# Who We Are

UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).

We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join UnitedMasters!

# What You'll Do

This is a key technical leadership role. In this role you will be the critical person in defining and executing on the company vision for building a more secure music distribution platform. You will:

• Help establish security best practices across UnitedMasters engineering.
• Analyze our security posture, identify gaps, and work closely with both development teams and operations teams to ensure strong security.
• Lead complex security projects from design through implementation, and work with engineering leadership to ensure effective ongoing maintenance.
• Participate in design and proposal reviews for both software and infrastructure projects, ensuring that security considerations are taken into account.
• Lead and mentor junior security engineers, and coach other engineers on best security practices.
• Work with engineering leadership to set the engineering roadmap and make investments to keep the company systems secure.

# Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of application security, system security, secure coding best practices, common attack patterns, and exploitation techniques. 
• Ability to analyze code from other engineers, cloud resources, and terraform configurations to identify the potential security threats.
• A teacher and collaborator: capable of outlining technical security guidelines and coaching stakeholders across multiple teams to ensure they are followed.
• A builder and implementer: uses programming and configuration expertise to lead hands-on execution of security projects. 
• Excellent communication skills. Can explain complex technical concepts simply for others to understand and learn from.
• Excellent technical documentation skills.

# Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years of security engineering experience in distributed systems at scale.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working on cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and its security services suite.

# Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multiple programming languages.
• Has been a software developer and has deep empathy for the software development lifecycle.

About UnitedMasters 

UnitedMasters empowers brands and artists to forge authentic connections with audiences at scale by bringing together culture, technology and storytelling. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their Masters and up to 100% of royalties. UnitedMasters has over 1.3 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly. Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward. In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly. With $170M raised to date and valued at $550M, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others.
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