Staff Software Engineer, Security

Super.com

66d • $170,000 - $250,000

About The Position

We're looking for a Staff level Security Engineer to join our Security & Privacy team. You'll act as a company-wide subject matter expert and key advocate for the security of our product. Along with executing individually, you'll directly manage and mentor a small group of engineers. You'll operate within an Agile team, collaborate with engineering and IT leadership to influence strategy, and be directly accountable for meaningfully improving the security of our product. You’ll operate with significant autonomy when setting direction and executing on work. You'll act as a technical mentor across the engineering organization to advance the company's security skills. This role is primarily a mix of strategic and hands-on work, with some people management responsibility, and reports to the Senior Director of Infrastructure within the Engineering department, and collaborates closely with the Head of IT.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in hands-on, senior, and highly autonomous security roles embedded in an engineering or software development related department.
• Hands-on experience securing web applications, designing secure solutions, and providing meaningful security feedback to engineering design documentation and code reviews.
• Have contributed meaningfully to company-level security strategy and owned security programs end-to-end.
• Desire to directly manage and mentor a small group (1-3) of security software engineers.
• Have played a significant role in hiring for security professionals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with functional leaders, product management, engineers, IT, and non-technical business staff.
• Independently executed on a broad range of security initiatives spanning infrastructure security, application security, and automating business controls.

Nice To Haves

• Bug Bounty or other Red-Team vulnerability hunting finds.
• Recently worked at a fast-paced startup, scaleup, or B2C app-first company.
• Deep familiarity with Datadog APM or other application insight tools.
• Experience with our specific stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Python + FastAPI, React, Postgres, Kafka, Redis.
• Experience with the fintech industry and its specific threats and regulations.
• Experience acting as a thought leader regarding common IT Security concepts such as endpoint protection, SIEM best practices, and insider threat detection/prevention.

Responsibilities

• Driving accountability and ownership of application security concerns company-wide, ensuring the resolution of findings, and meeting strategic objectives.
• Directly manage 1-2 software security engineers including security interns.
• Identify, scope, prioritize, and often individually execute on high-impact security work.
• Mentor and unblock members of your team and core product software engineers outside the team.
• Architect complex security solutions and contribute to our long term security roadmap.
• Deliver continuous business value through AppSec, DevSecOps and other security project work.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for security questions and issues, owning the process of responding to and ensuring the remediation of security-related inquiries and incidents.
• Monitor industry trends and major security developments, ensuring we're quick to respond.

Benefits

• Remote-First Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the world and choose the hours that suit you best.
• Time to Recharge: Enjoy unlimited PTO, company-wide recharge days, and annual team offsites.
• Everyday Perks: Weekly UberEats credits and travel discounts on SuperTravel.
• Family-Friendly Benefits: Generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan.
• Comprehensive Compensation: Competitive salary, equity options, and top-tier benefits starting on day one.
• Investing in You: Access to wellness budgets, personal development funds, and team-level learning resources.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees