Lead Security Engineer
SF Headquarters$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Hands-on Lead Security Engineer responsible for building a repeatable security operating system, owning compliance operations, boundary testing, access and vulnerability management, detection and response, and automation.
Responsibilities
- The operating procedure for SOC 2, PCI, enterprise security questionnaires, and bank-specific security requirements, keeping implementation, approval, submission, and acceptance separate.
- Security testing across cloud/IAM, application, payment, and AI boundaries, including synthetic tests covering recordings, transcripts, logs, tools, storage, and providers.
- Investigation of access anomalies.
- Stronger IAM/PAM controls and monitoring.
- Network and vulnerability scanning, with every finding tracked through service-owner remediation and retest, or an authorized exception.
- Incident runbooks, useful detections, and proven handoffs between security, service teams, and backup personnel.
- Automation for security controls and evidence: tested evidence connectors, asset reconciliation, obligation tracking, and claim-review workflows.
Qualifications
- You own outcomes end to end and ship weekly with a small team, deciding with incomplete information.
- You're a software engineer first: you write production-quality code and build tested tooling and automation.
- You have hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure and identity and access (IAM/PAM), including investigating suspicious access.
- You prioritize by real risk, are clear about what isn't covered, and can explain tradeoffs to leadership.
Skills
Required:Cloud security
Nice to have:SOC 2PCI
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- generous 401(k)
- catered lunches
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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