Senior Product Security Engineer

Summary

Join GoodLeap's security team as a Product and Application Senior Engineer and play a key role in shaping the security and resilience of our products, services, and applications. You will work closely with product, engineering, and business teams, ensuring the safety and resilience of developed and operated products and services. Embedded within a business unit, you will oversee product features, build-time controls, and runtime controls. You will represent all areas of security for your assigned unit(s), from governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) to security monitoring. Your primary focus will be designing and building product security services and processes, creating security patterns and practices, and fostering strong relationships with various teams. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to GoodLeap's security posture and product development.

Requirements

• Strong communicator with the ability to lead technical architecture discussions, drive technical decisions, and effectively communicate with non-technical audiences
• Expertise in agile product lifecycles. Ideally, you have experience in a product manager or engineering manager role and understand how SaaS products (B2B, B2B2C, and B2C) are built, including roadmap planning and feature and defect prioritization
• Experience with threat modeling methodologies, with the ability to create efficient and scalable approaches to conducting such assessments
• Familiarity with AWS services, including KMS, SST, Container Registry, ELBs, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudTrail, and IAM (knowledge of GCP and/or Azure is a plus)
• Proven ability to establish credibility and build trust with engineers and operational staff; confident yet humble
• Hands-on experience with microservices and associated orchestration tools, such as ECS, EKS, Nomad, and Istio, with an understanding of the operational and security implications of these technologies
• Strong understanding of both human and non-human identity management and common enterprise and consumer authentication standards and use cases
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools, including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK; GitHub and GitHub Actions; artifact management; and secrets management tools like Doppler and HashiCorp Vault
• Passionate about learning new technologies. While you're not expected to know everything, you should demonstrate a willingness and ability to learn as needed
• Prior experience developing security services for products or enterprise platforms, ideally using Python, Node.js , TypeScript, or .NET
• Proficiency in writing automation scripts in multiple languages, with prior experience automating security processes in cloud or SaaS environments
• Strong understanding of cryptography and key management use cases
• Experience overseeing vulnerability and threat management at the platform and application levels
• Familiarity with penetration testing and red team exercises, including manual verification, exploitation, and lateral movement
• Ability to balance a high-level view of security strategy with attention to detail, ensuring thorough and effective execution

Responsibilities

• Lead, participate in, and contribute to partnerships between security, engineering, product, and operations teams to build, orchestrate, and automate security controls and services in GoodLeap products and services
• Define and refine processes such as threat modeling, embedment models, and the prioritization of features, defects, and vulnerabilities
• Assist the red team with ongoing activities, including bug bounty programs and continuous penetration testing platforms
• Support or develop components of the security analytics platform
• Support the security operations team with the vulnerability management lifecycle for products and services under your purview
• Contribute to investigations, threat hunting, and incident response activities in a supporting role. Collaborate with the monitoring and response team to create playbooks for specific incident response scenarios related to the products and services you oversee. These investigations, incidents, and playbooks may address security, fraud, privacy, resilience, and related concerns
• Ensure technical alignment for the products and services you oversee with team initiatives, including GRC, security operations, and monitoring and response activities

Benefits

• $146,000 - $170,000 a year
• In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus