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Detection & CorpSec Engineer
Quora
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Executive opportunity brief
The decision in one screen
A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.
Fast read
Opportunity DNA
This opportunity needs a closer read before drawing a strong conclusion, especially around the salary benchmark is still shallow.
The range is usable, but the comparable sample is still too shallow for a strong relative-pay call.
Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
One or more material qualification requirements are stated and may narrow the realistic applicant pool.
Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.
Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.
At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.
Decision evidence check
4 of 5 core facts stated
This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.
Facts already stated
- Compensation
- Work arrangement
- Advertised location
- Employment type
What to verify next
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Advertised location is not proof of work authorization, sponsorship, or legal eligibility. Unknown information is not a negative score; verify those questions separately.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
Nothing stands out strongly enough yet to call a clear advantage. The role may still be attractive for reasons the listing does not spell out.
Trade-offs to weigh
- The salary benchmark is still shallow: Pay is disclosed, but the current comparison pool is too small for a strong relative-pay conclusion.
- Location rules could change the fit: Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
- The experience requirement raises the entry bar: The listing appears to require at least about 5 years of experience.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
- Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
- Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.
These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.
Salary transparency context
Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?
This listing states usable structured compensation, but the current role sample is still too small for a reliable disclosure-rate comparison.
Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.
At least ten current comparable roles are required before HPJ publishes a disclosure percentage.
Employer-level comparison is withheld until enough current employer listings are available.
This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.
Private offer & negotiation lab
Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork
Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.
Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, strong decision evidence.
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Review the full package · 10 terms
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Usable advertised compensation is available.
Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.
Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.
Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.
Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.
Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.
A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.
Relocation support not established
Sponsorship not established
A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.
Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
- Is there a bonus, commission or other variable-pay component, and how is it calculated?
- What retirement or pension contribution does the employer provide?
- If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
- What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
- Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
The listing contains useful skill signals, while the current occupation sample is still too thin for a broader comparison.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
The occupation sample is still too thin for a reliable shared-skill comparison.
Application edge
- If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used AWS and Python rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
- The listing states about 5 years of required experience. Check that the dates and scope in your application make that experience easy to verify.
- The listing mentions extra application steps. Review those requirements before starting so you can prepare the requested material in one pass.
Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant.
Application Decision Lab
Turn the listing into a preparation plan
Separate what the listing actually states from what you still need to prepare or verify. Your selections and short notes stay in this browser and are never submitted to High Paid Job.
At least about 5 years of experience required
The available wording contains an explicit minimum/required years-of-experience signal. Preferred years are tracked separately and never promoted into the required minimum.
AWS
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Python
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Prepare for a stated application step
An assessment, test or work-sample step is explicitly mentioned.
Prepare for a stated application step
A background or pre-employment screening step is explicitly mentioned.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
- Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
A closer look at Detection & CorpSec Engineer at Quora points most strongly to pay is visible, but the benchmark is still thin, remote flexibility can be weighed properly, and the listing gives useful clues about who can realistically enter. Those signals shape the practical upside and the questions still worth asking.
Pay is visible, but the benchmark is still thin
A usable USD salary is available, but there are not enough comparable current observations for a strong percentile statement yet.
Remote flexibility can be weighed properly
Location flexibility can be assessed here: Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions, with a Remote Freedom reading of 62/100. One practical limit to notice is geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region..
The listing gives useful clues about who can realistically enter
At least about 5 years of experience required · 1 additional stated barrier. Unstated education or experience requirements stay open rather than being assumed.
The application route gives a few useful clues
Provider-mediated application path · 2 visible process steps. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
The listing can be traced to a current source
1 recent enabled source can currently renew this vacancy across 1 source classes. That improves traceability, although it does not verify the employer itself.
How this analysis is assembled
This read combines the structured details currently available for pay, flexibility, qualifications, mobility, application effort and source continuity. Missing facts are left open for you to verify.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
This title does not yet fit a reliable comparison family, so a pay percentile is not shown.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
The listing was posted about 10 days ago.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
No standout strength is supported strongly enough to list here. That is not a negative rating.
Visible cautions
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
- At least about 5 years of experience required
Still unknown
- There is not enough comparable salary evidence to establish this job’s current pay position.
- Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.
Pay vs. barriers
Opportunity Efficiency not assessed
The current pay position is not reliable enough to weigh compensation against the stated barriers.
1 explicit required barrier is visible in the available wording.
The listing states at least about 5 years of required experience.
1 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signal is present and is shown separately from qualification requirements.
- Current comparable pay position is unavailable.
- Education requirement is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding
Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.
Still check: At least about 5 years of experience required · The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
This title does not yet fit a reliable comparison family, so a pay percentile is not shown.
Why this analysis?
- This title does not yet fit a reliable comparison family, so a pay percentile is not shown.
- Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
- Range quality: Focused salary range.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at Quora
Very strong current pay transparency
This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
Quora — current opportunity snapshot
Employer Evidence Profile
How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.
Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.
Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.
Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.
Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.
Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.
Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.
Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.
Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.
