience;
• Experience with anti-bot solutions including fingerprinting and behavioral detection;
• Practical understanding of DDoS mitigation at L3–L7;
• Experience running a Vulnerability Management process including CVSS, prioritization, and remediation SLAs;
• Experience coordinating pentest projects and working with pentest reports;
• Understanding of OAuth/OIDC, session management, and JWT;
• Practical SQL and Elasticsearch skills for querying logs and data;
• Nice to have: OWASP API Security Top 10 knowledge.

• 28 Calendar days of vacation per year;
• 7 Wellness days per year;
• Referral bonuses up to $5000;
• 50% Reimbursement for professional training and international conferences;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• Health benefits: compensation up to $1000 gross per year for medical insurance or doctor's fees if not eligible for corporate insurance;
• Workplace organization: reimbursement of workplace costs up to $1000 gross once every 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system for merchandise and activities.