MailChimp is the world's leading email marketing service. More than 10 million people and businesses use MailChimp to design and send 1 billion emails a day. We empower small businesses with a suite of powerful and easy-to-use email, marketing automation, and analytics tools that integrate with hundreds of popular applications and services.

MailChimp is looking for an extra-paranoid, detail-oriented Application Security Engineer to join our Operations team.  You will have the opportunity to use your heroic hacking skills to protect our millions of users and their subscribers from evil-doers. Save the MailChimp universe through vigilant monitoring, relentless pen testing and superb coding solutions! You should be well-versed on security risks/vulnerabilities, how to test for these risks, and what can be done to remediate any that are found. If this sounds like you, and you'd like a chance to join the MailChimp team, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Work with Development team to examine code for potential security risks
• Promote paranoia and scare your fellow co-workers to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency
• Build internal tools that detect and respond to security issues
• Spend hours trying to break our app (also known as penetration testing)
• Review and validate vulnerabilities reported via responsible disclosure program

Requirements

• A strong passion for internet security and the desire to share that enthusiasm with others
• Solid understanding of security tools (BurpSuite, etc) and vulnerability scanners
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, and network services such as DNS, SMTP, DHCP, etc.
• Code proficiency using one or more of the following languages: PHP, Java, SQL or Python
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

MailChimp is a founder-owned, highly profitable, and private company located in the heart of Atlanta. We offer our 500+ employees an exceptional workplace, extremely competitive compensation, fully paid benefits (for employees and their families), and generous profit sharing. We hire humble, collaborative, and ambitious people, and give them endless opportunities to grow and succeed.

We love our hometown and support sustainable urban renewal. Our office is in the historic Ponce City Market, right on the Atlanta Beltline. If you'd like to be considered for this position, please apply below. We look forward to meeting you!

MailChimp is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.