Senior Security Engineer
San Mateo, CA / San Francisco, CA / Roseville, CA - HQ / Irvine, CA / Austin, TX / Lehi, UT / Plano, TX / Remote, US / West Palm Beach, FL
Software Engineering – Security /
Full Time /
Hybrid
About GoodLeap:
GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.
GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.
Position Summary
The GoodLeap security team is responsible for both business enablement and safeguarding the organization’s information assets; it is involved in virtually all aspects of the business, from product safety and resilience, to building security paved roads, customer, partner, and regulatory trust, managing technology governance and compliance, and ensuring the privacy, and safety of GoodLeap’s customers, partners, and employees information.
The senior security engineer role provides a unique opportunity to shape the security and resilience of GoodLeap corporate systems, services, and operational processes. In this role, you will work closely with product, engineering, IT, and business teams within GoodLeap, acting as the key individual with both the authority and responsibility to ensure the safety and resilience of enterprise systems, products, and services.
Your oversight will encompass:
- Enterprise systems:Identifying potential misuse and abuse cases, proposing solutions to address these scenarios, and identifying product features, configuration settings, and/or mitigating or compensating controls to meet resilience requirements.
- Build-time controls: Managing applications/products security controls and activities during development.
- Runtime controls: Overseeing security measures at runtime, from prevention to detection and response.
Additionally, you will be involved with aspects of internally built products and represent all areas of security, spanning governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) to security monitoring, for a number of departments/teams. You will also have the authority and ability to involve other security team members as needed.
While you will take on multiple responsibilities—from advisor to builder and beyond—your primary focus will be designing and building security patterns and practices for services and processes, and fostering strong relationships with product, business, and engineering.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead, participate in, and contribute to partnerships between security, IT, General & Administrative teams, engineering, product, and operations teams to build, orchestrate, and automate security controls and services in GoodLeap enterprise systems, products, services, and operational processes.
- Identify potential misuse and abuse cases in enterprise systems, propose solutions to address these scenarios, and identify product features, configuration settings, and/or mitigating or compensating controls to meet resilience requirements.
- Support or develop components of the security analytics platform.
- Contribute to investigations, threat hunting, and incident response activities in a supporting role. Collaborate with the monitoring and response team to create playbooks for specific incident response scenarios related to the products and services you oversee. These investigations, incidents, and playbooks may address security, fraud, privacy, resilience, and related concerns.
- Contribute to investigations, threat hunting, and incident response activities in a supporting role. Collaborate with the monitoring and response team to create playbooks for specific incident response scenarios related to the products and services you oversee. These investigations, incidents, and playbooks may address security, fraud, privacy, resilience, and related concerns.
- Support the security operations team with the vulnerability management lifecycle for products and services under your purview.
- Ensure technical alignment for the products and services you oversee with team initiatives, including GRC, security operations, and monitoring and response activities.
Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Strong communicator with the ability to lead technical architecture discussions, drive technical decisions, and effectively communicate with non-technical audiences.
- Expertise in agile product lifecycles. Ideally, you have experience in a product manager or engineering manager role and understand how SaaS products (B2B, B2B2C, and B2C) are built, including roadmap planning and feature and defect prioritization.
- Experience with threat modeling methodologies, with the ability to create efficient and scalable approaches to conducting such assessments.
- Familiarity with AWS services, including KMS, SST, Container Registry, ELBs, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudTrail, and IAM (knowledge of GCP and/or Azure is a plus).
- Proven ability to establish credibility and build trust with business, engineers, and operational staff; confident yet humble.
- Hands-on experience with managing security for core enterprise systems, e.g., ERP, HCM, Salesforce, etc.
- Strong understanding of both human and non-human identity management and common enterprise and consumer authentication standards and use cases.
- Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools, including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK; GitHub and GitHub Actions; artifact management; and secrets management tools like Doppler and HashiCorp Vault.
- Passionate about learning new technologies. While you're not expected to know everything, you should demonstrate a willingness and ability to learn as needed.
- Prior experience interfacing and supporting with G&A teams, internal product teams, and other cross-functional areas.
- Proficiency in writing automation scripts in multiple languages, with prior experience automating security processes in cloud or SaaS environments.
- Experience engaging with vendors in design partnerships.
- Experience overseeing vulnerability and threat management at the platform and application levels.
- Familiarity with penetration testing and red team exercises, including manual verification, exploitation, and lateral movement.
- Ability to balance a high-level view of security strategy with attention to detail, ensuring thorough and effective execution.
$146,000 - $170,000 a year
In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus.
Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions:
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other managers related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and other skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.
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