Software Engineer - Security

Yelp, London, England, United Kingdom

Connecting people with great local businesses

Yelp is looking for security engineers to keep us safe and sane as we build out our desktop, mobile, business owner, and administrative websites. Additionally, Yelp’s future growth in the transactions space has many security implications, both in traditional application security as well as in privacy controls and fraud and risk analysis.

Does having a tremendous impact and broad scope of protecting Yelp’s data, employees, and our millions of users excite you? As a Software Engineer in Security, you will be responsible for partnering with different engineering teams at Yelp to help build features, tools, and libraries to enable security by default. You’ll also work to identify and fix vulnerabilities in the products we build, as well as work with external security researchers through our public bug bounty program.

Where You Come In:

Develop and deploy authentication and security related components of Yelp’s website and mobile apps.
Create and maintain libraries used across multiple Yelp apps for secure communication and data storage.
Partner with mobile, frontend, and backend teams to architect and develop features in a secure, and scalable manner.
Validate and remediate vulnerabilities reported in our bug bounty.

What it Takes to Succeed:

While previous application security experience is a plus, we are looking for strong software generalists first, with an interest in application security.
Understanding of HTML5, current, and emerging browser security models.
3-5 years of software engineering experience.
BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
Solid grasp of languages like: Python, Java, Javascript, Puppet, Objective-C, or Swift.

What You'll Get:

Full responsibility for projects from day one, an awesome team, and a dynamic work environment
Competitive salary with equity in the company, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase program
25 days paid holiday initially, rising to 29 with service
Private health insurance, including dental and vision
Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays
Regular 3-day Hackathons and weekly learning groups, always with interesting topics
£58 per month toward any exercise of your choice
Quarterly offsites

Yelp values diversity. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to Age, Disability, Gender Reassignment, Marriage or Civil Partnership, Pregnancy and Maternity, Race, Religion or Belief, Sex.

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About Yelp

Yelp connects people with great local businesses. Our users have contributed approximately 127 million cumulative reviews of almost every type of local business, from restaurants, boutiques and salons to dentists, mechanics, plumbers and more. These reviews are written by people using Yelp to share their everyday local business experiences, giving voice to consumers and bringing “word of mouth” online.