
Senior Software Engineer, Security Platform
Posted Oct 14

Posted Oct 14
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.
• Design, construct, and manage security engineering services primarily utilizing Golang and Python within AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Take ownership of the NATS event-driven platform, which encompasses contracts, consumers, delivery assurances, and observability.
• Integrate scanners, the finding system of record, ticketing systems, and metrics.
• Oversee the delivery of SAST, SCA, secret detection, container, and IaC security gates.
• Develop agentic security workflows, including CI review agents, automated finding triage and verification, and remediation assistants.
• Create automation for triage-to-remediation processes, featuring reproduction context, guidance for fixes, and routing.
• Engage in threat modeling and secure design assessments.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for the services you manage.
• Report directly to the Director of Information Security and collaborate with detection and response as well as network and zero trust engineers.
• Over 6 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
• Recently deployed significant changes to a production application within the last 30 days.
• Strong expertise in Golang and a working knowledge of Python.
• Practical experience in building and operating event-driven or message-based systems such as NATS or Kafka.
• Hands-on experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Comprehensive knowledge of web application security principles, including the OWASP Top 10.
• Experience with SAST, SCA, and secret-scanning tools like Semgrep, CodeQL, Snyk, Trivy, Grype, and gitleaks.
• Proven current utilization of AI tools and experience in creating effective agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes platforms.
• Preferred: experience in fintech, payments, BNPL, or consumer lending sectors.
• Preferred: understanding of PCI DSS and SOC 2 compliance.
• Preferred: knowledge of software supply-chain integrity, including SBOM pipelines, dependency management, artifact signing, and provenance.
• Preferred: familiarity with policy-as-code and admission control frameworks such as OPA, Kyverno, and conftest.
• Preferred: exposure to bug bounty programs or external vulnerability report management.
• Preferred: experience in system-level threat modeling.
• Fully remote working arrangements.
• Flexibility to work from any location.
• Access to AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows.
• An open-source-focused technology landscape.
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