Security Engineer

Kobalt Music
London
1 week ago
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Kobalt Intro:

Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.

Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Adhritz, the startup built a platform to maximise efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era and a more fair, rewarding music business for creators. Our technology enables them to access royalty payments 4x faster while also maximising the royalty collection amounts.

With over 400 employees in 12 offices worldwide, Kobalt today represents over 31,000 artists and songwriters, 700,000 songs, and 600 publishing companies. Kobalt is proud to work with artists, songwriters, and companies like Childish Gambino, Max Martin, Paul McCartney, MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.

Context:

Kobalt continues to grow 3x faster than the market and, as such, continuously focuses on scaling out its systems, products and services to cope with the increasing demand. One of the key opportunities for Kobalt is to address the masses of songwriters who are reasonably early in their careers and, as such, struggle to get representation from strong publishers. As most publishers depend on primarily manual processes, the service cost usually outweighs the revenue potential that those songwriters would generate. Through technology, Kobalt aims to reduce the cost of service for each individual songwriter, making it viable to support large numbers of songwriters at a marginal cost.

Role overview:

As a Security Engineer, youll play a pivotal role in our expanding security program, with a primary focus on securing our cloud infrastructure and the applications and services we develop. While this will be your core responsibility, youll also have the opportunity to contribute to broader security activities, collaborating with engineering teams to safeguard our entire technology stack and build a resilient security posture for our companys future.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Cloud Security:Design, implement, and maintain security controls and best practices for our AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with relevant security frameworks.
  2. Secure Software Development:Champion secure coding practices, conduct security code reviews, and integrate security testing methodologies into our CI/CD pipelines.
  3. Vulnerability Management:Review vulnerability reports, prioritise findings, and work with teams to remediate them.
  4. Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment:Lead threat modeling exercises specifically for new cloud services and software features, and collaborate with engineering teams to address identified risks.
  5. Alerting & Incident Response:Design and implement effective alerting mechanisms, investigate security incidents with a focus on cloud and application security, and participate in table-top exercises and disaster recovery scenarios.
  6. Security Tooling:Research, evaluate, and implement new security tools and processes.
  7. Partner Collaboration:Work with external security partners to optimise alerting, reporting, and incident investigations.
  8. Penetration Testing:Coordinate penetration tests and collaborate with teams to address any identified vulnerabilities.

Ideal Candidate:

  1. Versatile Skill Set:While your primary focus will be cloud and product security, you should be comfortable and willing to engage with broader security domains when required, contributing to a holistic security approach.
  2. Strong Collaboration:Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, IT, and management.
  3. Proactive Problem Solver:Eager to identify and address security risks before they become incidents.
  4. Strong Cloud Security Expertise:Good understanding of AWS security best practices, services and security frameworks.
  5. Product Security Mindset:A strong understanding of secure software development principles, common application vulnerabilities, and methods for integrating security into the SDLC.
  6. Excellent Communication:Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  7. Self-Starter:Ability to work independently, take initiative, and manage projects with minimal supervision.

Nice to have:

  1. CSPM/CNAPP:Experience with using tools such as Orca or Wiz.
  2. Security Certifications:Relevant certifications like OSCP, OSWE, BSCP, CISSP and AWS certificates are a plus.
  3. Scripting/Automation:Experience with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

Proposed interview process:

  1. Recruiter screen (30 mins)
  2. Hiring manager call (60 mins)
  3. Tech assessment (90 mins)
  4. Culture Add (30 mins)

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