Senior Security Engineer, Product

About Persona

Persona is the configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world. Verifying individuals and organizations is harder — but more important — than ever, with AI enabling fraudsters to launch sophisticated accounts at scale and regulations evolving rapidly.

We’ve built Persona to support practically every use case and industry — that’s why we’re able to serve a wide range of leading companies. For example, Instacart relies on Persona to verify shoppers who onboard onto their platform before delivering groceries to your doorstep. Meanwhile, OpenAI relies on Persona to keep bad actors out, protecting one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms from large-scale abuse in a time when AI is reshaping the way we work and live.

We’re growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join us!

About the Role

We're building something special here at Persona, and our Security Team is a big part of that.  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.

Your job? 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.

What you'll do at Persona

• 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

What you'll bring to Persona

• 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.

• Experience. 2+ years of software engineering, 2+ years of product security at a fast-moving technology company.

Nice to have

• Experience securing a large Ruby on Rails application.

Full-time Employee Benefits and Perks

For full-time employees (excluding internship and contractor opportunities), Persona offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipend, wellness benefits, among others. While we believe competitive compensation and benefits are a critical aspect of you deciding to join us, we do hope you consider why our core values and culture are right for you. If you’d like to better understand what it’s like working at Persona, feel free to check out our reviews on Glassdoor.