Staff Product Security Engineer, Credit Karma
Office located in Oakland, CA
Free credit and financial management platform
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Free credit and financial management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Oakland, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Credit Karma's mission is to empower each and every one of its members with the knowledge, tips, and tools they need to turn their financial dreams into a reality.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years’ experience designing and leading large security architectural efforts for Product Security, including hands-on contributions to complex distributed code bases
- Broad expertise with modern technology stacks and architectural patterns including API design, Database, microservices, cloud and modern online and offline data processing techniques
- Experience driving security programs like Data Security, API Security and Zero trust architecture
- Experience designing and building for scale, resilience and operational excellence
- Excellent communication skills: demonstrated ability to present to all levels of leadership, including executives
- Seasoned and ambidextrous leadership - able to balance short and long term goals, inspire and coach
- BS/MS in computer science, or equivalent work experience
Desirable
- Expertise in FinTech and how technology can be used to solve problems
- Strong background in Software development and good understanding of software design principles
- Boundaryless leadership experience: the ability to influence and drive alignment across organizational boundaries and across disciplines
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Security Engineer, you will join the Product Security team at Credit Karma and play a critical role in designing and influencing the technical strategy of Credit Karma’s Product Security Team
- You’ll have the opportunity to influence the security posture of our products and services
- You will collaborate across all engineering teams and product development organizations, and be a trusted advisor to senior and executive leadership
- Drive a holistic security architectural and technical strategy across a number of interdependent engineering teams, architects, systems and offerings
- Partner closely with senior product leadership to continuously connect business outcomes to platform technical strategy
- Drive system and platform thinking within development teams
- Influence and shape the frameworks, abstractions, and patterns used by product development teams
- Be the technical expert, researching, evaluating, and implementing state-of-the-art security technologies (open source, third party)
- Apply strong technical documentation and presentation skills to communicate architectural and design options at all levels, including to executive leadership
- Act as an industry thought leader, continuing to share Intuit’s growth story as one of the top SaaS, data-driven, and cloud deployed companies on the web
- Grow a strong security culture - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent. Talent steward for the security organization, mentor rising leaders
- Developing and communicating vision, strategy, and roadmap for the capabilities you own
- Build a mitigation plan for addressing cyber security risks
- Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Collaborating with the architecture team to ensure those technical solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure
- Collaborating across the organization to align technical strategy and to ensure interoperability of systems
- Evaluating and selecting best fit technologies, frameworks, and tools to support the Credit Karma’s Cybersecurity goals
- Drive the adoption of secure coding and secure testing practices across Credit Karma
- Mentoring and growing engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning
- Studying emerging technologies, industry trends, and advancements in security architecture and in fintech
Our take
CreditKarma is a popular multinational personal finance company offering free services like credit reports, credit checks, and financial advice to its users. It is the United States’ largest free credit monitoring service, and it was bought by Intuit in 2020 in a deal valued at over $8 billion.
CreditKarma has been wise to aggressively target lower-income users and those in need of credit help. CreditKarma is able to score users with “thin” credit files, approximately 62 million Americans. Plus, in keeping its services entirely free it beats out its closest competitor Credit Sesame, who reserves some of its services for premium customers.
During the first fiscal quarter of 2022, Credit Karma contributed $418 million in revenue to Intuit. That’s compared to just $144 million and $316 million in its first two quarters as part of Intuit. However, 2023 has seen a decline in revenue due to downturns for personal, home and auto loans thanks to a strain on the global economy. Regardless, Credit Karma continues to perform strongly.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2015
$175m
SERIES D
Sep 2014
$75m
SERIES C
Total funding: $368m
Company benefits
- Extensive health plans
- Wellness and self-care reimbursement
- Paid leave for new parents
- Professional development
- Continuous learning courses
- Equal pay
- Retirement plan
- Equity incentives
Company values
- Helpfulness
- Ownership
- Progress
- Empathy
Company HQ
Chinatown, Oakland, CA
Articles
Leadership
Kenneth Lin
(CEO)Kenneth studied at Boston University before working as a Partners First Analyst, as well as working at FairMarket, Upromise, and founding Adrenaline Group. He left E-LOAN in July 2006 to co-found Credit Karma in March 2007, alongside a Fellowship at The Aspen Institute.
Nichole Mustard
(CRO)Having studied at Miami University, Nichole worked for almost 5 years at Complete as a Financial Services Sales Director. She left this role to co-found Credit Karma in 2007, serving initially as VP of Business Development and since March 2014 as CRO.
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