Staff Software Engineer, Security

Guideline is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Security to join our Security team. You will join our distributed team of remote employees. As the first software engineer on our security team, you will be able to lead and own security, privacy, and fraud work across Guideline. You will be a partner to other engineering teams, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to build safe and secure products and infrastructure.

The Team

The Security team at Guideline is responsible for ensuring that Guideline’s employees, customers, data, and infrastructure are safe and secure. A few of the areas we are currently focused on to achieve this goal includes product security, privacy, cloud security, fraud, identity and access management, and secure defaults for engineering.

We think about reducing risk at Guideline by building platforms that everyone at the company can use, creating an environment where everyone is a partner with security. This includes platforms security uses like our vulnerability management platform or tooling to manage fraud, and platforms our partners use like our third party risk platform or data encryption framework for engineering.

What You Will Work On

• Design, build, and maintain the security team’s technical infrastructure including our vulnerability management platform and SIEM.
• Consult with engineering and product teams, to help them upgrade existing security primitives around things like data encryption, authentication, and fraud detection.
• Identify patterns across our application that would benefit from a unified secure by default framework, and then work with teams to adopt said framework.
• Consult with our partners like legal on privacy risks, and compliance on fraud risks to develop technical controls to mitigate said risks.
• Contribute to our centralized engineering automation platform to add security improvements like auditing, improved just in time access flows, and integrations with existing engineering workflows on things like Github and Slack.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems
• Experience working on high availability security services like authentication, data encryption, or fraud platforms.
• Familiarity with mature engineering-centric security programs like vulnerability management or security architecture reviews. 
• Track record of building resilient and maintainable systems in complicated business domains at scale
• Expert knowledge of a server-side language such as Ruby, Python, or Node
• Comfortable with ambiguity; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done and setting appropriate deadlines and milestones to achieve business objectives

More about Guideline

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Compensation

At Guideline, we believe compensation should be fair and equitable. We take a data-driven approach to set our compensation bands; the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding our tier locations.

• Metro+:
  The base salary range for this position is $183,500 - $246,500 annually.
• Metro:
  The base salary range for this position is $171,500 - $231,800 annually.
• National: 
  The base salary range for this position is $158,000 - $215,600 annually.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to receive equity in the form of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs). 

At Guideline, base salary is just one component of the overall Total Rewards package offered to employees.  All employees are offered comprehensive benefits and perks to help support you and your family.

• Flexible time off in addition to company holidays — We observe the NYSE Holiday Calendar
• 401(k) with matching contributions — We use our own platform and match 100% of the first 3% contributed, and 50% of the next 2% (for a max employer contribution of 4%)
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance for employees and 70% coverage for dependents
• Opt-out credit if all three plans are waived
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Disability and life insurance options
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching through Modern Health, for employees and their dependents
• Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
• Annual learning and development stipend — We reimburse approved professional development expenses, up to $750 per employee per year.

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Additionally, Guideline participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

Guideline is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process can reach out to [email protected].

Guideline is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of our applicants. Please refer to Guideline's Privacy Policy for information about our privacy and security practices.

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