Senior Security Engineer San Francisco, CA

Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an all in one card issuer processor and program management platform. We give digital-first organizations the flexibility to easily issue and process payment cards that accelerate business growth and profitability.

We’ve raised $104M+ and grown our team to 120+ employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25+ US states.

Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we’re helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don’t exist yet.

We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we’re unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to lead the overall security efforts at Highnote. It's an opportunity to take all your prior security experience and learnings, work with engineering leadership and various teams to improve security, and most importantly, be an evangelist for security across the company. Ideal candidates should have similar experience with early-stage companies.

What you’ll be doing

Refine and execute the overall security strategy

Drive to and maintain security policies and processes

Own various compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, SOC1 / 2, and GDPR

Own and drive application and web security initiatives, ensuring industry best practices

Serve as a security consultant in design discussions and reviews

Drive secure coding and SDLC initiatives

Manage penetration testing efforts and bug bounty programs

Evaluate various technologies for improving security defenses and monitoring

Integrate security controls across cloud-native and third-party tools

Own infrastructure and vendor security audits

Work with the infrastructure team on securing GCP, AWS, and On-Premise Colos

Implementing security best practices across Kubernetes and Istio

Own security incident response and related systems

What we are looking for

7+ years of experience in information security space

Experience in leading the overall security efforts

Experience with one or more scripting / programming languages

Experience with cloud platforms, such as GCP or AWS

Knowledge of cryptography, PKI, TLS, etc

Familiarity with static and dynamic code analysis tools

Experience with APIs

Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced and cross-functional environment

Experience in the financial payments technology space

Experience with SpringBoot, Kubernetes and Istio

Experience with big data technologies, such as BigQuery

Why Highnote?

We’re a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization.

We’re a team of payments obsessed individuals. While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don’t. We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees.

We’re small on hierarchy and big on growth. We’re a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity.

We’re backed by Oak HC / FT, Costanoa Ventures, and XYZ Ventures. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).

Flexible Paid Time Off

401k program

Up to 16 weeks off for Maternity leave + up to 6 weeks of Paternity leave

Equity in Highnote

Stipend to build out your home office; internet and phone reimbursement

At Highnote we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential based. Our compensation packages are competitive based on robust market research and are a combination of a cash salary, equity, and benefits. In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual salary range for applicants is $170,000-$230,000.

Please note that positions located in San Francisco are hybrid and include core working days of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office. We provide flexible work options based on distance from our downtown SF office. Highnote believes in the power of face-to-face, personal connection. As a result, we prioritize in-person candidates.

Highnote is a diverse and inclusive company committed to growing a diverse and inclusive team. We invite people from all backgrounds and identities to apply. We do not discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by US federal state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. Additionally, we encourage everyone to share which pronouns you wish for us to use when addressing you (i.e. : she / her, he / him, they / them, etc).

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