Engineering Manager, Float
Security Engineering
Offers equity
1-3 days a week in office
Corporate cards and smart spend management software
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Corporate cards and smart spend management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
1-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify spending so companies and teams can focus on growing their business.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading security engineering teams with a strong focus on Application Security and DevSecOps, and exposure to infrastructure and operational security
- Strong technical depth in AWS security, IAM, network design, CI/CD hardening, and cloud-native architectures
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, cloud posture tooling, and vulnerability management workflows
- Deep understanding of secure software development practices and common application-layer risks (e.g., OWASP Top 10)
- Familiarity with PCI DSS 4.0, SOC 2, and automating evidence or control enforcement
- Experience with identity platforms such as Auth0, Okta, and OIDC
- Proficiency in scripting (Python preferred) for automation, metrics, and integrations
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience in fintech, payments, or other correctness-critical domains is strongly preferred but not required
- You’ll Be Great in This Role If You:
- Take ownership and enjoy building systems, teams, and scalable processes from the ground up
- Communicate complex security concepts clearly and pragmatically
- Balance deep technical execution with strategic thinking
- Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving environments
- Enjoy coaching and elevating engineers
- Prioritize ruthlessly and execute with focus
- Use automation wherever possible to reduce manual work
- At Float, you’ll thrive if you’re bold, curious, and eager to make a real impact. We're building something special—and having a lot of fun along the way. If you’re excited to build, grow, and win together, we’d love to meet you
What the job involves
- Security is foundational to earning and keeping customer trust
- As the Security Engineering Manager, you will lead Float’s security engineering function with a primary focus on Application Security and DevSecOps, while partnering closely with Infrastructure, IT, and Operations teams on broader security outcomes
- You will guide a technical, high-impact team that enables Float to ship new financial features quickly, safely, and with confidence by embedding secure-by-default practices into engineering workflows
- This role blends people leadership, hands-on security engineering, and architectural decision-making in a fast-moving fintech environment
- This is a hands-on role
- You should expect to spend approximately 60% of your time on direct technical contribution, especially as the security function continues to mature, with the remaining time focused on coaching, strategy, and cross-functional leadership
- Leadership & Strategy
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing security engineering team with a strong emphasis on Application Security and DevSecOps
- Develop and execute the security engineering roadmap, balancing long-term architecture with near-term delivery needs
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to ensure security is integrated into planning, design, and execution
- Security Engineering Responsibilities
- As the Security Engineering Manager, you will drive and mature Float’s application and cloud security posture, with a strong emphasis on secure SDLC and CI/CD practices, while collaborating closely across infrastructure and operational security
- Own and enhance CI/CD and developer-workflow security, including OIDC signing, pipeline hardening, artifact integrity, secret distribution, and container security
- Define secure architecture patterns and baseline configurations for cloud services, backend systems, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Build scalable, measurable controls that enforce least privilege and prevent misconfigurations
- Embed secure SDLC practices across engineering through automated code scanning, dependency scanning, secrets management, and threat modeling
- Develop secure patterns for authentication, authorization, API design, and sensitive data handling
- Support engineers in evaluating high-risk features and designing effective mitigation strategies
- Partner with Infrastructure and Operations teams to mature detection and response capabilities, including alerting, logging, tuning, and automation
- Lead incident response readiness through simulations, playbooks, and post-incident improvements
- Automate vulnerability management, cloud posture monitoring, and compliance evidence collection for SOC 2 and PCI DSS 4.0
- Partner with IT to maintain strong endpoint, identity, and device-trust baselines across the organization
- Support third-party risk management efforts as they relate to application and platform security
- You’ll lead with empathy, clarity, and ownership—core to how we operate at Float. You’ll foster a culture where security engineers feel empowered to make decisions, challenge assumptions, and take pride in their impact
- Most importantly, you’ll ensure security is viewed not as a gate, but as an enabler—helping teams move fast while managing risk intelligently
Our take
Traditional finance and internal expense processes are inefficient for companies. Spending on personal credit cards and filing receipts for reimbursement is a convoluted and complicated business practise. There needs to be a digital alternative to the historically laborious process of managing employee expenses.
Float is a fintech solution, built to simplify the inefficient internal expense processes. Rather than following the traditional method of spending on personal/corporate cards, filing expenses, and waiting for reimbursement - Float works by utilising technology that enables managers to allocate funds and approve expenses before purchases are made. The company also supports companies operating with remote workforces.
As the business world moves to become more international, companies will look to make their business spending as simple as possible. Float aims to develop its technology and cater to the challenge of company spending. It's $50 million C in credit financing will go some way to achieving its aims, all whilst expanding its business significantly.
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Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2025
$50.9m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$26.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $83.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance for employees
- Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development
- Flexible vacation time
- Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Rob Khazzam
(Co-founder & CEO)Previously worked at Uber for 5 years in international expansion and General Management in Eastern Europe and Canada. Prior to this they worked at a market private equity fund in Toronto.
Griffin Keglevich
(Co-founder)Previous Chief Engineer at Float, responsible for shipping and payments, previously worked in software engineering at KPMG and Shopify.
Ruslan Nikolaev
(Co-founder)Previous experience at WATonomous and then Uber as a Perception Engineer and at Shopify as a Data Scientist.
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