Security Engineer

The role

You will own the security posture across application, infrastructure, and operational security. You will design security controls, conduct code reviews, and implement compliance frameworks as the company scales.

What you will do

• Own security posture across application, infrastructure, and operational security
• Conduct code reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing
• Design and implement security controls, monitoring, and incident response processes
• Establish security policies, procedures, and compliance frameworks
• Hire, manage, and supervise specialist contractors or future security hires
• Ship internal security tooling and features
• Work closely with engineering to embed security into the development lifecycle

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering
• Experience at a payments company, bank, or other regulated financial institution
• Experience with cloud environments (GCP)
• Experience with infrastructure as code providers (Terraform)
• Knowledge in both application/code security and operational security
• Ability to write production code
• Experience building security programs at early-stage or high-growth companies
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to payments and banking (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, state money transmission, etc.)
• Based in New York City (or willing to relocate)

Nice to have

• Ideally you've shipped internal tools or security features yourself

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision)
• Unlimited vacation
• Periodic off-sites
• Daily lunch provided

About the company

bettermoney is a small, scrappy team based in NYC that believes stablecoins are better money. They have raised $10M from a16z crypto and other partners to build a clearinghouse.