As a software company, security is incredibly important to us. Our software is used by 30,000+ customers, including The Chicago Bulls, Sony Electronics, Indiana University, Make-a-wish Foundation, Edelman, Subaru, and many others who rely on Sprout to create stronger relationships with their customers through social media.
Our security team ensures that we are designing platforms, implementing tools and building products with security in mind. This team owns the security posture of our entire organization, including our development, production environments, and internal concerns.
As a security engineer at Sprout, we're looking for someone who knows more than how to run a scanning tool: you'll leverage your knowledge of distributed systems to work and collaborate with engineers and IT staff to increase the protective, monitoring, reporting and mitigation capabilities of the Security team. You will help establish a risk based pipeline, manage and own cross-organizational projects and work to continuously improve our security posture. As a cloud native company, you'll be involved in securing our cloud environments and working with SaaS-based tooling.
If you are fluent in risk identification and mitigation and stay up to date on the latest security threats and trends in our industry , we'd love to talk with you!
Qualifications
These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:

• 3+ years of information security experience
• Understanding of computer networking and systems (compute, storage, OS -- especially Linux) and their interactions

Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate:

• Information security qualification such as CISSP or GSEC or equivalent
• 2+ years of programming experience (Python, Shell, Go)
• Experience performing and improving security operations (including investigations and incidents) and tooling (SIEM, SOAR, Scanning toolkits)

Within 1 month, you will:

• Experience Sprout's in-depth onboarding, covering everything from our company mission and values, hearing directly from executives and founders, to deep training on our products and the value that Sprout delivers to our customers
• Make a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, align on expectations for your role, plant goalposts for your career, and learn about Sprout's approach to security
• Be introduced to Sprout's security stakeholders across the organization
• Learn our existing tooling and begin monitoring the status of our environments
• Collaborate regularly with teammates and members of our infrastructure and development teams and get up to speed on our current and future initiatives
• Get regular team feedback on your approach to managing and engaging our existing risks and security capabilities

Within 3 months, you will:

• Work with your manager and teammates to create and prioritize quarterly team goals
• Begin to deconstruct larger security projects into smaller, more manageable deliverables
• Start to understand the breadth and depth of technologies and tools under the team's purview
• Review, refine and triage alerts triggered from our IDS, vulnerability management tools,and other monitoring platforms
• Participate in Security on-call rotation
• Build connections with members from other teams through active networking and community building to help foster a security-first culture

Within 6 months, you will:

• Improve the security tooling and telemetry used at Sprout
• Identify security gaps within our systems, present plans to mitigate risks, and work with teams to get them prioritized within their workstreams
• Generate and improve upon internal and external security policies and standards
• Help drive internal security awareness training and phishing programs
• Regularly evaluate and report security health and recommendations
• Have your first performance conversation with your manager, where you'll discuss your accomplishments in your role and work together to build goals for your professional growth
• Partner with engineering, IT and other teams to continuously improve our ability to deliver reliable and secure services

Within 12 months, you will:

• Be a go-to expert and security representative within Sprout
• Help define and build the security roadmap for future work
• Work and effectively communicate with other groups across the organization to ensure big-picture alignment and encourage cross-team collaboration
• Own cross-organizational projects, demonstrating project management skills, consensus building, and strong leadership
• Have opportunities to contribute to in-house technical presentations, employee onboarding, and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout employees
• Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change Sprout Security in beneficial ways that we haven't considered yet

Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.
About Sprout Social Sprout Social powers open communication between individuals, brands and communities through elegant, sophisticated software. We are relentless about solving hard problems for our customers and committed to both customer and team success. Our team's shared belief in Sprout's mission promotes a culture of openness, empowerment and fun.
We're proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment-your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team

• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago's Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. For those that prefer an office setting, this role may be based in our Chicago or Seattle locations. If you prefer to work from your home, we can accommodate that for many locations across the United States. We are not set up in all states, however, so please take a look at the drop down box in our application to see whether your state is listed.
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