Senior Security Engineer

Position: [Wattpad] Senior Security Engineer
Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. A leading global webnovel platform, Wattpad has democratized storytelling for a new generation of diverse Gen Z writers and their fans. Wattpad is part of WEBTOON Entertainment’s IP & Creator Ecosystem, where approximately 155 million monthly active users discover incredible stories in multiple formats. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling with our global team, and write your next chapter with us!

Wattpad is part of the WEBTOON Entertainment family of brands, home to some of the world's largest storytelling platforms. With approximately 155 million monthly active users, WEBTOON Entertainment’s IP & Creator Ecosystem of aligned brands and platforms include WEBTOON, Wattpad--the world’s leading webnovel platform--WEBTOON Productions, Studio N, Studio LICO, WEBTOON Unscrolled, LINE MANGA, and eBookJapan, among others. To read more about our family of Brands, check out our website .

As a Sr. Security Engineer, you’ll be working closely with the Engineering, Data, and Product teams to embed security into the evolution of our systems. You will play a pivotal role in protecting our organization's data, systems, and networks while ensuring our engineering velocity remains high.

As a senior member of the Security Team, you will work to drive the security vision for the department and will be responsible for influencing thinking across multiple teams to improve how we build secure software in general.

Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles tens of thousands of requests every second. You’ll be securing our AWS cloud infrastructure and helping us mature our application security program. Our security stack relies on AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, and WAF for infrastructure protection, while leveraging Datadog and Splunk for observability and threat detection. We are heavily invested in infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and are looking to automate security workflows using Python and Git Hub Actions.

What You'll Do:

Designing, implementing, and monitoring security controls in our AWS cloud infrastructure to balance protection with scalability.

Influencing the technical direction of the Engineering & Data department by introducing secure development practices and threat modeling.

Acting as a force multiplier by building security automation workflows and "guardrails" that allow teams to ship code safely and quickly.

Directly solving complex security challenges, including incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation of vulnerabilities.

Assisting teams in implementing access management and compliance controls, compliance (SOC 2/ISO 27001), and risk governance.

Building and maturing our application security program, partnering with engineering teams to triage findings from our Vulnerability Disclosure Program.

Collaborating with engineers on implementing security best practices to help raise the security bar across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of work experience in Sec Ops, Cloud Security, Dev Sec Ops , or similar security-focused role

AWS security expertise:
Hands-on experience with Security Hub, Guard Duty, Inspector, AWS WAF, and IAM policy management

SIEM experience highly desirable:
Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms (query development, alert tuning, incident investigation)

Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code security:
Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar

Experience with containers and Kubernetes (EKS preferred) including security hardening

Strong scripting and automation skills:
Python, Bash, Power Shell

Experience securing CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions strongly preferred)

Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and D3

FEND frameworks

Understanding of enterprise and cloud network security architecture and controls

SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 compliance experience

Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity - ability to define and execute on loosely-scoped problems

Balanced communication style - proactive collaborator when needed, deep-focus engineer when required

Excellent written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience building…