Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Platform Engineering

Posted on 4/1/2025

Spec

Spec

51-200 employees

Compliance integration platform for fraud prevention

Compensation Overview

$160k - $180k/yr

+ Equity + Bonus

San Jose, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid: 3 days on-site per week in San Jose.

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (2)
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Requirements
  • Professional experience working in mixed DevOps environments focused on strategic development and operations.
  • Professional experience as an individual contributor to front and backend systems (Typescript, Postgres, UI frameworks, Rust).
  • Experience working with cluster-based cloud platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Nix, etc.).
  • Experience designing and building cloud platforms using public cloud provider services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines and processes for code and infrastructure deployments (GitLab, Terraform, Argo CD).
  • Professional experience working with infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, TerraGrunt, Helm, GitOps).
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and operate core, end-to-end elements of the platform, including: Cloud infrastructure. Networking strategies. Software delivery. Environment management. Observability, monitoring, and alerting. Load, failure, and security testing tools. Incident tooling and management. Platform performance and scalability. Developer experience.
  • Collaborate with product development teams to accomplish shared goals and projects.
  • Engage in code review to collaborate over changes made to our platforms and tools.
  • Create, refine, automate, and optimize processes to reduce operational toil.
  • Mentor and train new team members as the company continues to grow.
  • Lead projects and initiatives from the strategic roadmap and tech debt backlog.
  • Factor in security, privacy, and compliance when designing platforms with sensitive data.
  • Participate in shared on-call rotations and incident response activities with the rest of the engineering organization.
  • Support customer-facing teams and their needs as necessary.
  • Contribute to strategic team planning in order to drive forward company and organizational goals.

SpecTrust provides a subscription-based cybersecurity platform that lets businesses add compliance controls and deploy fraud solutions without coding. It connects unlimited data sources and tools (cloud security networks, payment gateways) and uses automated workflows to turn unified data into security outcomes in milliseconds. It targets finance, e-commerce, and other data-heavy online services to quickly respond to threats while reducing friction for customers. Its goal is to build a trust-first internet by enabling seamless compliance, real-time identity and behavior insights, and unified tools for secure online experiences.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$29.2M

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • Strategic partnerships with Identiq, AtData expand fraud detection capabilities across 3 billion identities.
  • SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS Level 1 certifications unlock enterprise sales in regulated industries.
  • Series A funding from SignalFire accelerates threat labs R&D against AI-powered attack tools.

What critics are saying

  • Identiq partnership vulnerability: March 2026 breach of 3 billion identity database compromises validation data.
  • Sift's machine learning models trained on 10x larger datasets directly undercut Spec's market position.
  • EU AI Act regulations mandate explainable AI, rendering Spec's black-box orchestration platform non-compliant.

What makes Spec unique

  • Journey-level visibility and behavioral analysis catch fraud across sessions, accounts, and devices.
  • No-code platform enables rapid deployment without engineering resources or technical expertise required.
  • Honeypot technology traps malicious automation in decoy environments while protecting live systems.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401(k) Retirement Plan

Home Office Stipend

Professional Development Budget

Hybrid Work Options

Paid Holidays

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

1%
PR Newswire
Dec 12th, 2023
Spec And Identiq Partner To Deliver Identity Validation To Fraud Teams Worldwide

Identiq's network of over 3 billion identities will now be a part of Spec's end-to-end fraud prevention solutionsSAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spec , a leading cybersecurity firm, and Identiq , the private network for identity validation, announced today a partnership that brings Identiq's peer-to-peer validation technology to Spec's customer journey security platform, offering unparalleled fraud prevention solutions to companies globally.This integration marks a significant milestone in the risk and fraud ecosystem as it enables Spec's customers to easily incorporate Identiq into their existing tech stack and leverage first-party data from some of the world's largest companies who are on the Identiq network to:Make more accurate risk-based decisionsApprove more accounts and transactions while reducing risk and liabilityImprove customer experiences while increasing efficiency and ROI"We are thrilled to partner with Spec and empower more companies to collaborate with each other and make better decisions," said Itay Levy, co-Founder and CEO of Identiq. "This partnership furthers our mission to identify trusted and valued customers together.""Our partners help fulfill the reality of a fully secured customer journey for the companies we protect," said Nate Kharrl, co-Founder and CEO of Spec. "We're excited to be partnering with Identiq to help our customers quickly deploy Identiq to mitigate losses and facilitate expanded business avenues with minimal risk."More than 98% of online users are reliable consumers who have already been validated by many businesses across the globe. Identiq helps network members leverage the trust that has already been established and allows them to let users in, providing them a friction-free experience at any touchpoint in the customer journey.Identiq is now available to Spec customers for evaluation and implementation. For more information visit Spec .About SpecSpec is a leading cybersecurity firm specializing in advanced fraud detection and defense, providing enterprises with unparalleled fraud security solutions

FinSMEs
Oct 18th, 2023
Spec Raises $15M in Series A Funding

Spec raises $15M in Series A funding.

