Product Security Engineer, Persona
$130-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$130-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- Communication and Collaboration skills. Ability to explain security topics clearly to non-technical business representatives. Drive to enable other engineers to ship securely
- Bias toward shipping. Improving our product quickly and continually is one of Persona’s greatest strengths. You should be excited about finding ways to integrate security into our product delivery processes without slowing things down
- Proactive approach to solving problems. We’re looking for someone that can tell us how to solve our problems, not someone who waits to be told how to solve problems
- Passion for security. You should be excited about keeping your skills and knowledge sharp, and sharing that with your peers and the rest of the company
Desirable
- 2+ years of software engineering, 2+ years of product security at a fast-moving technology company
- Experience securing a large Ruby on Rails application
What the job involves
- Our team is made up of veterans from industry leaders like Square and Dropbox, and we're looking for someone to join us in shipping innovative products quickly and securely
- Work with our engineering teams to make sure we're delivering rock-solid security for our customers and users
- As we grow fast (and we mean fast), you'll be key in managing the risks that come with that speed
- We're not just looking for someone to play defense - we want you to think ahead and outsmart the bad guys before they even know what hit them
- You'll get to work with the latest tech and come up with clever ways to keep our systems locked down tight
- Collaborate cross-functionally with our product teams to understand, manage, and mitigate the security risks associated with their work, while supporting their ability to ship quickly
- Build tools and processes for automating product security controls and monitoring at scale
- Support product security initiatives across our fast-growing engineering team
- Participate in the on-call rotation for the Security Team
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location, and behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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back within 2 weeks
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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"Everyone who I have met and worked with so far have been intelligent and welcoming, and I feel like I can dive in and ask for help from anyone at..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company values
- People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
- Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
- Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
- Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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