Senior Staff Engineer, SOC
About The Position
Blackhawk Network is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer, SOC to help defend its fintech platform against large-scale payment fraud, carding attacks, and other financially motivated threats. This highly technical, hands-on role focuses on offensive security assessments of transaction systems, authentication flows, and APIs, with an emphasis on automation and scalability. The work directly supports fraud defenses, detection strategy, and customer trust. The role also provides application security leadership across the software development lifecycle, supports security of AWS and cloud-native workloads, and partners with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to strengthen security maturity. The position offers hybrid flexibility, combining remote work with in-person collaboration at the Coppell, Texas office.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in application security, cloud security, or related fields.
- Strong background in secure coding practices, API security, and software architecture.
- Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, and fuzzing platforms.
- Solid understanding of AWS services, including IAM, Lambda, S3, and VPC, and AWS-native security tooling.
- Experience securing containerized and microservice-based environments.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and risk prioritization skills.
- Curiosity and adaptability in emerging technologies, and successful use of AI tools to enhance work, improve processes, or deliver measurable results.
- Successful completion of a background check and drug screen is required.
Nice To Haves
- Certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, or AWS Security Specialty.
- Familiarity with security standards and frameworks such as OWASP, NIST, and ISO 27001.
Responsibilities
- Embed security into requirements, design, development, and deployment phases of the SDLC.
- Define and promote secure coding practices across engineering teams.
- Perform security design reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments for applications, APIs, and microservices.
- Collaborate with cloud engineering teams to secure AWS environments using tools such as GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Macie, and AWS Config.
- Ensure application security controls extend into cloud-native workloads.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments using SAST, DAST, and software composition analysis (SCA).
- Analyze security findings, prioritize remediation, and track issues to resolution.
- Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies aligned with business needs.
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to raise security maturity.
- Mentor junior engineers and advocate for a security-first mindset.
- Perform offensive security assessments targeting transaction systems, authentication flows, and APIs, with a focus on automation and scalability.
Benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 12 paid holidays in 2026
- Sick pay accrual of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked
- Parental leave
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Accident and illness insurance
- Health and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- Wellness benefits
- Flexible time off for full-time employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
