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Urgent! Senior Security Engineer I Job Opening In Boston – Now Hiring Compass

Senior Security Engineer I



Job description

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world.

Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

Engineering @ Compass 

Compass has built the first modern end-to-end real estate platform by integrating agents, buyers and sellers through technology.

Until Compass, no one has achieved the blend of the Natural Intelligence that hundreds of thousands of enterprising real estate agents bring to this market, with the “Artificial Intelligence” that cloud, mobile and AI technologies enable.

We are building AI to empower AI - Artificial Intelligence to empower Agent Intelligence.


As one of the fastest growing technology companies of our generation, in an industry larger than any other, we have an opportunity and obligation to build a world-class engineering team and the operating platform that will transform real estate.


Security @ Compass 


We are hands-on security engineers helping to build secure, resilient, and scalable web platforms.

We work with a diverse set of teams to provide and support transparent and automated security tooling and services.

We architect secure web products, perform simulated attacks, identify weaknesses, and work with teams to remediate and protect our products.

You will help lead our efforts to build security as a service to drive safe-by-default environments and drive customer trust.


What you will do:

  • ​​This role involves a combination of partnership, hands-on engineering, infrastructure security, and automation.

  • Enable autonomy for engineers to develop securely through safe-by-default tooling, configuration, and policy.

    All while ensuring engineering velocity is maintained by automating security requirements and building guardrails.

  • Design and implement scalable systems and controls to secure cloud infrastructure

  • Collaborate with engineering and security teams to drive deployment of security enhancements and control changes across our cloud infrastructure and development platform.

  • Build enduring and high-trust partnerships with colleagues across Engineering

  • Help investigate and respond to security events, then work with teams to guide and improve their practices

  • Be a go-to expert for cloud security, coming up with smart ways to keep things secure while still moving fast to meet urgent needs.

  • Participate in code reviews, write tests, and contribute to documentation and operational excellence initiatives.
  • Who you are: 

  • You take an automation-first approach to everything you do.

    You understand the challenges of scale for security and leverage automation whenever possible

  • A proactive mindset, with the ability to identify and address security gaps or inefficiencies through automation and tooling.

  • Expertise in the security of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP).

  • Proficient in a programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, Golang, etc.).

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to think critically and objectively assess security risks.

  • Excitement about collaborating with cross-functional teams to build secure, reliable systems that scale globally.

  • Able to communicate about security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques in an accessible way to a variety of audiences

  • Comfortable teaching and leading development teams toward better security outcomes
  • Nice to have:

  • Knowledge of containerization, and orchestration technology such as Docker and Kubernetes

  • Experience in GCP and multi-cloud networks and infrastructure, and designing cloud agnostic systems.
  • Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $113,000-$171,000; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

    Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits.

    Base pay is based on market location.

    Minimum wage for the position will always be met.


    Perks that You Need to Know About:


    Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions).

    Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.


    Required Skill Profession

    Computer Occupations



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