Detection & CorpSec Engineer (Remote)

[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]

• Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with millions of monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.

This role will be supporting both our Quora and Poe products.

About the Team and Role:

Quora's Security team is responsible for protecting the company's most critical assets from both external threats and insider risks. We're a small, high-ownership team with a pragmatic, builder-oriented approach: we build where commercial solutions don't fit, leverage AI to work efficiently at scale, and move fast to stay ahead of real-world threats.

We're looking for a Detection & Corporate Security Engineer to strengthen both our preventative and detection capabilities across corporate and production environments. This is a genuinely hybrid role: you'll build and maintain detection systems while also owning the corporate security controls that protect our employee fleet and internal infrastructure. You'll work closely with our IT team, collaborate with existing security engineers on production-side coverage, and serve as a trusted security advisor to non-technical teams across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain a SIEM to collect and analyze logs from across corporate and production systems; write and deploy detections and alerts to identify malicious behavior

• Design and deploy canary tokens and early warning mechanisms to detect threats before they reach critical assets

• Investigate security incidents end-to-end — including malware analysis, exfiltration assessment, and timeline reconstruction — and build runbooks to scale response capabilities

• Partner with IT to define and enforce security standards across the employee device fleet, including endpoint protection, managed device requirements, OS compliance, and VPN access controls

• Drive the PoC and implementation of Zero-Trust VPN and other corporate security infrastructure

• Provide security guidance and advisory support to non-engineering functions across the organization

Minimum Requirements:

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or a closely related field

• Hands-on experience building or maintaining SIEM infrastructure and writing detection rules

• Experience with endpoint security tools (e.g. CrowdStrike or similar EDR platforms)

• Strong Python engineering skills with a track record of writing production code reviewed and shipped alongside software engineering teams

• Experience conducting security incident investigations, including malware analysis, log review, and timeline reconstruction and threat modeling

• Experience with corporate security controls, identity management, endpoint protection, and access control enforcement

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with SIEM/SOAR options such as Elastic/Splunk or alternatives

• Familiarity with identity platforms such as Okta

• Strong understanding of authentication technology such as OAuth, Yubikey and Passkey

• Experience with Zero-Trust network architecture or VPN implementation

• Demonstrated use of AI coding tools to build or automate security workflows

• Experience in a small security team or fast-paced startup environment

• Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native security tooling

Additional Information:

We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.

• US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $172,279 - $249,640 USD + equity + benefits.

• Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $220,272 - $255,347 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $205,587 - $238,324 CAD + equity + benefits.

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