Security Engineer

Summary

Join Wealthfront's Security Engineering team as a security-minded engineer to build and mature security within a growing fintech organization. You will play a key role in ensuring the right security solutions are in place. This role offers the option of being U.S.-based remote or located in Palo Alto, CA. You will configure and automate security tools, partner with other engineering teams to build security best practices, define and communicate security policies, stay updated on security threats, assess and troubleshoot security issues, and conduct incident response. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, bonus, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 4+ years in Software, Site Reliability, or Security Engineering
• Experience building/using tools that implement security/audit automation
• Comfortable coordinating security responses to CVEs and reported findings
• Comfortable detailing risks and mitigation strategies to leadership across the company
• Solid understanding of AWS IAM, CloudTrail auditing tools, and cross/multi-account policy enforcement and anomaly detection tools

Responsibilities

• Configure, tune and automate security tools to enable easy integration of security into core workflows
• Partner with DevOps, IT, Infra, and Software engineers to build security best practices into their tools, coding practices, and processes, so it’s easier to build features and infrastructure that meet those standards
• Define and evangelize security policies across Wealthfront, and be comfortable presenting information and educating both technical and non-technical colleagues on security practices and changes in a positive, engaging way
• Stay abreast of the latest security threats and mitigations and advocate for solutions that enable us to stay ahead of the curve
• Assess and troubleshoot security threats as they arise, and develop tools to prevent recurrence
• Conduct security incident response and write security response playbooks

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years in a role focused on security engineering and automation
• Experience on an agile scrum engineering team
• Coding ability in Go, Python, Java, BASH, or similar
• Experience enforcing internal enterprise, infrastructure, and application security policies
• Experience working in both on prem and cloud hybrid environments
• Infrastructure automation experience, using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar

Benefits

• Estimated annual salary range: $140,000 - $160,000 USD plus equity and a discretionary bonus
• Medical, vision, dental
• 401K plan
• Generous time off
• Parental leave
• Wellness reimbursements
• Professional development
• Employee investing discount