Senior Security Engineer

Summary

Join Primer, the world's first unified payment infrastructure, as a Senior Security Engineer. You will play a crucial role in shaping and scaling security across our fast-growing fintech platform. This hands-on role involves leading key security initiatives, collaborating with various teams, and working across cloud infrastructure, application security, detection and response, and GRC. You will lead and deliver end-to-end security initiatives, foster a strong internal security culture, and ensure security outcomes are measurable and aligned with risk. The ideal candidate is an experienced and pragmatic Senior Security Engineer with a generalist mindset and deep understanding of security in modern, cloud-native environments. Primer offers a remote-first work environment and a variety of benefits.

Requirements

• Strong experience in security engineering, ideally from a high-growth tech or product company
• The ability to work independently, lead cross-functional efforts, and deliver security outcomes end-to-end
• A passion for growing others – you actively drive knowledge sharing and foster a culture of security
• Demonstrable SecOps experience, including threat detection, response, and operational security in cloud environments
• Familiarity with tools like Elastic for threat detection and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
• Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language for automation or tooling
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and audit processes

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver end-to-end security initiatives with minimal supervision
• Foster a strong internal security culture, sharing knowledge and driving improvements across teams
• Ensure security outcomes are measurable, visible, and tightly aligned with risk
• Collaborate with engineers and operations teams
• Build, maintain, and improve systems for threat detection and response (e.g. using AWS, Elastic)
• Work on application security and cloud infrastructure (AWS) – Terraform and Python development experience is highly valued
• Support and maintain compliance frameworks and some involvement in audit processes
• Participate in our on-call rotation for incident response and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications

Work on application security and cloud infrastructure (AWS) – Terraform and Python development experience is highly valued

Benefits

• We are fully remote
• Competitive share options
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access
• Workations & company retreat
• The best equipment for your role
• ��500 towards your home office setup
• Generous learning budget
• Medical insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits ( depending on location)