Security Engineer
Description For Security Engineer
EarnIn, a pioneer in earned wage access, is revolutionizing financial flexibility for those living paycheck to paycheck. Backed by prestigious investors like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, and Ribbit Capital, we're on a mission to build products that allow our community members to access their earnings in real-time, without mandatory fees or interest rates.
We're seeking a Security Engineer to join our growing Information Security organization. This role combines technical expertise with strategic thinking, requiring someone who can monitor and respond to security threats while implementing robust security measures across our infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with AWS, security automation, and modern security tools.
The position offers a unique opportunity to work with a diverse team in our Mexico City office or remotely, contributing to a mission-driven fintech company that's making a real difference in people's lives. You'll be part of implementing and maintaining security measures that protect our users' financial well-being, working with cutting-edge technologies and collaborating across teams.
We offer competitive benefits including healthcare, development opportunities, and the chance to work with an experienced leadership team. This role is perfect for someone who combines technical security expertise with a collaborative approach and wants to make a meaningful impact in financial technology.
Responsibilities For Security Engineer
- Monitor active threats, analyze them and come up with a remediation plan
- Monitor, Audit, Detect and Remediate critical Security exposures in Infrastructure
- Respond to security incidents and manage end-to-end incident response lifecycle
- Implement security technical and process improvements
- Implement automation for security tasks
- Work cross functionally with engineering teams to architect secure solutions
- Evaluate, test, implement and support third party security tools
Requirements For Security Engineer
- MS or Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent desired
- 3+ Years of industry experience
- General AWS experience
- Knowledge in Python (preferred)
- Threat/Intrusion Detection, Vulnerability Management, & remediation techniques
- Security orchestration, automation and response experience
- Experience with enterprise access solutions
- Experience with endpoint zero trust and DLP solutions
- Experience in the financial services industry preferred
Benefits For Security Engineer
- Healthcare
- Internet/cell phone reimbursement
- Learning and development stipend
- Travel opportunities to Palo Alto HQ
