KOBALT INTRO:

Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.
Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Adhritz, the startup built a platform to maximise efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era and a more fair, rewarding music business for creators. Our technology enables them to access royalty payments 4x faster while also maximising the royalty collection amounts.
With over 400 employees in 12 offices worldwide, Kobalt today represents over 31,000 artists and songwriters, 700,000 songs and 600 publishing companies. Kobalt is proud to work with artists, songwriters, and companies like Childish Gambino, Max Martin, Paul McCartney, MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

As a Security Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in our expanding security program, with a primary focus on securing our cloud infrastructure and the applications and services we develop. While this will be your core responsibility, you’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to broader security activities, collaborating with engineering teams to safeguard our entire technology stack and build a resilient security posture for our company’s future.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Cloud Security: Design, implement, and maintain security controls and best practices for our AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with relevant security frameworks.
• Secure Software Development: Champion secure coding practices, conduct security code reviews, and integrate security testing methodologies into our CI/CD pipelines.
• Vulnerability Management: Review vulnerability reports, prioritise findings, and work with teams to remediate them.
• Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment: Lead threat modeling exercises specifically for new cloud services and software features, and collaborate with engineering teams to address identified risks.
• Alerting & Incident Response: Design and implement effective alerting mechanisms, investigate security incidents with a focus on cloud and application security, and participate in table-top exercises and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Security Tooling: Research, evaluate, and implement new security tools and processes.
• Partner Collaboration: Work with external security partners to optimise alerting, reporting, and incident investigations.
• Penetration Testing: Coordinate penetration tests and collaborate with teams to address any identified vulnerabilities.