Software Engineer II - Security Engineering

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Cyber Security

Job Summary

Job Description

SurveyMonkey is seeking a Software Engineer II specializing in Security Engineering. This role involves developing a wide range of services and tools such as rate limiters, secret stores, and data anonymizers. The engineer will work with various teams across the company to ensure world-class security standards and data privacy practices. Responsibilities include creating API-driven backend services using Python and Terraform, assisting application teams with service deployment and adoption, collecting feedback for new tools, reviewing threat models, and participating in code reviews. The position offers opportunities to work with both front-end and back-end technologies.
Must have:
  • 2+ years of experience in application development
  • Proficient in Python or equivalent
  • Cloud environment development and deployment experience (especially AWS)
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience (especially Terraform)
  • Cryptography libraries experience or familiarity with cryptographic operations
Good to have:
  • NodeJS experience
  • Experience with web application security risks (e.g., OWASP Top 10)
  • Familiarity with privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)

Job Details

SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-powered technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.

Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com.

What we’re looking for

The Security Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer with experience in or a deep interest in software security and data privacy.  Our team works with teams across the company to help ensure that SurveyMonkey’s security standards and practices are world-class.You’ll have the opportunity to develop a wide range of services and tools like rate limiters, secret stores, data anonymizers, and other foundational elements of security and data privacy.  These services are used by a wide variety of internal teams, so you will have an opportunity to work with front-end and back-end technologies.

What you’ll be working on

  • Working in a mix of python and Terraform most days, with shell scripting and JavaScript on occasion.
  • Creating API-driven back end services that are used across many of SurveyMonkey’s engineering teams.
  • Helping application teams deploy and use our services, and collecting ideas from those teams for new tools.
  • Assisting in reviewing threat models for new application features.
  • Participating in code reviews.

We’d love to hear from people with

  • 2+ years of experience with application development
  • Proficient in Python or equivalent; NodeJS experience a plus
  • Hands-on experience developing for and deploying to cloud environments, especially AWS
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, especially Terraform
  • Experience with cryptography libraries, or familiarity with cryptographic operations like encryption, hashing, and digital signatures.
  • Experience with web application security risks and control (e.g., OWASP Top 10) or privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA, etc is a major plus

SurveyMonkey believes in-person collaboration is valuable for building relationships, fostering community, and enhancing our speed and execution in problem-solving and decision-making. As such, you will be required to work from a SurveyMonkey office up to 1 day per week.

#LI - Hybrid

Why SurveyMonkey? We’re glad you asked 

SurveyMonkey is a place where the curious come to grow.  We’re building an inclusive workplace where people of every background can excel no matter their time zone. At SurveyMonkey, we weave employee feedback and our core values into everything we do to create forward-looking benefits policies, employee programs, and an award-winning culture, including our annual holiday refresh, our annual week of service, learning and development opportunities like Curiosity Week, and our C.H.O.I.C.E Fund

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

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