Dovetail is the world’s leading customer insights hub, helping thousands of teams build better products. From user feedback and customer interviews to support tickets and sales calls, Dovetail helps you uncover insights fast—no matter the method. Driven by ambition and innovation, the Dovetail team is customer-obsessed and on a mission to help the world improve the quality of every thing. Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Porsche, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first with Dovetail and improve the quality of their thing.

Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100 employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco.

As a security engineer at Dovetail, you'll play a key role in improving and maturing our security measures. The role will involve cross-team collaboration, improving tooling and swiftly responding to any security issues that arise.

What you'll do

• Join our Security team. You will be a critical member of the security team working closely with product and platform engineering teams to help mature Dovetail’s security posture whilst being a key part of the Security incident response team.
• Help mature Dovetail’s security detection and response capabilities. Develop and manage new Security monitoring and automation tools to enhance Dovetail’s detection and response capabilities whilst working with the platform engineering team to improve our vulnerability management processes.
• Facilitate risk assessments and mitigations. Identify and evaluate security risks and work with the broader Dovetail team to implement and drive effective mitigations. Be a part of the security review process on new tools and Dovetail’s features and products.
• Promote and foster a culture of security awareness. Part take in running our general security awareness by working with and mentoring the wider Dovetail team in building a stronger culture of security awareness.

Your background

• Experience with cloud security technologies. You will have experience with AWS’s suite of security tools, such as Guardduty, Inspector, Security Hub and Detective. Experience with typescript, EKS/Kubernetes and infrastructure as code (Pulumi or Terraform) is ideal.
• You are pragmatic and flexible. Like your new teammates, you're used to doing what's necessary to get the job done. You'll need to be comfortable with ambiguity, operate with high independence, collaborate effectively, be resourceful in solving problems, and be able to adjust to shifting deadlines and project goals.
• When you do it, you nail it. You share our keen eye for quality. You don't half-ass your work, instead what you ship is top-notch. You cut scope before cutting quality.
• Excellent, concise communicator. You can easily convey your thoughts, opinions, and feelings with your security and other engineering teams and have the ability to articulate effort vs impact tradeoffs.

At Dovetail, we’re passionate about building and fostering an environment where every team member feels supported and valued. We celebrate individualism, welcoming everyone to show up as their authentic selves every day. It’s no secret that diversity builds the best teams, large or small, so we highly encourage applications from people who identify as part of an under-represented group. Please take a peek at Dovetail’s commitment to Program 50/50 and hear why we’re officially a Great Place to Work on our careers page for more info!

Benefits

• Equity for everyone. We put our money where our mouth is. No matter your role, we provide equity for all along with competitive salaries. See your investment grow as Dovetail grows.
• Annual retreats. We aim to go away every year to celebrate achievements and have some fun as a team. New Zealand followed by the Whitsundays… where to next?
• Equal parental leave. We offer an inclusive framework of 20 weeks equal paid leave to support new parents. Every family is unique, so you make the call how you’d like to take care of what matters most.
• Modern and pet friendly offices. Bring your pooch to our modern, ergonomic offices in the heart of Surry Hills. We also host monthly events for the whole team to connect and unwind.
• Flexible work-life balance. We love our bright and shiny offices, celebrating wins together, and working on super collaborative and cross-functional projects. While our teams love coming together IRL, we also let you make the call on how and where you want to work.
• Develop and grow. Take a course, attend a lunch and learn, or head to a conference to help you grow! We love to support you any way we can, so expect Dovetail to be your #1 fan when it comes to achieving your career goals.
• Extra paid days off. Enjoy ad-hoc KitKat days to take a step back and spend it however you like. Hit the beach, spend time with your family, pick up that hobby you’ve been meaning to try, or anything in between!
• Health is wealth. We believe that everyone has the right to mental wellness and support. So every Dovetailer has access to Uprise (Employee Assistance Program) for themselves as well as their families.
• Floating public holidays. Public holidays don’t always align with when you want to take leave. So the choice is yours when it comes to swapping public holiday leave for a later date. You do you!