Senior Application Security Engineer

Posted 8 Days Ago
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San Francisco
Senior level
The Role
You are an application security expert with an engineering background, responsible for building security into our SDLC, managing bug bounty program, enforcing security policies, and evangelizing security best practices. You will partner with engineering to threat model new services and infrastructure.
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About the Role

You are an application security expert with an engineering background and a knack for working collaboratively with the engineering teams. You communicate clearly, present reasonable security tradeoffs to the business, and work to create real world practical solutions that reduce our security risk.

We're a small dedicated team that’s always thinking of innovative ways to tackle hard security problems. We take on ambitious projects that have a huge impact on our members and build a strong security culture for our company. The team encourages talking about what problems we are solving for, the methods and celebrating our accomplishments in public blogs and at conferences. If these are things that resonate with the way you work, we'd love to hear from you.

For Colorado based roles: In accordance with applicable law, this role has an annual starting salary of $164,500 plus bonus, a competitive equity package, and benefits (see below). The actual pay may be higher depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

  • Build security into our SDLC, manage our bug bounty program, manage 3rd party penetration tests, etc
  • Build automation and monitoring to enforce security policies and detect threats
  • Evangelize security best practices across the company
  • Build safe-by-default guardrails for engineers to use
  • Present findings and explain impact and solutions to any level of leadership and other engineers
  • Partner with engineering to threat model new services and infrastructure

To thrive in this role, you have

  • Subject-matter expert in web application security (required) and mobile application security (bonus)
  • You are hands-on, you write software, and you can clearly articulate prioritized, actionable security work for Engineering 
  • Have demonstrable history in improving the security posture at your previous companies through high impact cross functional projects. 
  • Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Go (golang) experience is a plus
  • AWS experience is a plus

A little about Chime

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances. 

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

What we offer

  • 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
  • ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
  • 📝  Quarterly stipend to spruce up your home office 
  • 🏝  Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days 
  • 🖥  Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
  • 💚  A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive, teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members, and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice. 

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Top Skills

AWS
Go
Ruby

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