Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Security Infrastructure

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become a trusted global digital public square, committed to minimal censorship within legal boundaries. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

  

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Security Infrastructure 
Location: San Francisco, CA 
Salary Range: $162,000 - $297,000

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X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.

Who We Are:

The Security Infrastructure team is a part of the Infosec Org and focuses on executing large engineering efforts on the X tech stack that addresses gaps in our overall security capabilities. The team builds and owns core security services and libs that promote security by default in our platform. The team is also investing in building services to improve X’s detection capabilities by leveraging both internal and third-party intelligence.

What You'll Do: 

As a Software Engineer in Security Infrastructure, you will build distributed systems, and framework libraries to provide security defaults, along with tools to detect security threats in our products and API's

Who You Are:
You enjoy new challenges and are passionate about continually pushing the boundaries of scale. You take satisfaction in building resilient, high-performance, and thoroughly tested systems that can power the most business-critical applications. You want to learn, work with, and contribute to cutting-edge open-source technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or advanced Degree in Computer Science or closely related field

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with an expertise in software engineering standards (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation).

• Solid experience working with distributed systems. 

• Proficiency with object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.

• Good understanding of JVM based architecture.

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills

• Strong and effective communication skills.

• Basic understanding of Security fundamentals, e.g. how TLS works.