Staff Security Engineer

Job Description

We are Atelio by FIS, and our mission is to empower developers across all verticals to easily imagine, create, and monetize financial products to profoundly transform the way the entire financial industry consumes services. Today, it's difficult for many businesses to build the financial products they imagine. Whether that's launching a new credit or debit card, a savings account, a lending business, or anything else — there are barriers in the way that require excessive time and effort. We make it easy for businesses to compliantly offer financial products and innovate on their key differentiators rather than spend their time building and maintaining financial infrastructure. 

Join Our Team as a Staff Security Engineer and Shape the Future of Fintech Security

Given the criticality of the data we handle for ourselves and our client brands, we need to set and exceed fintech/banking standards for cybersecurity and data protection. To achieve that goal, we are looking for a Staff Security Engineer to help us secure our future.

This is a builder positionwhere you will play a crucial role in our success.

Your Role:

You will be a strong contributor to both the strategic and the tactical initiatives of our organization. You will help us work backwards from the big picture, balancing the speed of a startup with high security standards. You will identify potential problems and develop proactive solutions to mitigate them while enabling us to stay innovative and agile.

In our team, technical contributors at this level are both visionary leaders and hands-on builders. They work on our most complex and most ambiguous problems. They have strong technical judgment and the communication skills to influence at the CTO and executive level as a key technical advisor. They provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction while nurturing a culture of continuous delivery.

You are encouraged to apply if you are a software or infrastructure engineer with a strong interest in security.

If you’ve written your tools to perform security assessments, have insight into the latest breaches and vulnerabilities, build or want to learn to build for high scale, understand the tradeoffs between security and agility, exploit web and/or network vulnerabilities for fun, and continually seek to improve your skill set, we want to hear from you.

Note: This position is based in the greater Seattle/Bellevue, WA area. We plan to bring the team together regularly for design, ideation, and connection building.

GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and own security and privacy features supporting product engineering and customer operations.

• Develop and implement security solutions, architectures, and tools to ensure regulatory compliance.

• Proactively identify and remedy potential security risks to customer data, leveraging your expertise in infrastructure.

• Collaborate with product teams to threat model features and identify and mitigate risks through code analysis and architectural analysis.

• Help drive the direction of the organization by operationalizing common security patterns and advancing our roadmap.

• Enhance the security reasoning and knowledge of the greater engineering team, including executive leadership, through influence and negotiation.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; or equivalent experience.

• Experience writing software in Python, GoLang, and/or Java; or equivalent.

• 10+ years of relevant experience.

• Strong command of one or more of the following: applied cryptography, authnz, networking, and code analysis.

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and assessing secure architectures.

• In-depth knowledge of security best practices, including secure coding, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing.

• Strong software, infrastructure, and security fundamentals.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong desire to grow and educate others.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with cloud security architectures, technologies, and platforms including AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Experience with financial services regulations, such as SOC 2, PCI-DSS, CCPA, and GDPR.

• Experience with threat hunting and/or incident response.

• Experience working in a fast-paced and agile environment.

• Strong network of security professionals and active participation in the security community.

Added bonus if you have 

• Experience with cloud security architectures, technologies, and platforms including AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Experience with financial services regulations, such as SOC 2, PCI-DSS, CCPA, and GDPR.

• Experience with threat hunting and/or incident response.

• Experience working in a fast-paced and agile environment.

• Strong network of security professionals and active participation in the security community.

What we offer you

At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits including:

• Opportunities to innovate in fintech.

• Tools for personal and professional growth.

• Inclusive and diverse work environment.

• Resources to invest in your community.

• Competitive salary and benefits.

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FIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $189,100.00 - $317,690.00 and reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position based on the posted role, level, and location. Within the range, actual individual starting pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Any changes in work location will also impact actual individual starting pay. Please consult with your recruiter about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Privacy Statement

FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.

EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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