Common current occupation families: Data & AI (4) · Software engineering (3) · Product (1)
Visible seniority mix: Senior / lead (5) · Leadership (1)
Current employment-type mix: Full time (9)
Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United States (9)
Other current roles from this employer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking - Quora
Canada, Ireland, USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteSoftware Engineer New Grad, Machine Learning Platform - Quora
Canada, UK, USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems - Quora
Canada, Ireland, USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteMachine Learning Engineer, New Grad - Quora
Canada, USA
Seniority not clearly specified · Region-restricted remoteThese are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.
Current disclosed salary medians by currency
- USD 210,960 median · 9 disclosed salaries
Questions worth asking this employer
- If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
- If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
- What is the expected application and interview timeline if the listing does not state a closing date?
These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.
This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions
Why this score?
- The role is remote but the source identifies a country or regional restriction.
Location restrictions detected
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: jobicy.com · HTTPS
Visible application steps or requirements
- An assessment, test or work-sample step is explicitly mentioned.
- A background or pre-employment screening step is explicitly mentioned.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
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- Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
- Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
- Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
- Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.
This is a limited safety screen, not employer verification and not a fraud determination. Never send money, cryptocurrency, passwords or sensitive banking credentials merely because a listing appears on a job platform.
Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]
About Quora:
Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:
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Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.
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Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-5.6-Sol, Claude-Opus-5, Claude-Fable-5, Claude-Sonnet-5, Kimi-K3, and thousands of others. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.
Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.
This role will be supporting both our Quora and Poe products.
About the Team and Role:
Quora's Security team is responsible for protecting the company's most critical assets from both external threats and insider risks. We're a small, high-ownership team with a pragmatic, builder-oriented approach: we build where commercial solutions don't fit, leverage AI to work efficiently at scale, and move fast to stay ahead of real-world threats.
We're looking for a Detection & Corporate Security Engineer to strengthen both our preventative and detection capabilities across corporate and production environments. This is a genuinely hybrid role: you'll build and maintain detection systems while also owning the corporate security controls that protect our employee fleet and internal infrastructure. You'll work closely with our IT team, collaborate with existing security engineers on production-side coverage, and serve as a trusted security advisor to non-technical teams across the organization.
Responsibilities:
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Build and maintain a SIEM to collect and analyze logs from across corporate and production systems; write and deploy detections and alerts to identify malicious behavior
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Design and deploy canary tokens and early warning mechanisms to detect threats before they reach critical assets
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Investigate security incidents end-to-end — including malware analysis, exfiltration assessment, and timeline reconstruction — and build runbooks to scale response capabilities
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Partner with IT to define and enforce security standards across the employee device fleet, including endpoint protection, managed device requirements, OS compliance, and VPN access controls
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Drive the PoC and implementation of Zero-Trust VPN and other corporate security infrastructure
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Provide security guidance and advisory support to non-engineering functions across the organization
Minimum Requirements:
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Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
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5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or a closely related field
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Hands-on experience building or maintaining SIEM infrastructure and writing detection rules
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Experience with endpoint security tools (e.g. CrowdStrike or similar EDR platforms)
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Strong Python engineering skills with a track record of writing production code reviewed and shipped alongside software engineering teams
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Experience conducting security incident investigations, including malware analysis, log review, and timeline reconstruction and threat modeling
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Experience with corporate security controls, identity management, endpoint protection, and access control enforcement
Preferred Requirements:
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Experience with SIEM/SOAR options such as Elastic/Splunk or alternatives
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Familiarity with identity platforms such as Okta
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Strong understanding of authentication technology such as OAuth, Yubikey and Passkey
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Experience with Zero-Trust network architecture or VPN implementation
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Demonstrated use of AI coding tools to build or automate security workflows
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Experience in a small security team or fast-paced startup environment
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Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native security tooling
At Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.
Additional Information:
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.
Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more. Benefits are country-specific and may vary.
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
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US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $172,279 - $249,640 USD + equity + benefits.
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Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $220,272 - $255,347 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $205,587 - $238,324 CAD + equity + benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
AI technology may assist in sorting applications and recording interview notes, but all decisions are made by a member of our team.
To ensure a secure hiring process, all final candidates will undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check prior to onboarding.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice: https://www.careers.quora.com/pages/quora-global-job-applicant-privacy-notice
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Listing provenance
Where did this job come from?
See where this vacancy came from and whether more than one current source can still support it. Source names help with traceability and attribution; they are not endorsements or guarantees.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
- Continuity
- One recent renewable source
- Source-class independence
- One renewable source class
- Last source observation
- Observed in the current source window
This records when High Paid Job last observed the vacancy in source evidence. It confirms source presence, not that the employer edited the vacancy at that time.
- 1 enabled source recently observed this vacancy.
Source confidence is about traceability and continuity. It is separate from application safety and should not be read as an employer reputation rating.
The vacancy is supplied by an external job publisher. Source information helps show where the listing came from; it is not a guarantee about the employer or vacancy.
Listing source: Jobicy. Destination: jobicy.com. The application opens in a new tab so you can keep this report open.