About SmartNews
News can change the world, save lives, and bring us all closer together through empathy and understandingâbut not if no one reads it. Out of the hundreds of millions of articles and posts published, how do we deliver the information that matters the most?
Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. We provide news that matters to millions of users thanks to our unique machine learning technology and relationships with over 3,000 global publisher partners. Our SmartNews app, available on iOS and Android, is currently used in over 150 countries worldwide.
But weâre only just getting started, and thatâs why we need someone like you.
If youâre looking for a company thatâs small enough so that your contributions have a visible impact on the company and product but large enough to have you tackling exciting and challenging problems, then SmartNews is the place for you. Join us and wake up every day energized, knowing that youâre delivering the news people need.
Responsibilities
- Support âshift leftâ security by implementing third parties and building scripts to support modern security best practices into self-service tooling
- Work with engineering stakeholders to securely design products and fix security issues
- Create workflows and processes for the intake, triage, and resolution of security issues
- Execute proactive threat modeling and implement measures to strengthen the preventative controls of cloud infrastructure
- Work with both internal and external stakeholders to fix known vulnerabilities
- Coordinate our response procedures during active product security incidents
- Empower engineers by conducting regular developer security training
- Bring enthusiasm for working at a fast-paced startup
Minimum Qualifications
- Solid understanding of the most common web application security risks as listed by the CWE Top 25 and OWASP Top 10
- DevSecOps and pipeline security implementation experience (SAST/SCA/DAST/etc.)
- Microservice architecture experience, including K8 and Docker
- Application security hands-on experience (pentesting, bug bounties, etc)
- Ability to perform root cause analysis on past security incidents to recommend improvements
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, or Ruby
- Practical knowledge of AWS cloud services and structure
- English language fluency
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Business-level or higher proficiency in Japanese and/or Chinese
- Program Management or Data Science experience
- Strong knowledge of the AWS suite of security-related services with a certification as an AWS Security Specialist
- Experience with the operation of cloud-based infrastructure and API security using services such as AWS EC2 security groups, AWS Web Application Firewall, or AWS Shield
- Past work experience with cloud-based security services like AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Detective, or AWS Config
- Skills in infrastructure-as-code technologies, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Exploit development, Red Team, or reverse engineering experience
Perks and Benefits at the SmartNews Tokyo Office
- Support program for employeesâ self-development and well-being
- Healthy lunches are prepared on-site daily in our SmartKitchen, located in our West Office building. You can even see the cooks at work!
- Need a pick-me-up? Stop by ChikyuCoffee, our in-house coffee shop located in both the East and West Office buildings, and get a cup of gourmet coffee, espresso-based beverage, or other seasonal drink!
- SmartNews provides all healthcare and social insurance benefits required by Japanese labor law
Visa Sponsorship and Relocation Suppor
SmartNews can sponsor visas for candidates who meet eligibility requirements.
To support a smooth transition for candidates who are moving to Japan from overseas, SmartNews partners with a travel service provider.
About SmartNews
Recently crowned Japan's latest tech unicorn, this company runs a wildly successful news service thatâs powered by machine learning. It's an engineering-focused company (One of co-founders is an engineer) and they have offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Shanghai, Beijing that are apparently doing quite well too.
The mission of SmartNews is to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. Since its inception in 2012, the SmartNews app has been downloaded over 50 million downloads and maintained a monthly active user count of over 20 million.
In addition to being one of the most popular smartphone apps in Japan, SmartNews has worked hard on building their business in the US. They now have partnerships with over 300 major news publications in the US like CBS, Entertainment Weekly, Business Insider, National Geographic and more. Theyâve had a great deal of success due to their ML-based sorting and recommendation systems.
SmartNews has a highly diverse development team with many world-class engineers and others working from their offices in Japan,China and the US. They maintain a very strict hiring bar for technical hires and an engineering-driven culture that makes them one of the strongest tech companies in Japan when it comes to technical skill level.
SmartNews is looking to hire the best people regardless of background, so theyâre willing to hire people that donât speak Japanese and (under normal circumstances) bring them to Japan from overseas if necessary. Everyone works together as one team regardless of location, and SmartNews provides everything their employees need to do their best work and maintains a Silicon Valley-inspired culture for engineers in Tokyo.
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