Nclusion · 4 months ago
Founding Security Engineer
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $260K/yr
6+ years expNclusion is on a mission to provide traditional financial services to 1.5 billion people worldwide without access today. As a Security Engineer, you will design secure systems, reduce risk, and enhance trust across various platforms including mobile apps and backend services.
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Responsibilities
Design & review secure architectures for login/auth flows, payments, KMS/HSM usage, card/device interactions, and data protections
Threat model features (web, mobile, backend, hardware) and turn risks into pragmatic controls, test cases, and guardrails
Build security automations (SAST/SCA, CI policy gates, IaC validation, secret scanning, SBOM/provenance, dependency hygiene)
Harden cloud/infra on GCP: identity boundaries, network segmentation, workload identity, service accounts, least privilege, secrets
Ship observability for trust: structured logs, audit trails, detection hooks, incident runbooks, and post-incident improvements
Own incident response drills with engineering; triage, contain, learn; drive reliability & fraud-prevention signals into products
Partner on compliance (PCI-DSS/SOC2/ISO): help define scope, automate evidence, and keep “secure by design” as the default
Enable teams with secure patterns, library wrappers, and “paved roads” (auth clients, tokenization, crypto APIs, KMS helpers)
Contribute across the stack (TypeScript/Node/React-Native; Terraform; container/K8s) and collaborate with hardware/firmware when needed
Qualification
Required
B.S. in Computer Science or a related field
6+ years of experience in Security Engineering
Familiarity with payments, PCI concepts, etc
PCI-DSS/SOC2/ISO27001 participation, evidence automation, and SDLC governance
Experience with cryptography & key management (KMS/HSM, tokenization, envelope encryption)
Experience supply-chain security (SBOM, Sigstore/cosign, SLSA); mobile security (React-Native)
Experience with detection engineering (SIEM/OTel), incident response/forensics, red/purple teaming
Preferred
Interest or experience in hardware/embedded security (smart cards, POS, secure elements)
Fluent technical writing; empathy for users and regulators; bias to action is a plus
Company
Nclusion
Nclusion offers financial services for unbanked individuals, supporting financial independence and inclusion.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Eric Lange
Chief Technology Officer
Jean-François S.
Chief Operating Officer
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