Listing Description

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.

The opportunity

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams rely on Grammarly’s AI-enabled communication assistance to hep them communicate confidently and achieve their goals. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, Grammarly for Education, and Grammarly for Developers. All of this begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

User Trust is at the heart of everything that we do. To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Security Engineer, Threat Hunting to join Grammarly Security. This is a unique opportunity for a hands-on technical lead to establish the threat hunting, analysis, and intelligence security practice at Grammarly, and own the vision, technical direction, and roadmap for the function globally. 

Grammarly’s security engineers have the freedom to develop practical solutions that, in turn, influence our security culture. The engineering landscape at Grammarly is complex, as we create innovative product offerings, expand to new platforms, and scale underlying cloud systems—all while strengthening and expanding our global team. Read more about our approach to security and privacy, learn more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As Security Engineer, Threat Hunting, you will:

• Plan and execute end-to-end threat-hunting operations across the corporate and production environment.


• Dive into threat intelligence on threat actors, their tactics, tools, and procedures, and use analytical and hands-on technical security skills to improve Grammarly's ability to prevent, detect, and respond to attempted attacks.


• Partner with offensive security on purple team operations to facilitate a realistic assessment of our environment against skilled and determined attackers.


• Partner with an incident response on investigating potential indicators of compromise and disrupting attacker operations.


• Represent Grammarly’s security engineering teams within and outside of the company.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.


• Is able to collaborate in person 2–4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.


• Is a security practitioner with experience with incident investigations, as well as host-based and network-based collection and detection tools such as commercial EDRs and SIEMs


• Can create a vision and technical direction for company-wide threat hunting and analysis practices.


• Builds strong relationships with peers across the company. 


• Nurtures the talent in the team and raises the technical talent bar when recruiting for their team.


• Identifies impactful and practical solutions for security, from low-hanging fruit to long-term investments.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.


• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. 


• Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing excellent health care (including mental health and fertility benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, caregiver and pet care stipends, wellness stipends, 401(k) matching (US only), admission discounts, learning and development opportunities, and more.


• For North America–based employment: Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, meaning pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Our compensation packages include equity; a wide range of medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance options; retirement benefits; and parental leave. We offer twenty days of paid time off per year (global), eleven days of paid holidays per year (US and Canada), and unlimited sick days (global). 

The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. 

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer, a participant in the US Federal E-Verify program (US), and abides by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania (Kennett Township, New London Township, Pittsburgh City, Shaler Township), South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia 

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario 

Please note that EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates

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