ezCater is looking for a Security Intern to join our Security Engineering and Compliance team. This remote role offers the chance to work alongside Security Engineers and Analysts, designing and implementing practical, scalable risk management and security solutions that support our product and business goals.
What You'll Do
- Learn about our users, systems, and security posture, and how security enables our product and business goals.
- Support security assessments of code and infrastructure changes with guidance from Security Engineers, helping ensure alignment with SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and internal policies.
- Assist with automating recurring security and compliance activities such as vulnerability scanning, risk assessments, third-party risk reviews, and control validation.
- Help create and tune monitoring and detective alerts for security operations, non-compliance, and incident response, using our security tools and dashboards.
- Contribute to maintaining a healthy posture of our security tools and automations by helping with configuration, troubleshooting, and documentation.
- Assist with collecting, organizing, and reviewing audit evidence for SOC 2.
- Participate in security incident response exercises and post-incident reviews, learning how we investigate and mitigate security events.
- Collaborate with partners across Technology, Product, Analytics, and IT to support small, scoped projects that reduce risk and improve our security posture.
- Have fun building meaningful, pragmatic security solutions with kind and smart people.
What We're Looking For
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity (through coursework, projects, or self-study) with one or more of: security engineering, cloud platforms, networking, or operating systems.
- Some experience with at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby, JavaScript) and an interest in leveraging APIs to automate workflows.
- Interest in risk management and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, PCI-DSS) and how they translate into technical and operational controls.
- Comfort gathering and analyzing data, and summarizing findings clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present your work and recommendations to a variety of stakeholders.
- A collaborative, curious, and pragmatic mindset — you enjoy asking questions, learning from others, and iterating based on feedback.
- A continuous learning mindset to stay current with the latest security trends, threats, and technologies.
- Soft skills that are as well developed as your technical skills, and a willingness to challenge existing norms and help make things better than they are today.
Team & Environment
You will be a member of the Security Engineering and Compliance team, collaborating with Security Engineers and Security Analysts.
Benefits & Compensation
- Market competitive salary: $30/hour - $36/hour
- Stock options
- 12 paid holidays
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with ezCater match
- Health, dental, and FSA
- Long-term disability insurance
- Mental health and family planning resources
- Remote-hybrid work from our Boston office or your home
- Wicked awesome co-workers
- Relish and many more goodies when you’re in our office
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role offering flexibility to work from our office in Boston, remotely from your home, or a mix of both.
ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status.
