Senior Security Engineer - FinTech Cloud & Data Defender

Kikoff; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 244,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech startup in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to safeguard customer data and infrastructure. You will design and maintain secure cloud systems, own the security posture of AWS services, and lead initiatives for secure software delivery. With a strong emphasis on ownership and innovation, we seek candidates who thrive in a dynamic environment. Ideal applicants have over 5 years in security engineering, particularly in AWS and infrastructure-as-code, and enjoy building internal tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering with meaningful experience in cloud-native environments (AWS).
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code security.
• Strong command of AWS security primitives.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure infrastructure patterns.
• Own our cloud security posture across AWS.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud-native environments (AWS)

Infrastructure-as-code security

Scripting or programming languages (Python, Go, Ruby)

Data security expertise

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

CSPM tooling

Job description

A leading FinTech startup in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to safeguard customer data and infrastructure. You will design and maintain secure cloud systems, own the security posture of AWS services, and lead initiatives for secure software delivery. With a strong emphasis on ownership and innovation, we seek candidates who thrive in a dynamic environment. Ideal applicants have over 5 years in security engineering, particularly in AWS and infrastructure-as-code, and enjoy building internal tooling.