Cision
Oct 18th, 2023
Spec Secures $15M Series A Funding, Accelerating Innovation In Fraud Defense

Spec is the only no-code orchestration platform that protects enterprise fraud defenses from being blocked, bypassed, and manipulated by modern attack tactics.SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Spec, a leading cybersecurity firm specializing in advanced fraud detection and defense, is thrilled to announce the successful closure of its $15M Series A funding round, marking a significant milestone in the company's journey. This funding round was led by SignalFire, with participation from Legion Capital, and Rally Ventures.From its beginnings as a "hello world" prototype during the early days of the pandemic, the Spec platform has advanced to invisibly protect enterprises processing billions in online transactions. Today, Spec's platform scans the entire customer journey, allowing for the identification of all threats and attacks, and then deploys active countermeasures, especially against the AI-powered attack tools that threaten to disrupt online businesses.This funding round will power Spec's continued growth and innovation. With this new investment, the company is poised to:Advance the Spec platform to deliver increased visibility and control over attack detection and exploit remediationExpand its threat labs, the R&D powerhouse that deconstructs the tools and tactics used by modern attackers and develop countermeasures that neutralize their impactCo-develop specialized products with partners that resolve the fraud problems that customers cannot fix with single point solutions"I'm excited about our continued partnership with SignalFire, who led this funding round," said Spec co-founder and CEO Nate Kharrl. "The firm's deep expertise in cybersecurity and AI at enterprise scale is a perfect match for our mission

PR Newswire
May 1st, 2023
Atdata Enters Strategic Partnership With Spec

AtData, today announced it has entered a strategic partnership with Spec. AtData's email intelligence data integrates with Spec's Trust Cloud platform to help customers stop fraud in its tracks.DEDHAM, Mass., May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AtData, The Email Address Experts®, today announced it has entered a strategic without a need for engineering resources.SpecAtData provides Spec's customers with access to the most trusted email-centric fraud solution in the industry based on over 20 years of historical data, enabling businesses to identify malicious users hiding behind an email address. Spec's clients can us AtData to identify good and bad consumer behavior at the point of account creation, point of sale, and during account management, which helps them to prevent fraud downstream, alleviate transactional fraud, and detect account take-overs."AtData is thrilled to be partnering with Spec. Spec has built an incredibly powerful platform to fight fraud, and we have the dataset to help fuel it. Clients can put in their desired fraud detection processes at any point in the customer journey without a line of code. It's a win/win scenario for digital trust and safety teams everywhere." - Phil Davis, Chief Business Officer, AtDataPartnershipAtData aims to help Spec in its mission to empower businesses to outpace fraudsters and reward their users with instant trust

MarTech Series
Jan 10th, 2023
Spec Secures Both Soc 2 Type Ii And Pci Dss Level 1 Certification, Embracing Their Commitment To The Security Of Their Customers

Spec’s attainment of these coveted and hard to obtain certifications support the Trust Cloud’s ability to provide enterprises with a journey-time orchestration platform that delivers secure, powerful customer experiences.Spec, the company behind the no-code Trust Cloud, announced that their platform has attained both SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS Level 1 certification.The SOC 2 Type II report confirms that Spec adheres to the five Trust Services criteria: Security, Availability, Process Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy. In addition, Spec received its compliance for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 Certification. PCI DSS is a set of security requirements established by the PCI SSC to ensure protection of online payment forms and sensitive cardholder data. PCI DSS Level 1 Certification is the highest compliance level, ensuring the highest level of security.Marketing Technology News: 2023 … Will It Really Be Any Different? Yes, Yes It Will.External review of our platform by SOC 2 and PCI DSS auditors is one of the ways we embrace our commitment to the security, availability, and privacy our customers require.Spec’s Trust Cloud is shaping and optimizing customer experiences and core commercial flows, meaning it’s impossible to over-emphasize the importance of security on their platform. As hacks and data breaches continue to make headlines, no-code platforms must take important steps to secure themselves — and their customers — from modern threats. Spec’s attainment of these coveted and hard to obtain certifications support the Trust Cloud’s ability to provide enterprises with a trust platform that delivers secure, powerful customer experiences.“Security is our top priority at Spec

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