Senior Engineer, Security

The role

This Senior Engineer, Security will remediate security findings by writing Terraform and application changes. You will own AWS security, perform penetration testing, and serve as a technical lead for security incidents.

What you will do

• Remediate security findings by writing Terraform and application changes
• Drive fixes to completion across different teams
• Run vulnerability management from Snyk, Prowler, and ASV findings
• Own AWS security including IAM, network boundaries, secrets management, and logging
• Define and enforce technical security baselines as code
• Perform regular penetration testing against the environment
• Conduct threat modelling and security reviews for new services
• Serve as technical lead for security incidents and forensic investigation
• Own and improve detection coverage in Datadog

Required qualifications

• Five or more years in hands-on security engineering with responsibility for production systems
• Ability to write and ship code in Terraform and Python
• Deep AWS security experience including IAM and container workloads in ECS or EKS
• Application security experience including threat modelling and offensive testing
• Security incident response and forensic investigation experience
• Experience running vulnerability management and driving fixes through other teams
• Experience working in a regulated environment with ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or SOC 2
• Detection engineering in Datadog or a comparable SIEM
• Securing CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions
• Cryptography and secrets management in practice
• Using AI coding tools to remediate at scale and reviewing AI-generated code

Nice to have

• Experience with payments, cards, or digital assets

About the company

Taptap Send is a cross-border fintech for emerging markets. It was founded by Harvard grads and is backed by investors including Spark Capital and Canaan.