Security Engineer, Beacon Platform
Developer platform for capital markets
Open for applications
Developer platform for capital markets
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To supercharge developer productivity, enabling innovative financial services firms to get more value out of their R&D.
Role
Who you are
- Good understanding of systems, cloud and software security
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in systems and software engineering
- Intimately familiar with Linux, comfortable with orchestration runtimes
- At home with Agile development, DevOps mentality and Continuous Delivery
- Happy with Python and Go, but always ready to pick up the right tool for the job
- Ability to work in a creative, fast-paced environment
- Constant drive for usability
- A degree in CS is preferable, but not strictly necessary
Desirable
- Solid Software Engineering skills
- Experience in securing software and its development
- Familiarity with cloud pentesting
- You don't impose on others - you enable them
- Pragmatism and humility
- You know when to roll up your sleeves (and when not)
- Personal experience on what engineering-first approach feels like
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer with a development background to join Beacon's Security Team.
- You get to work alongside our Core and Platform teams, and apply their domain principles while cementing security of Beacon Platform as just another baseline feature
- Apply solid engineering and automation practices to ensure security is an integral part of Beacon’s development workflow
- Build software and tooling to continuously improve security everywhere at Beacon
- Infuse the expectation of secure-by-default into everything you come in contact with
- Harden our stack and make the process visible for all of our users
- Share your knowledge, help and mentor others, and allow them to rely on themselves
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Born from its founders' decades of collective experience, Beacon Platform is a a next-generation, cloud-native, quant development platform that allows users to make the best of the custom risk management and trading applications they deploy and use on a daily basis.
The platform promises to make firms more agile. It does so by boosting developer productivity, increasing the return-on-investment of research and development efforts. Users are able to build apps in mere days (through rapid prototyping tools), allowing them to spend more time otherwise generating business value.
Past funding has been put to expanding Beacon's workforce, particularly in engineering and sales, and scaling across markets in new locations. The integration of the platform by Blackstone, a global alternative asset manager, was a key moment for the company. And it will need to continue such endeavours if it's to stay ahead of the curve.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2021
$56m
SERIES C
Jan 2020
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $96.5m
Company benefits
- A hybrid work environment that accommodates personal time and unique working arrangements
- Paid holidays, sick days, and a generous PTO policy (including days off for volunteering)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Performance-based bonuses
- 401(k) plan and other national retirement savings plans
- Professional development programs
Company values
- Clients First
- Integrity
- Technical Excellence
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Respect
- Empowering our Employees
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Mark Higgins
(Co-Founder & Chief Analytics Officer)Previously VP at Goldman Sachs and a Managing Director at JP Morgan.
Kirat Singh
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Strategy roles at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and as a Managing Director for Bank of America.
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