TikTok

Senior Security Software Engineer, Insider Risk - Global Security Organization

TikTok$218K — $387K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Go
  • Understanding of industry data analytical capabilities and gaps
  • Strong documentation and reporting skills
  • Experience in handling confidential information
  • 5+ years working in an engineering capacity within a Security Team
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (OCI, GCP, AWS)

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic initiatives for insider threat detection
  • Develop automation tools to enhance efficiency of investigation analysts
  • Identify use-cases to mitigate insider risk for users and businesses
  • Support compliant data flows for cross-region interoperability
  • Serve as the primary technical expert on insider risk
  • Guide engineering peers to achieve impactful security outcomes
  • Collaborate globally to align and deploy detection solutions

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time, increasing with tenure
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

This is a Senior Detection Engineer role within Global Security's Insider Risk team. In this role, you are responsible for contributions to strategic oversight, leadership, and technical direction of the detection engineering strategy that supports Insider Risk's discovery, detection, investigation, and response workflows. There are two major deliverables for the team, automation development and detection engineering. Automation development focuses on ideating and creating tooling solutions and automated workflows to support investigation analysts and remediate crucial Insider Risk issues. Detection engineering focuses on the creation and maintenance of proactive logic to proactively identify inside risks with high fidelity and at scale to prevent harm to users and to the company. This role will work cross functionally with all business organizations to develop team specific detections to ensure comprehensive insider risk coverage. - Ideate and implement strategic projects in conjunction with Insider Risk engineers and analysts that range from Junior to Senior levels, to build out detections, tools, and logging infrastructure via Python, Apache Hive SQL, Go, etc. Create detections to find instances of insider threat. - Act as a force multiplier across the business by optimizing processes and gaining alignment across stakeholders. A Senior Detection Engineer will be responsible for raising the productivity and efficiency of analysts doing manual investigations and remediations. - Help stakeholders identify relevant use-cases for insider risk while mitigating risk for users and the business. - Maintain and support compliant data flows and automation access to allow for interoperability across various business regions. - Be the go-to technical subject matter expert on security, compliance, and assurance topics that touch insider risk teams. - Help to provide support and guidance to high performing engineering peers and analysts to achieve positive business outcomes that protect both our users and the company. - Work with cross functional teams globally to ensure alignment, collect feedback on automations, and deploy solutions to get cross functional adoption.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Go - Understanding of current industry data analytical capabilities and shortcomings - Strong technical documentation and reporting skills - Ability to handle confidential information with discretion - Experience working in a Security Team Preferred Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or industry equivalent work experience in Computer Science or Computer Engineering - 5+ years of industry experience as an engineer - Working knowledge of cloud platforms (i.e. OCI, GCP, AWS, etc) - Knowledge of social media processes and products, as well as current gaps that can be exploited by threat actors - Knowledge of online deceptive and manipulative behavior. Knowledge of the signals of specific threat actors, their cross-platform tactics, and how they evolve or change over time. - Demonstrates excellent organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills - Works well within time/budget constraints to solve problems or meet objectives - Ability to communicate technical concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $218400 - $387600 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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