Staff DevSecOps Engineer | Bankrate

Socket.dev; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance Coverage (medical, 3)

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) with match

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program

Flexible PTO - 20–25 days

Job summary

Bankrate, part of Red Ventures, is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to own our security posture across cloud and CI/CD pipelines. You will implement SOC 2 Type 2 controls, automate evidence generation, and embed security into the development lifecycle with policy-as-code.

You’ll build scalable security automation, run remediation workflows, and partner with governance teams to mature in-house security capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, DevSecOps, or platform engineering with security focus.
• Hands-on cloud security experience on a major cloud provider.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform) including policy-as-code.
• Proven CI/CD security experience integrated into developer workflows.
• Vulnerability management at scale with automation.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering side of the compliance program (SOC 2 Type 2).
• Operate and improve the compliance automation platform and evidence pipelines.
• Productize compliance with policy-as-code and guardrails for faster audits.
• Own cloud security posture management and runtime security tooling.
• Triage findings, meet SLAs, and design automation to scale.
• Build auto-remediation workflows, including AI-assisted pipelines.
• Maintain CI/CD security gates and policy enforcement.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Terraform

CI/CD security

Vulnerability management

SOC 2

AI/LLM in security

Automation

Tools

SAST/SCA tooling

Secret scanning

IaC tooling

Job description

This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp.
*This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.

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Platform Engineering builds the foundations our product teams ship on — deployment, infrastructure, and security. We're hiring a DevSecOps Engineer to be the technical owner of our security posture and a force multiplier for every engineer at the company. This is a build-the-function role, not a ticket-taking role. You'll treat security as code, bake it into the development lifecycle, and automate the toil away so teams can ship fast and safely. You'll have unusually broad ownership and unusually high impact.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the engineering side of our compliance program (SOC 2 Type 2): implementing controls, collecting evidence, and keeping us audit-ready.
• Operate our compliance automation platform — integrations, evidence pipelines, and mapping controls to real implementation.
• Productize compliance: policy-as-code, automated evidence generation, and guardrails so passing audits doesn't slow product delivery.
• Own cloud security posture management and runtime security tooling: posture monitoring, container and IaC scanning, and runtime coverage across our environment.
• Triage and remediate findings against demanding SLAs, and design the automation and alerting that keeps pace with volume manual effort can't.
• Build auto-remediation workflows — including AI-assisted pipelines — that detect, file, and (where safe) fix findings with minimal human intervention.
• Build and maintain CI/CD security gates: SAST/SCA, secret scanning, SBOM generation, dependency management, and container/IaC scanning — implemented as reusable pipeline components and enforced through automated policy.
• Encode security and compliance controls into infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code so the easy path is the secure path.
• Help close the prototype-to-production gap: turn fast-moving prototypes into production-grade, secure-by-default systems with automated guardrails.
• Make secure-by-default the norm through our internal tooling, so the right controls are applied automatically rather than relying on engineers to remember.
• Build the automation the team runs on — reusable modules, pipeline components, and AI/agentic tooling that turn manual security work into self-service capability.
• Partner with corporate security and GRC functions while building and maturing our in-house security capability, so the team can make sound security decisions quickly and independently

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years in security engineering, DevSecOps, or platform/infrastructure engineering with a strong security focus (Staff level: 8+ years and a track record of building security functions or programs).
• Deep hands-on cloud security experience (compute, networking, IAM, key management, logging) on a major cloud provider.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, especially Terraform, including policy-as-code.
• Proven CI/CD security experience: building pipeline security controls (SAST/SCA, secret scanning, dependency and container scanning) into developer workflows.
• Hands-on vulnerability management at scale: triage, prioritization, SLA-driven remediation, and the automation to make it sustainable.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2 (or comparable frameworks) and what it takes to implement and evidence controls in a real engineering environment.
• Fluency with the categories of modern cloud security tooling — CSPM, ASPM/SAST and secret scanning, compliance automation, and SIEM (e.g., tools such as Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Snyk, Drata, Vanta, or equivalents).
• Strong coding/scripting ability to build automation, not just configure tools — you write the pipelines, modules, and tooling that scale security across many services.
• Experience standing up or maturing an in-house security function.
• Multi-cloud exposure and experience securing an internal developer platform.
• Security monitoring and detection/alerting design.
• Experience applying AI/LLM tooling to security operations — auto-remediation, evidence generation, agentic workflows.

Compensation:

Total Cash Compensation Range: $150,000 – $225,000 per year

Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Bankrate is where Americans go to get the best price on life's most important financial decisions. By combining proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market coverage, Bankrate helps consumers compare options and make confident financial choices across mortgages, credit cards, savings, and more. As a rate provider to the Federal Reserve and the benchmark relied upon by major publishers and policymakers nationwide, Bankrate's rate data is the national standard. This commitment to precision is reflected across all its products. In mortgages, proprietary auction technology puts lenders in real-time competition on price alone, consistently delivering rates in the lowest 10% in the country. For deposits, the platform features exclusively top-tier rates in the top 10% nationally, while its credit card coverage encompasses more than 90% of the market by volume. Founded by a journalist, Bankrate remains dedicated to its founding mission of transparency, honest information, and real competition — helping to make the American dream more affordable for everyone.

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