Outscal Logooutscal logo

Security Engineer, Production

10 Hours ago • 5 Years + • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Niantic's Security Team seeks a senior security engineer to enhance the security of its production environment and deployments. Responsibilities include security reviews of the platform and production environments, consulting with product teams and IT, building hardened OS images, developing security tools, leading vulnerability remediation, educating engineers on security best practices, and collaborating with SRE on security measures. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills (Go, Python, Java), 5+ years of experience in a global company with cloud-centric infrastructure, and a deep understanding of cloud technologies. The role requires strong communication and teamwork skills and involves a hybrid work model with in-office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Must have:
  • Strong programming skills (Go, Python, Java)
  • 5+ years experience in cloud-centric infrastructure
  • In-depth cloud technology understanding
  • Experience building security tooling
  • Excellent communication and teamwork
Good to have:
  • Multi-cloud experience (AWS, Google Cloud)
  • Software development or project management experience

Job Details

Niantic's Security Team seeks a senior security engineer to improve the security stance of our production environment and deployments. Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of AR and other immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions. Do you want to be part of our team, and make our internal and user-facing services safer and more robust? We seek creative engineers with excellent technical judgment, strong interpersonal skills, and an eagerness to embrace new technologies.

Responsibilities

  • You perform security reviews of our platform and production environments.
  • You offer consulting services for our product teams, corporate IT, and security operations.
  • You help build up hardened in-house OS images and configurations for deployment in virtual machines and Docker / Kubernetes.
  • You build out tooling and launch high impact efforts to support the engineering organization with security topics.
  • You lead vulnerability remediation of in-house and third-party software as related to deployed production environments.
  • You help educate site reliability engineers and software engineers in security concerns, codify deployment practices across teams.
  • You collaborate with the SRE team and engineering leadership on the rollout of security measures.
  • You provide creative solutions to improve Niantic's security.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
  • Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Thursday.

Qualifications

  • You can demonstrate strong programming skills in any of Go, Python, Java.
  • You have 5+ years of experience in a global company with cloud-centric infrastructure.
  • You have an in-depth understanding of Cloud technologies.
  • You have experience building out tooling, helping engineers and improving security.
  • You have demonstrated strong communication and team skills in a distributed environment.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice. 

Plus If...

  • You have experience in multi-cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud).
  • You have software development or project management experience.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

Candidate Privacy Policy

I understand that by submitting my job application, the information I provide as part of that application will be used in accordance with Niantic’s Privacy Notice for Job Applicants and Candidates.

If required by law, by submitting my job application I consent to the processing of my information as described in that Notice, including processing information I voluntarily disclose to Niantic, such as health or medical information, race or ethnicity data, and sexual orientation data and, in limited circumstances sharing information with third parties such as references and other third parties that assist in the hiring process.

Similar Jobs

Actian - Zen Quality Assurance Engineer - Bangalore/Pune

Actian

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Backend Software Engineer - Dubai

ByteDance

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Meta - Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Meta

Austin, Texas, United States (Remote)
4 Months ago
Dream Sports - Software Development Engineer 3 - Backend (Platform)

Dream Sports

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
11 Hours ago
SmileGate - [LOST ARK] Web Programmer

SmileGate

Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (On-Site)
1 Day ago
IManage - Full Stack Senior Developer (ReactJS, NodeJS)

IManage

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Tradu - Lead Front End Developer

Tradu

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago
ByteDance - Software Engineer Intern (CDN/Edge/Traffic Platform)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
1 Day ago
The Walt Disney Company - Manager, Software Engineering(Scala)

The Walt Disney Company

Santa Monica, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

ION - Senior Technical Consultant - Endur

ION

Dallas, Texas, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Britive - SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CLOUD)

Britive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Remote)
4 Months ago
Warner Bros Games - Manager, Software Engineering - Development & Testing

Warner Bros Games

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Senior SRE Architect, Security Engineering

ByteDance

Singapore (On-Site)
4 Months ago
ByteDance - Senior Backend Software Engineer - Global E-Commerce Supply Chain Inventory

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Sigma Software - Senior Java Developer

Sigma Software

Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Netflix - Data Engineer (L5) - Games

Netflix

Los Gatos, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
NVIDIA - Software Engineering Intern - Map Tools

NVIDIA

Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Moon Active - Software Developer

Moon Active

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Skillz - Lead Data Engineer

Skillz

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

PwC - Director ADV Risk & Reg

PwC

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Google - Principal Engineer, Front End Development, Gemini

Google

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
3 Months ago
PwC - Deals tax (Senior) Manager

PwC

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Logitech - IT Service Support Intern

Logitech

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland (On-Site)
4 Months ago
PwC - Senior Associate / Manager Deals Analytics

PwC

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Tesla - Automotive Mechatronics Technician

Tesla

St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
PwC - Director – Operations and Supply Chain Management Consulting 80-100%

PwC

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
PwC - Senior Manager/ Director Beratung Gesundheitswesen 80% - 100%

PwC

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Fluence - Data Scientist

Fluence

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
PwC - Manager - Insurance Consulting (P&C Retail & Commercial)

PwC

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (On-Site)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Full Stack Development Jobs

Luxoft - Senior React Developer

Luxoft

Ukrainka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine (Remote)
3 Months ago
Nagarro - Staff Engineer, .Net Fullstack

Nagarro

(On-Site)
4 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior Software Engineer - Data Center System Bringup

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Nagarro - Senior Engineer (Java)

Nagarro

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Dream Sports - SDE 1 - Backend

Dream Sports

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Highspot - Sr. Full Stack Engineer, Training & Coaching

Highspot

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Nielsen Holdings - Software Engineering Manager - Windows\C++\.Net

Nielsen Holdings

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Next Level Business Services - Java Full Stack Developer

Next Level Business Services

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Diligent Corporation - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Diligent Corporation

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Info Stretch - Senior Engineer

Info Stretch

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
4 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Niantic inspires people to explore the world, together. Our mission is to use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. Originally formed at Google in 2011, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zurich. 

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (Hybrid)

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (Hybrid)

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (Hybrid)

Zurich, Switzerland (Hybrid)

Bellevue, Washington, United States (Hybrid)

Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)

San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)

London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)

Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Niantic

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug