Staff Security Engineer

Addepar1; New York (NY); On-site; USD 199,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

Addepar seeks a Staff Security Engineer to join the Security Solutions team in New York. You will lead high-impact security initiatives across infrastructure, applications, and the corporate environment, shaping enterprise security architecture and enabling secure code delivery.

Expect to collaborate with engineering and product teams to deploy scalable security solutions, automate guardrails, and mentor junior engineers while advancing Addepar’s security posture.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of dedicated experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, data security or cloud security roles.
• Strong project leadership, turning vague security problems into structured plans and executing them.
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Curious and eager to learn, with deep information security interest.
• Ability to build relationships with internal and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Drive security initiatives across infrastructure, applications and the corporate environment.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design scalable security solutions.
• Build tools, guardrails, and automated workflows to ship secure code quickly.
• Identify gaps in security posture and design remediation plans to maturity.
• Act as a trusted security advisor across engineering, product and R&D teams.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to elevate technical capabilities.

Skills

Cloud infra

Data security

AI security

Zero Trust

Non-Human Identity

Job description

Who We Are

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo.

The Role

We are seeking a well rounded Staff Security Engineer to join our growing Information Security & Risk team. In this role, you will be a member of our newly formed Security Solutions team. This team is at the forefront of driving organization-wide security enhancements through high-impact, project-driven initiatives.

If you are looking for an opportunity to build from the ground up, influence security architecture, and meaningfully elevate Addepar’s overall security posture, this is the role for you.

Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.

The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for roles in Colorado, California, and New York. The current range for this role is $199,000 - $249,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship (for example, employment-based visas such as H-1B, F-1/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment.

What You’ll Do

• Drive Security Initiatives: Lead and execute complex, project-driven security enhancements across the organization’s infrastructure, applications, and corporate environment.
• Security Architecture & Design: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to architect, build, and deploy scalable, resilient security solutions.
• Enablement & Automation: Build tools, guardrails, and automated workflows that empower development teams to ship secure code quickly and safely.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify gaps in the current security posture, design remediation plans, and systematically execute them to maturity.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a trusted security advisor across engineering, product, and R&D teams, fostering a strong culture of security enablement rather than restriction.
• Mentorship: Mentor junior and mid-level engineers within the Information Security & Risk team, helping to elevate collective technical capabilities.

Who You Are

• Experience: 6+ years of dedicated experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, data security or cloud security roles.
• Project Leadership: Proven track record of taking vague security problems, turning them into structured project plans, and executing them to completion.
• Attention to details and analytical skills.
• Curious, always learning and deeply interested in Information Security.
• Ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external partners.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.

Desired Technical Skills

• Experience or knowledge with the following technologies and competencies:
  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
  • Data Security including Data Loss Prevention and Data Security Posture Management Tools
  • AI including how to secure AI and leverage AI to assist with security needs.
  • Zero Trust Access Solutions
  • Identity based solutions; especially familiarity with Non-Human Identity Platforms

Our Values

• Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
• Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
• Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
• Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.