Security Engineer at DNAnexus

Our customers depend on the secure and reliable operation of the DNAnexus platform to run their business.  From clinical research to large-scale multi-omics computation, our platform is essential to tackle some of the most exciting opportunities in human health.  With DNAnexus, organizations can stay a step ahead in leveraging genomics to achieve their goals.  DNAnexus brings it all together on a single secure, resilient, and  scalable platform. Key Company Highlights • Founded in 2009 by leading Stanford genomic scientists, headquartered in Mountain View, CA, 140+ employees. • Generating significant revenue, global footprint, ramping rapidly; with Enterprise customers including Ancestry, Regeneron, Natera, Johns Hopkins, FDA, Myriad Genetics, St Jude among others. • FedRAMP Moderate ATO (“Authorized-To-Operate”) platform with current certifications in ISO27001, and HITRUST. • Engaged on a 5 year, $20M contract with the FDA to power the precisionFDA collaborative omics environment in the cloud. • Well funded by Tier-1 investors including Blackstone Group, Foresite Capital, Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures and TPG Capital, among others. • Massive, evolving market opportunity that hasn’t been adequately addressed yet. • Passionate and proven executive leadership team with deep genomics, big data/analytics, and cloud expertise.   The role You will be an essential part of our Security Engineering team and a critical player within our larger Security & Technology organization. Through close collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, IT, and Detection & Response colleagues, you will help address security concerns in our codebase, code pipelines, and cloud environments. You will help threat model systems, remediate vulnerabilities, and conduct security testing to make DNAnexus products more resilient, reliable and secure. You will also have a key role in our incident response process by responding to incidents and providing control recommendations to prevent fraud on our platform. In order to be successful, a close understanding of how Software Engineering works and empathy with your colleagues will be crucial. As a security team, we strive to solve problems with an engineering mindset and with a strong understanding of the business context. The problems you will solve: • You will help design, build, and tune security tooling that improves security of code and CI/CD pipelines while maintaining code deployment velocity. • You will help design, implement, and maintain scalable security controls for our cloud environments without impacting deployment speeds and platform stability. • You will help define, implement, and enforce our AI security policies and procedures. • You will aid our Product Managers in developing secure and resilient product designs by addressing risks you’ve identified through threat modeling. • You will help maintain our vulnerability management, bug bounty, and penetration testing programs • Most importantly, you’ll develop close, collaborative relationships with other technical experts in our Product, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, IT, and Detection & Response functions.