Senior Platform Security Engineer, Affirm
$169-240k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Equity and ESPP
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$169-240k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Equity and ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal employee will have extensive experience developing tooling and infrastructure used for securing technical resources as part of a larger team
- A proven track record of tackling difficult and ambiguous challenges and driving them to success
- Capable of shifting focus in a complex, ever changing environment to balance between security risks and business agility
- Strong in multiple domains including infrastructure operations (e.g. networking, systems, storage), Corporate IT, able to make technical trade-offs between short versus long term security business decisions
- Hands-on experience deploying infrastructure within a Kubernetes environment
- Experience developing and deploying cloud services using Terraform
- Understanding of methods and systems used for auditing usage and access to AWS cloud services
- Experience managing security tooling, including Wiz, Auditbeat, Crowdstrike Falcon EDR, AWS System Manager Agent, or similar
- BS degree in related field or equivalent experience. MS degree in a related field or equivalent experience is a plus
What the job involves
- The Security team posture increases security and reduces risk while securely enabling access to information for those who need it
- The candidate will quickly come up to speed with current systems and processes, identify and develop improvements, and implement solutions used by experienced software and infrastructure engineers across the organization
- We protect and secure Affirm’s production infrastructure while balancing risk to enable business growth
- We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer in the Enterprise Security team, primarily supporting the Infrastructure and Platform Security organization focusing on vulnerability management, cloud security, perimeter and network security, and hardening of critical environments
- We work closely with corporate/workforce security, incident response, security operations, identity and access systems and partner with infrastructure engineering teams that build, operate and manage compute, storage, caching and security systems at scale
- You will partner with the right teams to solve complex security problems and help design solutions that are aligned with broader organizational goals
- Drive infrastructure, network and perimeter security initiatives for hardening and segmentation
- Work across multiple engineering functions and organizations to advocate for security practices
- Influence, align and implement security features across engineering teams
- Demonstrate expertise across various domains to design and develop scalable solutions
- Configure and implement cloud security services, including identity and access management, detective controls, infrastructure protection, and data protection
- Specify, standardize, configure, and validate access controls across a wide range of cloud services. Integrate security tooling into existing infrastructure
- Develop security software configurations and improve tool functionality over time. Implement security controls across Affirm’s data infrastructure, including S3, DynamoDB, RDS, and Snowflake
- Decompose large, cross-team projects into individual tasks. Manage scope across teams and drive toward project closure
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boasting over 21M consumers and 337,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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