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Senior Security Engineer (Remote – US)

Compensation: $170K–$300K base + equity
Type: Full-time
Location: Remote (US)

Overview

We’re partnering with a fast-growing, AI-driven fintech company transforming how a massive, legacy industry operates. Their platform is modernizing outdated systems and automating complex workflows that have historically been slow, manual, and expensive.

This is a high-impact opportunity to join a lean, product-focused team tackling real-world problems at scale, with billions in transaction volume already flowing through the platform.

The Role

They’re hiring a Senior Security Engineer to build and scale security as a product enabler—not a blocker.

This is a hands-on IC role with broad ownership across:

Application security
Cloud / infrastructure security
Compliance (SOC 2)
Security tooling & automation

You’ll be writing code, shipping tooling, and embedding security into the development lifecycle—making it easy for engineers to build securely by default.

What You’ll Do

Lead security initiatives across application, infrastructure, and identity
Conduct threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and remediation
Build and integrate security tooling (SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets detection)
Harden AWS environments (IAM, VPCs, logging, GuardDuty, KMS, etc.)
Own and evolve SOC 2 Type II compliance
Establish a secure SDLC with lightweight, scalable processes
Partner closely with engineering to improve security without slowing delivery
Lead or support incident response and postmortems
Manage identity/access systems (SSO, MFA, SCIM, access reviews)
Oversee vendor and third-party security risk

Tech Environment

Cloud: AWS (IAM, VPC, GuardDuty, Security Hub, etc.)
Infra: Terraform, Pulumi, Docker, ECS (EC2/Fargate)
Backend: Node.js / TypeScript (monorepo)
Frontend: React + GraphQL
Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, OpenSearch
Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry
CI/CD: Buildkite

What They’re Looking For

Strong application security background (OWASP, threat modeling, secure code review)
Deep AWS security experience
Experience with Terraform and/or Pulumi
Hands-on SOC 2 experience (controls, audits, evidence)
CI/CD security integration experience
Background in fintech or regulated environments preferred
Experience with identity systems (SSO, SAML, MFA, SCIM)
Ability to build tooling/automation (Python, Bash, etc.)
Strong communicator who can work closely with engineering teams

Why This Role

Security is treated as a core product function, not compliance overhead
High ownership and autonomy
Real scale and real impact (handling sensitive financial data)
Remote-first, strong engineering culture
Opportunity to shape security from the ground up