Instagram · 2 hours ago
Product Security Engineer, Instagram
Instagram is seeking a product-focused security engineer to enable product teams to develop features with a focus on security and user safety. The role involves collaborating with engineers on threat modeling, conducting security reviews, and providing guidance to developers to prevent vulnerabilities.
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Responsibilities
Threat Modeling and Security Architecture: Work directly with product managers and technical leads on threat models and security architecture for novel Instagram features or products
Security Reviews: Perform manual design and implementation reviews of web, mobile, and native code
Developer Guidance: Provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities
Automated Analysis and Secure Frameworks: Work with other security teams to improve Instagram's static and dynamic analysis and frameworks to scale coverage
Bug Bounty: Help provide technical guidance to our world class bug bounty program and independent security researchers
Industry Impact: Push the industry forward through conference talks and open source projects to contribute broadly to security for the world
Qualification
Required
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience finding vulnerabilities in interpreted languages (Python, PHP)
Extensive, proven experience in threat modeling and secure systems design
Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities
Preferred
Product software engineering or product management experience
Experience in security consulting or other leadership-facing security advisory roles
Familiarity with cybersecurity investigations, abuse operations, and/or security incident response
Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, bug bounty, etc.)
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks. It is a sub-organization of Meta.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$57.5MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalBenchmark
2012-04-09Acquired
2012-04-05Series B· $50M
2011-02-02Series A· $7M
Leadership Team
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