Guideline is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join our Security team as a Staff Software Engineer to lead and own security, privacy, and fraud work across Guideline. You will be a partner to other engineering teams, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to build safe and secure products and infrastructure.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems
• Experience working on high availability security services like authentication, data encryption, or fraud platforms
• Familiarity with mature engineering-centric security programs like vulnerability management or security architecture reviews
• Track record of building resilient and maintainable systems in complicated business domains at scale
• Expert knowledge of a server-side language such as Ruby, Python, or Node

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the security team’s technical infrastructure including our vulnerability management platform and SIEM
• Consult with engineering and product teams, to help them upgrade existing security primitives around things like data encryption, authentication, and fraud detection
• Identify patterns across our application that would benefit from a unified secure by default framework, and then work with teams to adopt said framework
• Consult with our partners like legal on privacy risks, and compliance on fraud risks to develop technical controls to mitigate said risks
• Contribute to our centralized engineering automation platform to add security improvements like auditing, improved just in time access flows, and integrations with existing engineering workflows on things like Github and Slack

Benefits

• Flexible time off in addition to company holidays — We observe the NYSE Holiday Calendar
• 401(k) with matching contributions — We use our own platform and match 100% of the first 3% contributed, and 50% of the next 2% (for a max employer contribution of 4%)
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance for employees and 70% coverage for dependents
• Opt-out credit if all three plans are waived
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Disability and life insurance options
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching through Modern Health, for employees and their dependents
• Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
• Annual learning and development stipend — We reimburse approved professional development expenses, up to $750 per employee per year