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Information Security Engineer

Are you someone who is passionate about understanding behavior of malware, building anomaly detection rules, threat hunting or digital forensics? Do you want to design, build or optimize solutions to identify suspicious activities and threats?

Yelp is looking for an Information Security (InfoSec) Engineer to keep us safe and sane as our team expands to numerous offices around the world. It's an opportunity to have impact and broad scope protecting Yelp's corporate infrastructure, employees, and systems across multiple site locations.

As an InfoSec Engineer, you will work on improving our threat detection & response capabilities. Our awesome corporate security engineers bring a software engineering mindset to security, and build automated systems for DFIR that work at scale. You will also partner with our corporate infrastructure and IT teams to help architect our future authentication, identity management, and network security systems.

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Where You Come In:

  • You will lead threat modeling, mitigation discovery, and manual/automated verification of mitigations.
  • You will build tools and infrastructure for automating incident response.
  • You will set policies & best security practices for IT, Infrastructure, and other internal organizations and third party integrations.
  • You will create, validate and audit access control policies for Yelp systems.
  • You will lead security education across the organization.
  • You will participate in incident response, and forensics collection and analysis.
  • You will coordinate resolution of security issues with other Engineering and IT teams.
  • You will develop monitoring and alerting capabilities for Yelp internal security systems.
  • You will collaborate with teams inside of Yelp to deploy new security-related tools and processes across the organization.

What it Takes to Succeed:

  • You have at least 2 years of professional experience working to secure consumer websites, mobile applications, or large corporate IT infrastructure is a requirement.
  • You have software development experience in Python, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, or similar.
  • You have exposure to digital forensics and incident response.
  • You have corporate network penetration testing experience.
  • You are passionate for educating others about security best practices.
  • You expect to participate in 24/7 incident response (required)
  • You hold a BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • You have experience with PCI, SOX, and avoiding draconian compliance regimes (a plus)
  • You have experience conducting third party assessments of software vendors and SaaS apps (a plus)
  • You have threat hunting experience in large corporate infrastructure environment (a plus)
  • You have Windows, macOS or Linux administration experience (a plus)
  • You have security certifications, such as CISSP (a plus)

What You'll Get:

  • Effective your first day: Full medical, vision, and dental
  • 15 days PTO (increases with tenure) and 11 paid holidays
  • Up to 14 weeks of parental leave
  • Monthly wellness subsidy
  • Access to fully stocked Yelp kitchens
  • Flexible spending account
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan



At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 415-969-8488.

Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Job ID: c1a44e82-b615-4084-b065-b74094a2c6f8
Employment Type: Other

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